Mercury News, California — The San Francisco Symphony's 99th season starts Sept. 7 at Davies Symphony Hall with a gala opener: soprano Jessye Norman is the star soloist, performing works by Aaron Copland and Duke Ellington. And then, a mere ten months of music takes off: every... more info

MTV.com News — 'Dear Ke$ha, you have won me over with your tricks and charms,' Mayer tweets.By Jocelyn Vena John Mayer and Ke$ha Photo: Brian Ach/Duffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImage John Mayer once had a Twittermance with Demi Lovato. Now, it seems the singer/... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Concert Hall, GlasgowThe RSNO's association with the work of Guillaume Connesson dates back to the arrival of music director Stéphane Denève, who launched his tenure five years ago with the premiere of a specially commissioned piece. A G... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — The much talked-about Milan-born conductor, Gianandrea Noseda, is making his CSO debut. Fashionable composer Kaija Saariaho has a relatively recent and large-scale work on the program, her 2002 "Orion." And one of the world's greatest pianists, Radu ... more info

Guardian Music — What links Tolstoy, Beethoven, a virtuoso violinist and a young, married Czech woman? The inspiration for the elderly Janacek's string quartetsOpera and leider com­posers have always drawn inspiration from literature. Instrumental music, meanwhile... more info

Guardian Music — Muziekgebouw, AmsterdamGavin Bryars's new piano ­concerto, The Solway Canal, is his first ­substantial work for the instrument, and was ­commissioned for the Dutch ­pianist Ralph van Raat in ­conjunction with his Borletti Buitoni Trust... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonChopin, whose 200th anniversary falls in a fortnight's time, was perhaps an ­inevitable choice for the second half of Murray Perahia's recital. In preceding a selection of his works with Bach and Beethoven, Perahia was able to ­... more info

All About Jazz — Austin Chronicle Aural History Hannibal Lokumbe and Jeff Lofton's Jazz Traditionalism BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ Photo by John Anderson "I don't know him," admitted Jeff Lofton of Hannibal Lokumbe a few weeks before this issue's cover shoot. "That's somebo... more info

All About Jazz — The sunny Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a knack for landing where youd least expect him and making a go of it. He is music director of what used to seem the eternally starchy Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. They began a U.S. tour with a Bee... more info

The Austrian pianist Till Fellner performed an all-Beethoven program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday night. more info