Pink Martini

Showing: 3rd, 4th, 5th September

Somewhere between 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, golden-age Hollywood musical, classical chamber ensemble, Brazilian marching band and Japanese film noir is Pink Martini, the Portland-based 12-piece Little Orchestra. Since 1994, classically trained pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale, and fellow Harvard graduate China Forbes, have been making beautiful eclectic music and developing a fan-base as far reaching as their global influences.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Heroic Beethoven

Showing: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th September

Lang Lang

Showing: 18th September

Pianists Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock reunite after their ground-breaking, dueling-keys performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at the 50th Grammy Awards. The hottest artist on the classical music planet and a legend of jazz piano will join forces in concert, performing a variety of solos, duets and concertos for two pianos, with orchestra.