Recently nominated for a Latin Grammy Award, critically acclaimed guitarist/songwriter and famed NY Yankees star, Bernie Williams, is perhaps more recognized by baseball fans for playing all 16 years of his career for the New York Yankees, winning 4 World Series...and holding an overall .308 batting average in addition to many other accolades. Bernie Williams is now wowing fans and fellow artists in musical venues. Bernie's first album garnered critical acclaim and was featured on the Billboard Top 100.

A classically trained guitarist, playing and composing music is Bernie?s first true passion with influences that include jazz, classical, pop, Brazilian, and Latin sounds. In addition to playing lead and rhythm guitar, Williams compositions mix Bernie's love of jazz with the sophisticated Latin rhythms of his Puerto Rican heritage.

Tap superstar, Emmy and American Choreography Award winner Jason Samuels Smith along with jazz legend Curtis Lundy and his Quartet will perform in a special benefit for Fairview Hospital. An exhilarating and uplifting evening... just what the doctor ordered! Pre-show Gala reception and dinner packages available. Call Fairview Hospital for details at (413) 854-9609.

Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American romantic drama film directed by Nicholas Ray that tells the story of a rebellious teenager played by James Dean, who comes to a town, meets a girl, disobeys his parents, and defies the local high school bullies.

It was an attempt to portray the moral decay of American youth, critique parental style, and exploit the differences between generations.

In 1990, Rebel Without a Cause was added to the preserved films of the United States Library of Congress's National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film opened on October 27, 1955, almost one month after James Dean's fatal car crash.

Running Time 111 minutes

Kick off Columbus Day Weekend with the magnetic energy of Latin Dance at its best. The intoxicating rhythms of Club Havana and the powerful impact of the Spanish conquest of Mexico as seen in Tres Cantos will be part of this exhilarating evening of dance.

James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter Konig

Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking new Ring for the Met: Maestro James Levine and director Robert Lepage. "The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it's a cosmos," says Lepage (La Damnation de Faust), who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world's greatest theatrical journey. Bryn Terfel, singing his first, much-anticipated Met Wotan, leads the cast in Das Rheingold, the Ring's first installment. Levine, who has conducted every complete cycle of Wagner's masterpiece at the Met since 1989, says, "The Ring is one of those works of art that you think you know, but every time you return to it, you find all kinds of brilliant moments that hadn't struck you with the same force before." "The Ring is about change," director Lepage says. "I try to be extremely respectful of Wagner's storytelling, but in a very modern context. We're trying to see how in our day and age we can tell this classical story in the most complete way."

Over the years, world-renowned guitarist and composer Pat Metheny has won countless polls as "Best Jazz Guitarist" and awards, including three gold records. He has also won seventeen Grammy Awards spread out over a variety of different categories including Best Rock Instrumental, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, and Best Instrumental Composition. The Pat Metheny Group won an unprecedented seven consecutive Grammies for seven consecutive albums. On Sunday, October 10 at 7pm at the Mahaiwe, Metheny will perform his newest solo project, Orchestrion, for which he collaborated with several inventors to construct a large palette of acoustic sound-producing devices that he organized as a new kind of orchestrion. As the soloist, Metheny mechanically controls all of the instruments from his guitar in such a way as to give the listener the experience of a full orchestra.

On Thursday, October 14 at 7pm, the Mahaiwe will present three-time Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre, one the hottest young Latin bands today. Recently signed to Sony, this seven-member Miami-based Cuban group's latest album, Bach in Havana, is a fusion of Bach with Afro-Cuban rhythms featuring guest tracks by Paquito d'Rivera and Yosvany Terry.

Tiempo Libre has also collaborated with leading classical musicians on recent projects, including At Home with Friends by violinist Joshua Bell and flutist Sir James Galway's album, O'Reilly Street. The group is a hit in the U.S. and abroad, celebrated for its incendiary, joyful performances of timba, an irresistible, dance-inducing mix of high-voltage Latin jazz and the seductive rhythms of son. They tour widely and have appeared on the prime-time TV show Dancing with the Stars.

