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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Saturday, May 5, 2012
WSO on Broadway
Music Director Yugo Ikach invites some of his Broadway friends to dazzle you in favorite Big Apple showstoppers.
05/05/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Trinity High School, 231 Park Ave, Washington, PA
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Bold Broadway
Music Director Susan Medley conducts Broadway favorites from such legendary composers as Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Meredith Wilson, and more with jazz artists Bryan Sable, piano; Justin Bendel, bass; and Robert Rawsthorne, percussion.
05/05/2012 - 05/06/2012
Time: various
Location: various
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Pop!
Who shot Andy Warhol? Welcome to Warhol's legendary Factory, where every artist has talent, ego, and a motive to pull the trigger. As the pop icon's life flashes before his eyes, he confronts an unforgettable cast of outrageous suspects and wrestles with the meaning of his own legacy. Variety calls this wild musical collage by Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs "vibrant, hip, fresh, and a hell of a lot of fun."
05/05/2012 - 05/27/2012
1300 Bingham Street Pittsburgh, PA
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Bird Songs, Love Toads, and Longing Hearts
Experience beautiful and spirited music from around the world that expresses the joy and beauty of nature through traditional folk songs, spirituals, and captivating songs that tell fantastical stories! The Oakland Girls Training Choirs give a concert of beauty and joy. Training Choir II will perform songs by Handel, Britten, and Andrew Kohn.
05/05/2012
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Covenant Fellowship Church, Wilkinsburg, PA
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Music Director Lawrence Loh and the PYSO will collaborate with the Attack Theatre in Milhaud's La Création du Monde, which outlines the creation of the world based on African folk mythology. PYSO Concerto Competition winner, violinist Inori Sakai, will play Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. Free tickets (required) are available online.
05/05/2012
Time: 2:00 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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It's Beethoven, I promise!
Faith United Methodist Church presents The Morningside Trio performing Beethoven's “Gassenhauer” Trio, Schumann's “Fairy Tales,” a wonderfully romantic Trio by Reinecke, Rick Sowash's pastoral “View from Carew," and a Latin Jazz piece by Paquito D'Rivera. Edward Leonard, piano; Greta Schottman, cello; and Alex Jones, clarinet. Freewill donations benefit Autism Speaks.
05/06/2012
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Faith United Methodist, 261 W. Chapel Ridge Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
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Senior Citizens' Day
Free admission for seniors with docent tours 11am - 1pm, then light refreshments and live music. Sponsored by the Women's Committee of the CMoA. Doors open 10:45am.
05/07/2012
4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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An American in Paris
Manfred Honeck closes the Paris Festival with Stravinsky's vibrant ballet Pétrouchka, created for the Ballets Russes in Paris. Then, hear the jazz-infused Cello Concerto by Swiss-born Arthur Honegger featuring PSO Principal Cellist Anne Martindale Williams. George Gershwin's An American in Paris captures the composer's own experience of the bustling streets of Paris.
05/11/2012 - 05/13/2012
05/11 - 8:00 pm
05/11 - 2:30 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Masterworks IV: Sohn Shines
Violin sensation Livia Sohn joins André Raphel and the WSO in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D. This season finale also includes Berlioz' Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony #1, and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2.
05/11/2012
Capitol Theater, 1015 Main St., Wheeling, WV
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A Wrinkle in Time
Before Harry Potter, A Wrinkle in Time was the delightful story about the adventures of Meg and her family and the battle between good and evil, the control of the universe and the ultimate triumph of love. Come see the fusion of science, technology and the arts come alive before your eyes.
05/11/2012 - 05/20/2012
Time: various
New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PA
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