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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Monday, October 29, 2012
Cuidado & Sotiri Tsourekis Greek Orchestra Cuidado is Pittsburgh's most dangerous tango band. Their extensive backgrounds in tango, classical, jazz, and pop music fuse to create a fresh and unique sound. Sotiri Tsourekis and his orchestra have been entertaining audiences with Mediterranean melodies and Grecian grooves for 20 years. 10/29/2012 Time: 7:30 pm Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie, PA website | map
Robin Hood The 1922 silent film Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks in the title role 10/30/2012 Time: 7:00 pm 27 E. Main St., Uniontown, PA website | map
Stomp The international percussion sensation Stomp has garnered an armful of awards and rave reviews, and has appeared on numerous national television shows. The eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments – matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps – to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. 10/30/2012 - 11/04/2012
Location: Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA website
Nosferatu The 1922 German silent film adaptation of Dracula. 10/31/2012 Time: 7:00 pm 27 E. Main St., Uniontown, PA website | map
 Fahrenheit 451 On the heels of Ray Bradbury's death this summer at 91, Prime Stage Theatre gives the regional premiere of Fahrenheit 451 in the author's own stage adaptation directed by Justin Fortunato. In this dystopian future, firemen burn books and hunt down anyone who takes the risk of reading them. Free thought and intellectualism are discouraged; to question authority puts you in danger. 11/02/2012 - 11/11/2012 New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PA website | map
Conversations The Trillium Ensemble, a trio of flute, clarinet and piano dedicated to producing concerts that are accessible, intimate and fun, presents a concert titled "Conversations." This program features super-virtuosic music from living composers including Derek Bermel, Adam Silverman and John Adams, and a Radiohead tune orchestrated Christopher O'Riley, the host of NPR's From the Top. 11/02/2012 - 11/03/2012 11/02 - 2:00 pm 11/03 - 2:00 pm
Location: Sat. @ Frick Fine Arts Auditorium; Sun. @ St. Maurice Church website
Flying Karamazov Brothers These New Vaudevillians are not your father's wild-haired, juggling, flame-throwing, kilt-and-tutu wearing performers. They'll display their ambidextrous and alliterative talents, and juggle challenging objects brought by audience members. For all audiences. 11/03/2012 Time: 8:00 pm 27 E. Main St., Uniontown, PA website | map
Mozart's Don Giovanni Don Giovanni's (M. Todd Simpson) lady-killing ways catch up to him in the form of a statue that he invites to dinner. But life in the fast lane isn't easy, even for a man who claims over 2000 romantic conquests. In the end, Don Giovanni is undone by his own web of deception. Cast includes Caitlin Lynch, Jennifer Holloway, Sari Gruber, and Wayne Tigges. Antony Walker conducts. 11/03/2012 - 11/11/2012 11/03 - 8:00 pm 11/06 - 7:00 pm 11/09 - 8:00 pm 11/11 - 2:00 pm Benedum Center, 231 7th St., Pittsburgh, PA website | map
42nd Annual Jazz Seminar Concert Particpants include Randy Brecker, trumpet; George Cables, piano; Winard Harper, drums; Javon Jackson, tenor saxophone; Abraham Laboriel, bass; Yotam Silberstein, guitar; Lew Soloff, trumpet, and Bobby Watson, alto saxophone, performing under the direction of Nathan Davis. 11/03/2012 Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA website
Jazz Music Director Matthew Kraemer leads a concert featuring the Joe Negri Trio, and a tribute to Irving Berlin. 11/03/2012 Time: 7:30 pm Butler Intermediate High School, 551 Fairground Hill Rd, Butler, PA website | map
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