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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting today
Pops: Around the World with Disney The Magical Music of Disney for live orchestra. 05/18/2013 Time: 7:00 pm Palace Theater, 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg, PA website | map
Old and New Worlds Warren Davison conducts the orchestra's season finale, including Dvorak's Symphony #9, "From the New World;" Weber's Andante and Hungarian Rondo, featuring bassoonist Alicia Whitney; Johann Strauss' Wine, Women and Song; and Serenade by the Hungarian composer Gyula Beliczay. Tickets are available at the door. 05/18/2013 Time: 7:30 pm Upper St. Clair H.S., 1825 McLaughlin Run Rd., Upper St. Clair, PA website | map
American Portrait Two Pittsburgh premieres, "An American Te Deum" by Randall Stroope and "South Dakota Shadows Suite" by Jackson Berkey will be sung by Concentio and Chamber Choirs, respectively, with strings and piano. Additional works include three traditional American Hymns by Aaron Copland, selections from Randall Thompson's "Frostiana," Eric Whitacre's hauntingly beautiful "Seal Lullaby," Jocelyn Hagan's "Joy", and a set of spirituals. 05/18/2013 Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Church of the Ascension 4729 Ellsworth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA website
Johnstown Symphony Youth Orchestra The JSYO Spring Concert, conducted by JSO Music Director Istvan Jaray. The program includes Saint-Saens, Leroy Anderson, Robert Schumann, Beethoven, tunes from Les Miserables, Titanic, and more. 05/18/2013 Time: 1pm
Location: Westmont Hilltop High School website
Hartwood Organ Recital Richard Konzen of Grove City College will play the recently restored 1909/10 Aeolian residence pipe organ located in the mansion in Harwood Acres Park. Reservations: (412) 767-9200. 05/19/2013 Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Hartwood Mansion, 200 Hartwood Acres, Pittsburgh, PA website
Season Finale with pianist Hanna Che Music Director Lawrence Loh features pianist Hannah Che, 17, winner of PYSO's Concerto Competition, in the first movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2. Hannah has soloed with the McKeesport and Butler County Symphony Orchestras, and plays in PYSO's first violin section. The program also includes the finale to Mahler's Symphony #1 and Saint-Saens' Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, with 30 PYSO alumni augmenting the orchestra. Free tickets (required) available via download. 05/19/2013 Time: 7:30 pm Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA website | map
A Grand Night of Music The Kollel Jewish Learning Center presents a benefit concert featuring Anne Martindale Williams, Principal Cellist of the Pittsburgh Symphony, and Luz Manriquez Meyer, internationally renowned pianist and Associate Professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music. Their program includes works by Piazzolla, Prokofiev, Beethoven, and Ravel. 05/20/2013 Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Jewish Community Center, 5738 Darlington Rd., Pittsburgh, PA website
Objects of Desire (work in progress) Continuum Dance Theater will preview its work-in-progress, titled Objects of Desire. 05/21/2013 Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Bar Marco, 2216 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA website
Side By Side By Sondheim Side By Side By Sondheim is a dazzling collection of songs by Broadway’s musical master, Stephen Sondheim, with music from many of his very best works including: Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle and Pacific Overtures. 05/23/2013 - 08/18/2013 CLO Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA website | map
The Classical Music of Sir Paul McCartney Rock for The Heart foundation presents Heart Strings, a salute to the classical music of Sir Paul McCartney, featuring the North American premiere of the orchestral adaptation of his Nova, performed by members of the PSO; benefits pediatric heart research. Guest artists include pianist/composer Roger Kellaway, jazz pianist Peter Beets, the Nashville duo Steel Magnolia, and composer and former Chicago member Bill Champlin. 05/25/2013 Time: 8pm
Location: Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh
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