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MEMPHIS Fifty years ago this month, Elvis Presley swaggered into Sun Studios. His hometown celebrates the King himself, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash with a 12-month "50 Years of Rock 'n' Roll" bash (www.50yearsrocknroll.com), including a July 5 tribute concert.
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK What's a town without a Frank Gehry-designed concert hall? The undulating Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts is the new home of the Bard Music Festival (www.bard.edu/bmf). From July 8 to August 22, its focal point is the work of Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich.
LOS ANGELES Now that the Philharmonic has moved to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Plácido Domingo-directed Los Angeles Opera (www.losangelesopera.org) is the principal occupant of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. This month brings A Little Night Music, a romantic farce with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
—Valerie Stivers
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