Oct 15: Centre Stage at CBSO Centre, Birmingham. Box office: 0121 767 4050.

Oct 15: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Box office: 0121 780 3333.

Oct 16: Messiah featuring the Orchestra of the Broque at Pershore Abbey. All proceeds for music and lighting. Richard Poyser (Direct of music, New College, Oxford) returning to Pershore. For further details telephone Carole Oliver on 01386 860389.

Oct 16: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Box office: 0121 780 3333.

Oct 20: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Box office: 0121 780 3333.

n Oct 21: Centre Stage at CBSO Centre, Birmingham. Box office: 0121 767 4050.

n Oct 22: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry. Box office: 024 7652 4524.

Oct 23: Vocal Variation the group for solo singers will meet at the Carice Elgar Room of the Elgar Birthplace Museum, Crown East Lane, Lower Broadheath and will be performing songs about fantasy. For further information phone Pat Pennington on 01299 896613. Visitors to the museum will be given free admission.

Oct 26: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Box office: 0121 780 3333.

Oct 28: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Box office: 0121 780 3333.

Oct 29: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Victoria Hall, Stoke on Trent. Box office: 01782 206000.

Oct 31: CBSO Youth Orchestra Inaugural Concert at Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire. Box office: 0121 780 3333.

Nov 5: The Sensational Back to Basie Orchestra at the Forum Theatre, Malvern. Box office: 01684 892277.

Nov 13: Malvern Big Band in Concert. A 17 piece jazz orchestra playing music from the 30's to the present, at Conquest Theatre, Bromyard. Box office: 01885 488575.