The Seattle Symphony is offering tickets starting at $10 for all holiday concerts. The special price comes from the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences.

Performances include Handel’s “Messiah,” Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Holiday POPS! with Marvin Hamlisch, and “Winter Dreams” with conductor Carolyn Kuan and oboist Ben Hausmann.

Additionally, Seattle Symphony will present Natalie MacMaster: A Celtic Christmas, A Festival of Lessons & Carols featuring Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle, and the annual Holiday Sing-Along with the Seattle Symphony Chorale.

Children’s performances include Discover Music! Holiday Dreams for Kids a concert designed for children ages 5-12, and Play Me A Story, for children birth to age 5. Children 5 and older are also welcome to attend Holiday POPS! with Marvin Hamlisch and Holiday Sing-Along with the Seattle Symphony Chorale.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which opens at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre on Dec. 3, may be a case of life imitating art. The musical comedy classic begins when Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He miraculously convinces Milly to marry him that same day and she immediately starts reforming her six rowdy brothers-in-law.

Apparently, the same goes for the cast itself. The male-dominated cast (19 males, 10 females) is shaped up by a female-dominated creative team.

Allison Narver (director), Patti Colombo (choreographer), and Valerie Gebert (music director) have bravely banded together to take on this testosterone-filled musical.

The Bellevue Youth Symphony has been selected for the 2008 Best of Bellevue Award in the Bands & Orchestras category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).

The USLBA “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country.