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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Saturday, June 9, 2012
Piano Scholarship Winners Recital The Pittsburgh Piano Teachers Association presents 2012 scholarship winner Ben Grove, who will attend Westminster College, and past winners Alvin Zhu (Julliard) and Ted Evangelista (Boston University). 06/09/2012 Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Steinway Gallery, 445 Main St., Pittsburgh, PA website
 Musicians with a Mission Members of the Westmoreland Symphony and Mendelsshon Choir and other talented local musicians will present a free one-hour concert hosted by QED's Jim Cunningham. A silent auction for the nonprofit Musicians with a Mission will expand their ability to bring live music into local healthcare settings. 06/09/2012 Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Third Presbyterian Church, 5701 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA website
Duo Cieli Duo Cieli (Tara Yaney, flute, and John Marcinizyn, guitar) give a free outdoor performance under the Schenley Plaza tent. 06/14/2012 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm
Location: Schenley Plaza, 4100 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA website
Grand Finale with Honeck Manfred Honeck closes the season with the PSO's Gorton family (James, Gretchen and daughter Heidi) in an imaginative Concert Piece by Eugene Goossens. Maestro Honeck continues the PSO's Mahler Cycle with the immensely moving Sixth Symphony, containing the haunting sounds of Alpine cowbells, celesta, and a devastating hammer of fate. Last performed by the PSO ten years ago, this "Tragic" Symphony is an epic masterwork. 06/15/2012 - 06/17/2012 06/15 - 8:00 pm 06/16 - 8:00 pm 06/17 - 2:30 pm Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA website | map
A Chorus Line From the pen of legendary composer Marvin Hamlisch comes this Tony Award-winning "singular sensation" -- a powerful and emotion-filled musical for anyone who's ever had a dream and put it all on the line. 06/15/2012 - 06/24/2012
Location: Benedum Center website
First Position This documentary follows six gifted young dancers who are among the thousands, ages 9 to 19, who enter the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions. 06/15/2012 - 06/28/2012
Location: Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Ave., downtown website
Three Centuries of Printmaking The Frick features three exhibitions of printmaking: its own collections of 18th-century mezzotints and 19th century chomolithographs, complemented by the traveling exhibition The Prints of Jacques Callot. The three shows span over 200 years, yet all the works demonstrate the importance of the printmaker in recording, publishing and disseminating a distinct view of the world. 06/15/2012 - 09/02/2012 7227 Reynolds St., Pittsburgh, PA website | map
Bloomsday in Pittsburgh Irish actor and director Alan Stanford (currently in PICT's The Pitman Painters) will read part of the Cyclops section at Mullaney's Harp & Fiddle as part of Pittsburgh's 24th annual celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses. Free readings, open to the public, will take place at a variety of locales throughout the day,begining at the Crazy Mocha Cafe in Bloomfield, and finishing at The Map Room in Regent Square. Bring a copy and read along. 06/16/2012 Time: 9am-9pm
Location: Various website
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