Concerts

Musica Angelica: The Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra was listed in Sunday's Arts & Books section as performing concerts April 7 and 12. The concerts were March 7 and 8.

Musica Angelica: The Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra was listed last Sunday as performing concerts April 7 and 12. The concerts were March 7 and 8.

The curtain has fallen on the JVC Jazz Festival New York, and the Big Apple will probably be without a flagship jazz festival until new sponsorship emerges. A spokesman for the Japanese electronics company said it would not be sponsoring any jazz events in 2009, ending what he called "a productive and successful relationship" dating to 1984, when JVC first attached its name to the New York festival. Instead of a festival, jazz impresario George Wein is producing under his own name three concerts at Carnegie Hall in late June, when the JVC event usually takes place.

Esa-Pekka Salonen still seems youthful at 50, but time seems to be catching up with the outgoing music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Salonen has canceled his three scheduled concerts with the New York Philharmonic this month due to problems with his back. He will be replaced by David Zinman for all three concerts at Avery Fisher Hall on May 16 to 18. -- David Ng

Michael Jackson: An article in Tuesday's Calendar about Michael Jackson's upcoming London concerts said choreographer Todd Sams was collaborating on the shows. The promoter of the shows, AEG Live, says Sams has no role in the concerts.

In a move that raised the specter of previous concert cancellations and no-shows over the last dozen years, Michael Jackson has rescheduled the opening date of "This Is It," his 50-show comeback performance set for London's O2 Arena. Citing challenges presented by a "massive and technically complex show," "This Is It" director Kenny Ortega and Randy Phillips, chief executive of the concerts' producer, AEG Live, said that the first of Jackson's concerts would now kick off on July 13, pushed back from its original start date of July 8. Three make-up performances will take place in March 2010.

The Debbie Allen Dance Academy, a Culver City fixture for almost nine years, relocated Friday to the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza shopping center. The academy will celebrate the new space with three days of open house events and performances June 25-27. As part of the June 26 festivities, one of the studio spaces will be dubbed the Berry Gordy Room after the Motown mogul. The dance performances will take place on the roof of the mall in a series of concerts appropriately titled "Up on the Roof"; a final concert in that series will take place July 3. -- Diane Haithman

In two weeks, the Top 10 contestants of Season 8 of "American Idol" will climb aboard buses for the final rite of an Idol's passage: the 50-city concert tour set to kick off in Portland, Ore., on July 5. For the Idols, the tour represents not only a chance to play rock star in packed arenas, but also the biggest paydays of their careers, with checks of reportedly $100,000-plus coming their way for the four months of labor. But before the road, there are songs to arrange, dance moves to choreograph, wardrobes to fit, and a few last moments of peace.

When the Spreckels Organ Pavilion was dedicated on New Year's Eve, 1914, in Balboa Park, it was hailed as the largest outdoor instrument in the world. A magnificent machine, superbly maintained, it still is. John D. Spreckels gave San Diego the organ on the condition that the concerts always be presented free. So they are every Sunday afternoon, year round, usual San Diego clement weather or not. In the summer the Spreckels Organ Society presents a weekly Organ Festival, the largest organ festival in the country.

Dubliners angry over the around-the-clock dismantling of U2's monumental concert stage mounted street protests Tuesday, threatening the Irish band's plans for the next stop on their European tour. Residents around Croke Park Stadium said their aim was to embarrass the Dublin City Council and the Gaelic Athletic Assn. -- which authorized two straight nights of noise -- not hang up Ireland's most famous musical export. Several dozen residents near the stadium called off their demonstrations after delaying U2's initial convoy for several hours.