SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On March 21, French American & International High School will celebrate the coming of spring with a day-long series of performances, artistic activities and presentations focusing on Igor Stravinsky's 1913 revolutionary ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring).

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Master Puppeteer Basil Twist will make his debut at The Broad Stage in Basil Twist's Petrushka.

By Patt Diroll Labor Day has come and gone. The white shoes should be stowed away; the social terriers have dug their bones out of the sand and another social whirl begins. The opening of the L.A. Opera is the traditional benchmark for the see-and-be-seen crowd.

By Anna Picard Even witty, cinematic sets can't inject life into a flat production that needs London's sulphurous streets to make the satire sing Classical The Rake's Progress Royal Opera House LONDON Blank Canvas 93 Feet East LONDON 'Ruin, Disaster, Shame!" The great choral cry of the Crowd of Respectable Citizens at the start of Act III of The Rake's Progress has never seemed so apposite.

Another opportunity missed. I refer to the recent Regent orchestral concert. Tchaik, as usual, Mozart as ever. Stravinsky's Apollo is a beautiful piece, but hardly unknown. One doesn't attend a lecture to hear what you know already. There is so much beautiful music out there.