"Extraordinary, beautiful piece of theatre...superlatively acted production captures minds and hearts." Evening Standard

Conceived and Directed by Simon McBurney

A Disappearing Number weaves together the story of two love affairs, separated by a century and a continent. The first happens now. The second is set in 1914. It tells of the heartbreaking collaboration between the greatest natural mathematician of the 20th century, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a penniless Brahmin from Madras in South India, and his British counterpart, the brilliant Cambridge don GH Hardy.

With a haunting original score by Nitin Sawhney, this piece of startling visual poetry from Simon McBurney and Complicite is a compelling meditation on love, mathematics and the pain of exile in an age when we think we can belong anywhere and have everything.

A Complicite co-production with the Barbican, London, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Cast in alphabetical order:

David Annen G.H. Hardy Firdous Bamji Al Cooper Paul Bhattacharjee Aninda Rao Hiren Chate Tabla player Divya Kasturi Mother/University Cleaner/Dancer Chetna Pandya Surita Bhogaita/Barbara Jones Saskia Reeves Ruth Minnen Shane Shambhu Srinivasa Ramanujan/Dancer

Original Music by Nitin Sawhney Design by Michael Levine Lighting by Paul Anderson Sound by Christopher Shutt Projection by Sven Ortel Costume by Christina Cunningham

PRESS QUOTES:
"Quietly mesmerizing...lucid, dynamic and continuously engaging" - Charles Isherwood, New York Times

"Technically dazzling and beautifully staged" Frank Scheck, New York Post

"Abstract ideas effortlessly inform the human dramas, and the whole, impressive production is even greater than the sum of its marvellous parts" Jennifer Farrar, The Examiner

"Marvelously acted and often deliciously comic piece...A Disappearing Number is a wonder and one I cannot recommend too highly." Daily Telegraph

"Mind-bending and heart-stopping" The Independent

"Brilliant, miraculously fluid new show makes mind-blowing theatre out of maths; it teases your brain whilst breaking your heart." Mail on Sunday

Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, Rene Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko

Bass Rene Pape takes on one of the greatest roles in a production by monumental theater and opera director Peter Stein, in his Met debut. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky's soulful spectacle, which captures the suffering and ambition of a nation. "Boris Godunov is a masterpiece," Stein says. "The challenge is to transmit the enormous emotional depth of the whole thing. Boris is the czar, but he is expressing a problem we all have: the consequences of human actions." Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir Ognovenko, and Ekaterina Semenchuk lead the huge cast in a work that is also a breathtaking showcase for the Met's formidable chorus. "Boris," Stein says, "is one of the richest operas ever written."

Mummenschanz has been enchanting audiences of all ages for 35 years with its clever, comic, and bizarre world filled with strange creatures, amusing situations, astounding colors, and imaginative shapes.

The company's newest show, 3 X 11 (a 33-year retrospective of Mummenschanz), uses ordinary materials such as toilet paper, white sheets, foam, and recycled junk that morph into giant balloons, huge slinkies, gargantuan potato heads, and accordion-pleated tubes. This beloved Swiss company tells incredible stories that transcend the need for words. These invisible masters of movement (founding members Bernie Schurch and Floriana Frassetto with Raffaella Mattioli and Pietro Montandon) have revolutionized theater using mime, acting, dance, and magic.

The Original Alfred Hitchcock Classic thriller, redone in 1998 by director Gus Van Sant.

A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

Running Time 109 minutes

The United States Air Force Band of Liberty is a select group of professional Airmen-musicians who support the global Air Force mission by providing outstanding musical products and services for official military, recruiting, and community relations events, and by fostering America's rich national heritage. It has been performing for military and civilian audiences throughout the New England region for over 30 years.

James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo

Anna Netrebko returns to the role that made her a Met star, with Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo. Music Director James Levine conducts.

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ON SALE TO MAHAIWE MEMBERS 9/15

GENERAL PUBLIC 9/22

Running Time 101 minutes

A Mahaiwe tradition continues!

Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson

"I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera," says director Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George), who makes his Met debut with this new production, which was greeted with popular success when it opened in London. "Right through this opera there is, on the one hand, an implacable expression of impending doom and, on the other hand, a succession of the most gloriously open-throated arias, the most fantastically determined music." Roberto Alagna leads the cast in the title role. Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star in Verdi?s most ambitious opera. "Not one of these characters is prepared to accept his or her own tragic destiny," Hytner says of this epic tragedy in which romantic desire shapes the course of nations. Yannick Nezet-Seguin, back after his triumphant debut leading Carmen, conducts.

Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Juha Uusitalo

Puccini's wild west opera stars all-American diva Deborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani, and is conducted by Nicola Luisotti. The performances mark the 100th anniversary of the opera's world premiere at the Met.

Running Time: 102 minutes

Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains

Baritone James Maddalena stars as Nixon

"All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology," says Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, whose most famous opera has its Met premiere. "The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history." Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon?s historic 1972 encounter with Mao and Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars as Nixon, a role he created to widespread acclaim. Nixon in China, Sellars says, "shows you what opera can do to history, which is to deepen it and move into its more subtle, nuanced, and mysterious corners." This production was originally created by English National Opera.

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Founded in 1992 by North Philadelphia native Rennie Harris, Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM) was conceived with the vision for sharing an appreciation for diversity and is dedicated to preserving and disseminating hip-hop culture through workshops, classes, lecture-demonstrations, dance residencies, mentoring programs and public performances, providing audiences with a sincere view of the essence and spirit of hip-hop, rather than the commercially exploited stereotypes most often presented by the media.

ON SALE TO MEMBERS 9/15

GENERAL PUBLIC 9/22

Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Placido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins

Natalie Dessay returns to her triumphant portrayal of the fragile heroine in the Met's hit production. Also starring Joseph Calleja.

Jugglers/Comedians for all ages!

With their unique blend of music, comedy, dance, theater, and juggling that is sure to dazzle young and old alike, come marvel the The Flying Karamazov Brothers, New York's favorite lunatics at the apex of their ambidextrous and alliterative ability.

Their show is a combination of humor, both physical and verbal, ranging from high brow to low brow to mono brow. Come watch the Flying K's as they prove with each performance that chaos and unexpected events in our lives are the best part of being human.

ON SALE TO MEMBERS 9/15

GENERAL PUBLIC 9/22

Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tezier, Kwangchul Youn

Natalie Dessay returns to her triumphant portrayal of the fragile heroine in the Met's hit production. Also starring Joseph Calleja.

Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Florez, Stephane Degout, Michele Pertusi

Rossini's vocally dazzling comedy soars with bel canto sensation Juan Diego Fl—rez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adele, sung by soprano Diana Damrau. Bartlett Sher, director of the Met's popular productions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Les Contes d Hoffmann, describes the world of Le Comte Ory as, "a place where love is dangerous. People get hurt. That can be very funny and very painful. Rossini captures both-with the most beautiful love music he ever wrote."

Andrew Davis; Renee Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose

Renee Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang Capriccio's final scene on Opening Night of the 2008-09 season. Now she sings Strauss's entire diva showcase, with Andrew Davis conducting.

James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Alvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Willy Decker's strikingly beautiful production, a hit when it premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2005, arrives at the Met with soprano Marina Poplavskaya starring as opera?s most fascinating heroine. "Violetta is an outlaw," Decker says. "Society shuts her out and looks down on her as a person without feeling, without love. But the further you look into the piece, you see that it's the other way around: she is the only person in the opera who truly loves, selflessly. Verdi follows her like an obsessed lover throughout the piece, and by the end, our sympathy too is completely on her side." Matthew Polenzani plays Alfredo with Andrzej Dobber as his father; Gianandrea Noseda conducts Verdi's timeless tragedy.

The mission of Noche Flamenca is to create a diverse theatrical body of performance through song, music and dance that expresses a rigorous, spell-binding aesthetic in the form of flamenco; one that exceeds the highest artistic expectations.

ON SALE TO MEMBERS 9/15

GENERAL PUBLIC 9/22

James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter Konig

The Met has assembled a stellar cast for this second installment of Robert Lepage's new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine: Bryn Terfel is Wotan, lord of the Gods, in his first performances of the role with the company. Deborah Voigt adds the part of Brunnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann and Eva- Maria Westbroek star as the Walsungen twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is Fricka. "The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it's a cosmos," says Lepage (La Damnation de Faust), who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world's greatest theatrical journey. Levine, who has conducted every complete cycle of Wagner's masterpiece at the Met since 1989, says, "The Ring is one of those works of art that you think you know, but every time you return to it, you find all kinds of brilliant moments that hadn't struck you with the same force before."