Victor Herbert

By Debbie Manis, Orlando Sentinel The Melon Patch Players' Patchwork Productions will accept registration for its fall theater production, which begins Aug. 31, from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the theater, 311 N. 13th St.,...

The Elgin-centered U-46 district, the second largest in the state, is developing a proposal to use up to 5 acres of city land for growing …...

3 stars (out of 4) Bob Dylan arrived in New York at the age of 19 in 1961, and the evidence presented on “The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 -- The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964� (Columbia) suggests that he already knew the......

Among the fascinating examples of early music-industry advertising reproduced in "Selling Sounds," the most striking is a 1913 image that pairs a photograph of legendary tenor Enrico Caruso, costumed for "Aida," with one of his Victor Red Seal recordings....

Eleanor was born on Nov. 24, 1914, in Sharpsburg, Md., to the late Beulah Land Wilson and Victor Reichard Mumma.  She attended schools in Hagerstown and Sharpsburg, Md. She sang in the Episcopal Church Choir in Sharpsburg, and later sang in the Christ...

As Anne Arundel Community College celebrates its 50th anniversary, Opera AACC marks its own milestone as a company now in its 10th year. Founded by musician Douglas Brandt Byerly as artistic director, Opera AACC provides professional training for young...

The American Family Theater will bring Babes in Toyland at 2 p.m. Sunday to the Arcadia Theater, 1418 Graham Ave., Windber, for the annual holiday show. Frank Cunsolo, the executive director and chair of the Arcadia Board of Directors said that the...

American Family Theater's Babes in Toyland begins with a cast of fairy tale characters coming to life, one by one, and telling their stories via dance in an epic opening sequence. There's Jack, Jill, Barnaby, Mary, Widow Piper and the toy soldiers, to...

If real-life holiday drama has you down — or you simply want to take a break from the fun-but-hectic festivities and relax — we’ve got a list that you can check twice, filled with shows both naughty and nice. Traditional to irreverent,...

Sunday, Dec. 4 'Home for the Holidays' The Brooks Tegler Army Air Force Big Band performs holiday classics at 7 p.m. at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase St. in Annapolis. Tickets are $28; $23 for hall members. Information: 410-280-5640 or...

Robert Wright, a Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist whose songwriting collaboration with George "Chet" Forrest included the hit Broadway musicals "Song of Norway," "Kismet" and "Grand Hotel," has died. He was 90. Wright, a three-time Oscar nominee,...

Allan Jones, the boyishly good-looking lyric tenor who added pleasant musical interludes to film farces of the 1930s, has died of lung cancer. The curly-haired Jones, whose signature song was "Donkey Serenade," was 84 when he died Saturday in New York...