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With "Little Shop of Horrors" set to open this weekend, Edgewood's drama department continues to bloom and flourish.

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg plays Shostakovich violin concerto on program with orchestral works by Rachmaninoff, conducted by Marin Alsop. Rachmaninoff;

Liz Bobo's final town hall came to an unexpectedly emotional close as the Columbia Democrat bid farewell to her audience of friends and constituents Feb. 27.

Throwback Thursday: The top 10 songs this week in 1993

BSO programs spiritual works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Bernstein and others; season's guest artists include Hilary Hahn, Garrick Ohlsson, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin.

Last April, Kip Berman was in Baltimore, playing his first-ever set without his indie-pop band The Pains of Being Pure at Heart behind him.

The Chagall Trio explores the 19th-century romantic repertory when it performs on Sunday, March 9, at 3 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia.

The Kennedy Center's lineup for 2014-2015 season to include festival of Iberian culture; premiere of Degas-inspired theater work; operas new to Washington.

Over the past couple weeks, I have recognized musical accomplishments at the elementary and middle school levels, and now the spotlight turns to Marriotts Ridge High School.

Thomas Dolby has made a career of blending music with cutting-edge technology, from writing a synthpop hit to creating ringtone technology for cell phones

Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist of Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, gives radiant account of Mozart concerto with Baltimore Symphony and conductor Marin Alsop.

ZZ Ward, who brings her Last Love Tour to Rams Head Live on March 1, has spent the past two years surprising and winning over fans with her hybrid mix of blues, hip-hop, pop and folk.

Throwback Thursday: The top 10 songs this week in 1976 according to Billboard's Hot 100 chart archives

The beat goes on in 2014, at least when it comes to capital jazz in Annapolis provided by a program nurtured by the late Joe Byrd and, before that, by his brother Charlie Byrd. A tradition set by those two will again draw major talent to Annapolis this year for a series of jazz concerts at 49 West Café and at O'Callaghan's Hotel.

The late Frank Zappa is back for an encore, this time as a formerly pimple-causing bacterium that apparently has moved from human skin to the bark of grape vines.

Flash back 50 years via Billboard's Hot 100 chart archive

A Columbia family is still reeling from two devastating blows after learning of their 21-year-old son's sudden death in New York and discovering the theft of his prized electric guitar and other music gear from their home less than two weeks later.

The music accolades continue this week with good news from Mount View Middle School.

There is a lot of great music that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has not programmed lately, if at all, music that audiences should be hearing.

Opera about two Supreme Court justices by Derrick Wang, a Baltimore-born composer and graduate of University of Maryland Carey School of Law, gets its first full reading.

Mercedes C. Samborsky, an accomplished musician who changed careers later in life and became a lawyer whose specialty was family law, died Jan. 31 of heart failure at Franklin Square Medical Center. She was 84.

The eminent Russian conductor offers soaring Rachmaninoff symphony in program shortened because of snow threat.

The parents of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop died within days of each other.

The flier may have read "record release show," but Mt. Royal's concert last Saturday in Charles Village felt more like a celebratory gathering of close friends and family.

Today's popular musicians don't bring anything lunar-landingly new to the table, not like the Beatles

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop's parents, both longtime musicians, died in their 80s.

If you're throwing a 1940s-themed party, you can't go wrong with Baltimore musician Bosley. In fact, it'd be a bit remiss not to include him.

Continuing a marketing campaign launched last year, the Baltimore Symphony just hung huge banners outside of its concert hall depicting playful musicians, including a tattooed timpanist.

The Columbia Orchestra loves to play new music. That means it's primed to perform the winning composition in its sixth American Composer Competition on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 2, at 3 p.m. at the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake High School. This competition's winner is Michael Djupstrom.

Anne Arundel County datebook

Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.

Rabbi Daniel Plotkin was in the marching band at the University of Wisconsin and one of his highlights came when the football team took part in the Rose Bowl parade in 1994 — the school's first appearance in the game in 31 years. When Plotkin became the rabbi at Beth Shalom in Columbia less than three years ago, he soon learned of several other congregants with dormant musical backgrounds but no outlet to keep sharp or exhibit their skills. With the assistance of Steve Cohen, who joined

National Symphony Orchestra will perform Hindemith's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," a piece sometimes called an "American requiem."

Contemporary compositions, such as Thomas Ades' "The Tempest" and Maria Schneider's "Winter Morning Walks," dominated the classical categories in the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.

Program that puts musical instruments into hands of schoolkids inspires similar programs in Austria, Brazil and Iraq

John Weber, a tenor who sang in opera productions and was the music director of a Rodgers Forge church, died of an apparent heart attack Jan. 17. The Catonsville resident was 50.

At the Perry Hall Folk Music Night, democracy prevails; the performers are often in the audience and audience members get to perform.