Cleveland Orchestra to set up residency at Lincoln

Cleveland Orchestra to set up residency at Lincoln

NEW YORK — Call it Cleveland on the Hudson: The Cleveland Orchestra is setting up a multiyear residency at the Lincoln Center Festival starting in 2011.

Officials say the residency begins in July 2011 with Cleveland music director Franz Welser-Moest spotlighting works by Bruckner and John Adams.

In 2013 and 2015, the orchestra will perform in the pit for fully staged productions from the Vienna State Opera. Welser-Moest becomes general director of the Vienna opera company next year. His contract in Cleveland runs through 2018, the orchestra’s centennial year.

‘Lost Symbol’ passes 2 million mark in sales

NEW YORK — Dan Brown’s new novel has passed the 2 million mark and bested Bill Clinton’s “My Life” in the record books.

Doubleday announced Tuesday that hardcover, audio and e-book sales for “The Lost Symbol” topped 2 million copies for its first week of release in the United States, Britain and Canada. The total is “well over” 2 million for English-language editions worldwide, according to Doubleday spokeswoman Suzanne Herz, who declined to offer a specific number.

Herz did say that about 5 percent, or 100,000 copies, of “The Lost Symbol” were sold as e-books.

Today’s birthdays

Actor Mickey Rooney is 89. Singer Julio Iglesias is 66. Actress-singer Mary Kay Place is 62. Singer Bruce Springsteen is 60. Actor Jason Alexander (“Seinfeld”) is 50. Singer Ani DiFranco is 39. Singer Sarah Bettens of K’s Choice is 37. Rapper-producer-record head Jermaine Dupri is 37. Singer Erik-Michael Estrada of O-Town is 30.