All Events | Starting Friday, April 5, 2013The Six Brandenburg Concertos
Conductor and harpsichordist Jeannette Sorrell leads these six masterpieces in concerto grosso form, J.S. Bach's supreme achievement in instrumental music. The Brandenburg Concertos were unknown until published on the centennial of Bach's death. Ms. Sorrell is one of the leading interpreters of Bach's music and will provide insights throughout the concert.
04/05/2013
PSO Presents Mercury Soul
Composer of the Year Mason Bates joins forces with musicians from the PSO, conductor Joshua Gersen, music director Benjamin Shwartz, director/designer Anne Patterson and Carnegie Mellon Drama. Using the innovations of modern stagecraft and club production, Mercury Soul re-imagines the classical music experience for a broad audience in extraordinary spaces, from clubs to warehouses to concert halls.
04/05/2013
East Meets West: A Musical Journey
The Grand Halle Performance Series presents its final concert of the season, with the Greater Johnstown Community Chorus, and organist Bryan Lohr.
04/05/2013
Les Ballets Trockadero
For more than 35 years, New York’s legendary all-male dance company “Keeps on Trockin” by playfully bringing the pleasures of dance to the widest possible audience. Through its skillful parodies of ballet classics and modern dance, the Trocks’ comedic brilliance lies in incorporating and exaggerating the foible, accidents and underlying congruities of serious dance.
04/05/2013
New Music with flutist Robert Dick
Legendary flutist Robert Dick joins Alia Musica Pittsburgh for its spring concert. The ensemble will play his work, Meristem, plus other new music works including the U.S. premiere of a piece by Pulitzer Prize finalist Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon.
04/06/2013
Spring Rhapsody
Spring Rhapsody, the annual dinner-auction benefiting the Westmoreland Symphony will include hors d’oeuvres, fine dining at 7:30 pm, and silent and live auctions. Greensburg's Laurel Quartet will perform.
04/06/2013
A Musical Menagerie
This concert presents favorites like Peter and the Wolf and the Fledermaus overture, among others.
04/06/2013
Fiddler on the Roof
In the village of Anatevka, the poor milkman Tevye is trying to keep his family's traditions in place. Times are changing, his daughters want to choose their own husbands. Includes the songs If I Were a Rich Man, Sunrise, Sunset; Tradition, and Matchmaker, Matchmaker.
04/06/2013
South & West of Broadway with Carrie Tillis
Singing Rodgers & Hammerstein, Porter and Berlin, Tillis (daughter of country legend Mel) captivates audiences with melodies that make many listeners ache for the old days.
04/06/2013
Time Zones: The Chaplin/Bach Encounter
The Bach Choir juxtaposes the era of its namesake, Johann Sebastian Bach, and that of writer, actor, and auteur, Charlie Chaplin. Bach Choir director Thomas Douglas combines the musical genius of Bach with the brilliant silent narratives of Chaplin's films.
04/06/2013
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
Young Artist Competition winners; Beethoven Symphony #6 "Pastoral". Warren Davidson conducts.
04/06/2013
A World of Signs
Shirli Nikolsburg’s film, "A World of Signs," won the educational award at the 2012 international film festival in Vancouver, WA with a score performed by Nikolsburg, PSO cellists Michael Lipman (her husband) and Adam Liu, and pianist Rodrigo Ojeda. The film covers a holistic approach to early education through play, American sign language, music, and visual and folk arts.
04/07/2013
Pianist Jose Ramos Santana
As part of the series, the Arts in Eastertide, following the worship service, hear Mr. Ramos Santana in a brief recital, and enjoy an architectural tour.
04/07/2013
In Two Minds
Two great traditional Irish singers, Len Graham and Brian O'hAirt perform an evening of traditional Irish song.
04/07/2013
California University Concert Band & Community Band South
The California University Concert Band (Charles Marty Sharer, director) and Community Band South (Dean Streator & James Bennet, directors) will perform separately and then join for John Philip Sousa's "Semper Fidelis."
04/08/2013
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and an author who has been requested by many audience members, presents an extraordinary finale to our season in a talk about her life and her distinguished body of work, including People of the Book, March, and her latest best-seller, Caleb’s Crossing.
04/08/2013
The Six Brandenburg Concertos
Conductor and harpsichordist Jeannette Sorrell leads these six masterpieces in concerto grosso form, J.S. Bach's supreme achievement in instrumental music. The Brandenburg Concertos were unknown until published on the centennial of Bach's death. QED's Jim Cunningham hosts a pre-concert talk at 6:30.
04/08/2013
Duets: Music for Cello and Piano
Chatham's Chamber Music Series presents cellist Michael Lipman and pianist Yeeha Chiu in Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata, Op. 18; and other works for cello and piano
04/09/2013
Our Class
In 1941, as Poland is being invaded, we meet ten schoolchildren, each one innocent and unaware of their futures as villains or victims - or both; each actor portrays a character from age 8 to adulthood. Fourteen "lessons" show how fear, envy and paranoia beget violence, murder and retribution. Music by Doug Levine & Susanne Ortner-Roberts (performed live) helps make Our Class an unforgettable experience. Directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks. Parental discretion advised.
04/10/2013
Faculty Recital
Cyrus Forough, violin, with Sung-Im Kim, piano
04/10/2013
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