The New Yorker has just announced the schedule for the upcoming ninth run of its New Yorker Festival, October 3–5, and among this year's luminaries participating in the festivities is Dawn Upshaw. Dawn will sit down for a conversation with the magazine's classical music critic, Alex Ross, at the Ailey Citigroup Theater's Joan Weill Center for Dance, on Saturday, October 4, at 7:30 PM. Tickets will go on sale at 12 noon ET this Friday, September 12. For more information on this and all of the Festival's many activities, visit festival.newyorker.com.

The event is one of several high-profile engagements for Dawn this fall. Next Wednesday through Friday, September 17 through 19, she'll join Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony for a program celebrating the music of Leonard Bernstein—including songs from West Side Story and On the Town—a composer whose works she has visited famously on Nonesuch recordings like World So Wide, I Wish It So, and Leonard Bernstein's New York. For tickets, visit sfsymphony.org.

The program will then come to New York City on Wednesday, September 24, for Carnegie Hall's Opening Night Gala, where Dawn, Tilson Thomas, and the San Francisco Symphony will also be joined by singers Christine Ebersole and Thomas Hampson and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. That event is part of Bernstein: The Best of all Possible Worlds, a season-long series presented by Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic. For tickets, visit carnegiehall.org.

For information on all of these events and other upcoming performances by Dawn Upshaw, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.