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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Friday, February 8, 2013
American History - Land of the Free
Maestro Istvan Jaray celebrates Black History Month and Presidents' Day with Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, Copland's A Lincoln Portrait (narrator TBA), and William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony.
02/09/2013
Time: 7:30 pm
Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, 450 Schoolhouse Rd., Johnstown, PA
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Passionate Russians
Music Director Matthew Kraemer leads a concert featuring saxophonist Arthur Black, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.
02/09/2013
Time: 7:30 pm
Butler Intermediate High School, 551 Fairground Hill Rd, Butler, PA
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Jefferson's Library
Guests Laura Heimes (soprano) and Andrew Appel (harpsichord) join Chatham Baroque for a concert of songs and sonatas from the musical treasure troves of Thomas Jefferson and other colonial Americans.
02/09/2013 - 02/10/2013
02/09 - 8:00 pm
02/10 - 2:30 pm
Location: various
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Seldom Scene
The Scene began as a non-touring bluegrass band back in 1971 in jam sessions at the home of Ben Eldridge. 40 years later, this band has become one of the single largest contributers to the progression of bluegrass from the early days of Flatt and Scruggs and Bill Monroe to the more contemporary sounds that they developed.
02/09/2013
Time: 7:30 pm
Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Opus II String Orchestra
Opus II String Orchestra will feature familiar pieces including themes from Les Miserables, West Side Story, and Carmen, as part of the church's Music on the Hill series. Opus II develops and showcases the talents of middle school through adult string musicians from Pittsburgh and the eastern suburbs.
02/09/2013
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Beulah Presbyterian Church, 2500 McCrady Rd., Pittsburgh, PA
Family-Friendly Brown Bag concert
Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artists are joined by dancers from Attack Theatre in a collaborative Brown Bag concert featuring music from The Barber of Seville, Dido and Aeneas, The Marriage of Figaro, and others, as well as a sneak peek at Attack Theatre's new production, "Soap Opera." Free admission.
02/09/2013
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Pittsburgh Opera, 2425 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Respighi, Britten, and More!
Ronald Zollman conducts a small but elite group of student instrumentalists in a concert of early 20th century chamber orchestra repertoire, including works by Benjamin Britten, Ottorino Respighi, Arthur Honegger, and Wojciech Kilar.
02/09/2013
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Palace Theatre, Greensburg, PA
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Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis is famous for his book, Bud, Not Buddy, which won the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Award. Mr. Curtis will celebrate Black History Month with his latest book, The Mighty Miss Malone. Deza Malone is a dynamic little girl who is determined to keep hope alive, even when her father loses his job in the middle of the Great Depression. Her motto is, "We are a family on a journey to a place called Wonderful!" (Ages 8 +)
02/10/2013
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: Hill House Kaufmann Center
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Budapest on the Bluff: Hungarian Harmonies
Brahms's Piano Quartet #1 is widely loved for its melodic richness and irresistible Gypsy fireworks in the finale, but music lovers will be charmed to hear how Brahms liberally quotes from this concert's opener, Schubert's little-known Divertissement, a masterpiece in its own right. In his Hungarian Dances, Brahms arranged popular Gypsy themes, filtered through his own sensibility. Andres Cardenes and Anne Martindale Williams share the fruits of decades of music-making together in Kodály's rhapsodic and folk-infused Duo.
02/10/2013
Time: 3:00 pm
PNC Recital Hall, School of Music, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Martha Speaks
(Ages 3-10) When the family dog eats a bowl of alphabet soup, the letters go up to her brain instead of down to her belly and Martha literally becomes outspoken! A new musical adapted from the Martha Speaks book series by Susan Meddaugh and the PBS Kids TV series.
02/10/2013 - 02/17/2013
Time: various
Location: various
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