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The National Gallery of Art's "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909- 1929: When Art Danced with Music" is a must-see exhibit for dance fans. This exceptionally beautiful exhibit takes you, er, step by step through one of the great periods in dance history. A distant era is made to seem fresh again.

When the Columbia Orchestra concludes its 35th season on Saturday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake High School, it will not go out quietly.

You can expect the music to sound fresh during the Leipzig String Quartet's concert on Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m., at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre. Like the sponsoring Candlelight Concert Society, this chamber music quartet often likes to introduce audiences to contemporary classical music.

Midway through her season, Ballet Theatre of Maryland artistic director Dianna Cuatto presented an ambitious, innovative program offering two seldom-produced one-act ballets.

Castleton Festival on conductor Lorin Maazel's Virginia estate spreads its wings