We’ve come to expect stellar programming at The Grand, and this season delivers nothing less. In the music department, trumpeter Chris Botti visits Nov. 12, Motown legend Smokey Robinson plays Nov. 20, The Fifth Dimension’s Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis perform Feb. 8 and the amazing Blind Boys of Alabama visit Feb. 16. (Wilmington, 652-5577, grandopera.org)