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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Sunday, March 4, 2012
Cristina Ortiz, piano
Brazilian pianist Cristina Ortiz has been touring, recording, and teaching internationally for over 25 years. She will play an all-Chopin program including the four Scherzos, and four Ballades.
03/05/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellfield Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Chamber Music Concert
Classical Revolution Pittsburgh presents works by Mark O'Connor, Astor Piazzolla, Sergei Prokofiev, and Lev Zhurbin. Classical Revolution presents live traditional and modern chamber music at low or no cost in highly accessible venues, such as cafes and bars. Free admission.
03/06/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: 3634 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Cats
What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an airport bookshop became one of the longest-running shows in Broadway hsitory. Winner of 7 Tonys including Best Musical, cats features 20 songs including "Memory."
03/08/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, 450 Schoolhouse Rd., Johnstown, PA
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A Streetcar Named Desire
03/09/2012 - 03/11/2012
237 Seventh St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Previn, Haydn, and Mendelssohn’s "Italian"
Former PSO Music Director André Previn (1976-1984) gives the premiere of his own Triple Concerto for Trumpet, Horn and Tuba featuring three principals from the PSO brass section. The Grammy, Oscar and Kennedy Center Honoree also conducts Haydn's Symphony #102 “Miracle” and Mendelssohn's vibrant “Italian” Symphony.
03/09/2012 - 03/11/2012
03/09 - 8:00 pm
03/10 - 8:00 pm
03/11 - 2:30 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Masterworks III: Piano Forte with Biegel and Zwilich
Featuring piano soloist Jeffrey Biegel, André Raphel conducts "Shadows," a co-commissioned work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich that reflects the migration of the human spirit. Also scheduled, Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, and Schubert's Symphony #9 (The Great C Major).
03/09/2012
Capitol Theater, 1015 Main St., Wheeling, WV
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Dynamic Women of Dance
Featuring guest choreographers with the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, directed by Greer Reed-Jones.
03/09/2012 - 03/12/2012
Time: tba
August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Dervish
Dervish is one of the most respected acts of modern time in world/roots music worldwide. 22 years since first coming together, with four original members still on board, Dervish remains a leading force in traditional Irish music. They've shared stages James Brown, The Buena Vista Social Club, Oasis, Sting, REM, Beck and many more.
03/10/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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A Night of Beginnings
Guest Conductor Thomas Hong, Assistant Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony, will lead a concert that features the symphony’s 2012 Young Artist Competition Winner.
03/10/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Butler Intermediate High School, 551 Fairground Hill Rd, Butler, PA
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Across the Seas
Walter Morales conducts.
03/10/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Katz Performing Arts Center, JCC, 5738 Darlington Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
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