The UC Irvine Town and Gown Music...

The UC Irvine Town and Gown Music Group raised $26,000 at its 23rd annual benefit concert on Sunday. Proceeds will go to scholarships for music students.

The AIDS Research Foundation will not get any money from a benefit production of Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” that ran for five performances last week at Edison High School in Huntington Beach. “They took in about $700,” Richard Otey, the school’s vocal director, said Tuesday. “But they spent money than expected, and they actually lost about $500 on the show.”

Mezzo-soprano Monica Groop will replace Mimi Lerner on the Nov. 11 and 12 Pacific Symphony concerts at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa. Lerner has been released from her contract to understudy the role of Arsace in Rossini’s “Semiramide” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Groop, who has sung with the Finnish National Opera and at Covent Garden, will be soloist in Brahms’ “Alto Rhapsody” and one of the soloists in Maurice Durufle’s Requiem.