All Events | Starting Friday, February 10, 2012Beethoven, Mozart & Respighi
Beethoven's bold Symphony #1 pulses with youthful energy and unexpected twists. Pianist Lars Vogt, who commands a startling range of colors and subtleties, plays Mozart's Piano Concerto #16 in D major. Then, Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts two of Respighi's spectacular and splashy symphonic poems, The Pines of Rome and The Fountains of Rome.
02/10/2012
Duquesne Symphony Orchestra
Directed by Jeffrey Turner, the Duquesne Symphony Orchestra develops the understanding, technique, and discipline required of the professional orchestral musician through a broad range of repertoire from the Baroque to contemporary. Soloists often include principal and section players from the world-renowned Pittsburgh Symphony.
02/10/2012
Pops II: Cirque de la Symphonie
The magic of cirque in the music hall, back by popular demand. T – the incredible acrobats of Cirque de la Symphonie perform to the sounds of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra led by André Raphel.
02/10/2012
Draw Me a Story: A Century of Children's Book Illustration
This exhibition provides an appealing survey of drawing styles and techniques from Randolph Caldecott in the 19th century to Chris van Allsburg in the 20th—with many delightful and familiar artists in between including Ernest Shepard, Maurice Sendak, Tomi diPaolo, and Jules Feiffer. The 40 works on paper by famed illustrators are supplemented by 13 books. Draw Me a Story will be staged with artworks hung slightly lower than usual, step stools available, and reading nooks in the galleries for visitors young and old.
02/11/2012
Daphne: Return to Love Cafe
Pittsburgh contralto Daphne Alderson and The Amazing Band present their annual Valentine's Day concert, revisiting Daphne's CD, A Matinee at the Love Cafe, featuring an assortment of standards, Europop ballads, and new arrangements of Leonard Cohen and Pete Seeger songs.
02/11/2012
Heroes
A selection of heroic music including Beethoven's Symphony #3 "Eroica," Wagner's "Siegfrid's Funeral March," and John Williams' "Superman" score. The WSO plays side-by-side with young musicians, and features its WSO Young Artist Competition winner.
02/11/2012
A Night of Song
Guest Conductor Bruce Lauffer is Music Director and Conductor of the McKeesport Symphony Orchestra as well as the Latshaw Pops Orchestra.
02/11/2012
A Bach Tryptich
Alan Lewis directs Chatham Baroque, the Pittsburgh Brass Ensemble, the Calvary Choir and soloists in three Bach cantatas and the trumpet showpiece "Jauchzet Gott" with soprano Kathy Linger and baroque trumpeter Rick Murrell. Cantatas include #21 "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis," and #77, "Ich sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben."
02/12/2012
Wine & Chocolate Tasting
Renaissance & Baroque and the Pittsburgh Camerata offer a variety of chocolate and wine pairings to celebrate Valentine's Day and support these two arts organizations.
02/12/2012
A Romantic Afternoon
Istvan Jaray conducts Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture, Mozart's Concerto for flute and harp with Tara Yaney, flute, and Christine Mazza, harp; and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suite #2.
02/12/2012
Sunday Afternoon Vocal Series
An Italian Valentine featuring the best of Verismo opera, featuring Amelia D’Arcy, soprano, Kelly Lynch; soprano, Enrique Bernardo, tenor and Robert Frankenberry, tenor with pianist Walter Morales.
02/12/2012
Concerto Competition Concert
Directed by Jeffrey Turner, the Duquesne Symphony Orchestra develops the understanding, technique, and discipline required of the professional orchestral musician through a broad range of repertoire from the Baroque to contemporary. Soloists often include principal and section players from the world-renowned Pittsburgh Symphony.
02/12/2012
Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble
George Vosburgh and Stephen Story conduct a program including the Concerto for Violin and Wind Ensemble by Chad Robinson (who studied with Leonardo Balada) featuring CMU concertmaster Emma Steele, and Leonardo Balada's Concerto for Piano, Winds, and Percussion with pianist Enrique Graf. The Wind Ensemble will record Balada's concerto for release on the Naxos label.
02/12/2012
NPR's "From the Top" at Carnegie Mellon
Christopher O'Riley hosts a live taping of "From the Top," NPR's showcase of the best young musicians in America. Celebrate Valentine's Day with a show of love for Pittsburgh's wealth of musical talent as outstanding young artists from CMU's preparatory school and from around Pittsburgh perform for a nationwide radio audience.
02/14/2012
Shen Yun Performing Arts
Shen Yun presents colorful and exhilarating performances of classical Chinese dance and music -- traditional Chinese culture as it once was: a study in grace, wisdom, and the virtues distilled from the five millennia of Chinese civilization. Award-winning vocalists perform with piano, and with the two-stringed erhu, also known as the Chinese violin. Shen Yun's one-of-a-kind orchestra and its all-original compositions, blend East and West like no other. Presented by Greater Philadelphia Falun Dafa Association.
02/15/2012
The Song of the Horse
Poet Samuel Hazo joins the River City Brass Quintet for a memorable evening of poetry and music.
02/16/2012
A Winter Overture
Recently named Ensemble in Residence at Heinz Chapel, OvreArts presents new works by founding composers Blake Ragghanti and Luke Mayernik as well as three other composers, with improvisational dance by the Pillow Project Dance Company. Free admission.
02/16/2012
Man of La Mancha
The classic musical Man ofLa Mancha features David Cabot as Don Quixote and Tony Marino as Sancho. Tickets: 724 832 7464.
02/17/2012
Music as Inspiration
Manfred Honeck conducts a PSO-commissioned world premiere by Composer of the Year Steven Stucky to mark the 50th anniversary of environmentalist Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." Violinist Nikolaj Znaider returns in Sibelius' transcendent Violin Concerto. Tchaikovsky's Symphony #6 "Pathétique" traverses the full range of human emotion — triumphant successes, heartbreaking personal tragedies, terrifying fears, and tender nostalgia.
02/17/2012
Music for Guitar
Guitarist Matthew Korbanic plays works by J.S. Bach, Andrew York and Robert Maggio as part of Chatham's Friday Afternoon Musicale series.
02/17/2012
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