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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Friday, February 24, 2012
M33
Based on June Havoc's play, revisions and her personal treasure trove of artistic artifacts, this new adaptation exposes the origins of “reality" entertainment. It's 1933, at the height of the Depression. Vaudeville theater, burlesque, music hall, and new media with a heavy dose of sadism (dance marathons), beckon for the famed Havoc family (Mama Rose, June and Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee") who'd do almost anything for a meal, a buck, a shot at fame, and a place to survive. Directed and Choreographed by Peter Gregus and Tomé Cousin.
02/24/2012 - 03/04/2012
Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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The Elephant Man
"Perhaps my head is so big because it is full of dreams." A poignant true story about the man who looked like a monster, but whose spirit captured the heart of a nation. Critically acclaimed director Richard Keitel (2011's The Glass Menagerie) returns to work his craft on this heartwarming and dramatic true-life tale. A wonderful story about what it means to be human.
02/24/2012 - 03/04/2012
Time: various
New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PA
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Between a Ballad and the Blues
Written by Linda Parris-Bailey.
02/24/2012 - 02/25/2012
Time: tba
August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Samite
World-renowned musician Samite was born and raised in Uganda, where he learned to play the traditional flute. Immigrating to the U.S. in 1987, Samite has released eight CDs internationally and composed an original score for the film Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, which aired on PBS. Samite's vocals, as accompanied by the kalimba, marimba, litungu, and various flutes have mesmerized audiences throughout the world.
02/25/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Music on the Edge - JACK Quartet
JACK Quartet has played to critical acclaimaround the globe. Their concert features the premiere of Pitt faculty composer Amy Williams’ Richter Textures “loosely inspired by paintings by Gerhard Richter,” along with Michael Gordon’s Potassium for amplified instruments (with distortion), Jason Eckardt's Subject, which tackles the issue of torture with complex lighting effects; and Philip Glass’s String Quartet #5.
02/25/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., Pittsburgh, PA
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ProMusica Pittsburgh Presents: Make Them Hear You
Honoring the past, preserving the present, dreaming a bright future. This recital honors African-American advancement in classical music featuring Pittsburgh native bass-baritone Michael Jackson performing in the Negro Spiritual tradition and joined by soprano Anqwenique Wingfield in music from Slavery to Freedom and Beyond.
02/25/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 250 N. Highland Ave, Pittsburgh, P
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The Way Back Home
Ages 3-10. Oliver Jeffers, award-winning author of 'How to Catch a Star' and 'Lost and Found,' returns with an intergalactic tale about seeking adventure staged by Big Wooden Horse Theatre Companu. One day a boy finds a plane in his cupboard. He doesn't remember leaving it there but he decides to take it out for a go. He flies until he runs out of gas and lands on the moon. Frightened and lost, he meets a Martian. But which one is the strange alien? Can they really be friends? And how will they find their Way Back Home?
02/26/2012 - 03/04/2012
Location: various
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The Art of Song
Opera singer Amy Stabnau, with assisting artists Rebekah Hill and Dr. Alastair Stout, will perform art songs, classical arias, and a song cycle written for her by Alastair Stout titled "A Fire for Old Stories." Pre-concert at 2:30 features Pittsburgh Music Academy students.
02/26/2012
Time: 3:00 pm
Saint James Church, 200 Walnut St., Sewickley, PA
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Matthew Bengtson, piano
Critically acclaimed as a "musician’s pianist," Matthew Bengtson has a unique combination of musical talents ranging from extraordinary pianist, to composer, analyst, and scholar of performance practice. His program will include works by Schumann, Scriabin, Szymanowski and Albeniz. He has performed in France, Italy and Hungary, at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and in solo recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
02/26/2012
Time: 3:00 pm
CAPA Auditorium, 111 Ninth St, Pittsburgh, PA
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Chatham Baroque with Sara Botkin
"One of Pittsburgh's greatest treasures," says the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Chatham Baroque continues to excite local, national, and international audiences with dazzling technique and lively interpretations played on instruments of the Baroque period. Soprano Sara Botkin is known for performances with Chatham Baroque and the Bach and Baroque Ensemble, and for her solo CDs "Breath of Heaven" and "An Angel's Christmas."
02/26/2012
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2040 Washington Rd., Pittsburgh, PA
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