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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Friday, April 27, 2012
Magic of Paris
Gianandrea Noseda opens the PSO's Paris Festival with early 20th century composers who revolutionized music in the City of Light. Italy's Alfredo Cassella studied at the Paris Conservatory and befriended Debussy and de Falla. His Symphony #2 is inspired by Gustav Mahler's music. Frenchman Claude Debussy's colorful Ibéria complements Spaniard de Falla's Three-Cornered Hat, a pantomime commissioned for Diaghalev's famed Ballets Russes.
04/27/2012 - 04/29/2012
04/27 - 8:00 pm
04/28 - 8:00 pm
04/29 - 2:30 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Point Park Connections
In Point Park University's adjunct dance faculty, our dance students have access to a wide range of styles and experience. With artful choreography, this performance features very special works created for this season's culminating performance.
04/27/2012 - 04/29/2012
Location: White Performance Studio, Point Park University, 201 Wood St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Music till Midnight
Organist Charles Heaton continues his series of occasional late night concerts, this time with soprano Sara Botkin. Free Admission. A reception precedes the concert at 10:30 pm.
04/27/2012
Time: 11:00 pm
Location: St. Andrew’s Episcopal, 5801 Hampton St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Abduction from the Seraglio
Mozart's opera follows the adventures of a young Spanish nobleman, his lover, and their servants who are kidnapped and placed into service to the Pasha, Abduction features showpiece arias alongside moments of uproarious laughter and genuine pathos. The production places the action on the luxurious Orient Express. Two stars of 2010's Barber of Seville return in another comic pairing: David Portillo as the nobleman Belmonte, and Paolo Pecchioli as the Pasha's right-hand man, Osmin. Antony Walker conducts.
04/28/2012 - 05/06/2012
04/28 - 8:00 pm
05/01 - 7:00 pm
05/04 - 8:00 pm
05/06 - 2:00 pm
Location: Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
One of America's ("ten best" - NY Times) most versatile, popular and highly-acclaimed choreographers, Lar Lubovitch founded the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company 43 years ago. Lubovitch’s work is extolled for its musicality, rhapsodic style and sophisticated formal structures. His radiant, highly-technical choreography and deeply-humanistic voice have been celebrated throughout the world.
04/28/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Vox Audio
If you love to laugh while witnessing astonishing vocal skills, don't miss Vox Audio. This Drama Desk Award-winning, off-Broadway vocal troupe combines world-class harmony with vocal sound effects, comedic audience interaction in a family-friendly romp.
04/28/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
27 E. Main St., Uniontown, PA
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Contradiction
The Bach Choir explores how different styles and instrmentation can be used with the same musical material. The twist conceived by Artistic Director Thomas Douglas is accompaniment by a five-piece jazz/rock/fusion band and/or string ensemble. Featured composers include Vivaldi, Mozart, Handel, Pachelbel, J. S. Bach, Jagger & Richards, Faure and Haydn.
04/28/2012 - 04/29/2012
04/28 - 8:00 pm
04/29 - 4:00 pm
Location: Twentieth Century Club, 4201 Bigelow Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA
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Juried Biennial
The Fifth Westmoreland Juried Biennial features 101 artists within 150 miles of Greensburg chosen by juror Kerry Oliver-Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
04/28/2012 - 07/22/2012
221 N. Main St. Greensburg, PA
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Carnegie Mellon Baroque Ensemble
Featuring winners of CMU's Baroque Concerto Competition in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2, Vivaldi's Oboe/Violin Concerto, and a newly commissioned piece by Nancy Galbraith. Stephen Schultz directs.
04/29/2012
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Alumni Concert Hall, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon Unvirsity, Pittsburgh, PA
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Benjamin Beilman, violin
Violinist Benjamin Beilman plays works by Mozart, Strauss, Prokofiev, and Hubay. Free and open to all. A reception follows the concert.
04/30/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
4905 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA
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