FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Sunday, January 29, 2012

Noah Bendix-Balgley in Recital (SOLD OUT)
(SOLD OUT) The Pittsburgh Symphony's new concertmaster gives his first Pittsburgh-area recital with pianist Rodrigo Ojeda in a free concert presented by The Diskin Music Fund.
01/29/2012
Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Temple Emanuel, 1250 Bower Hill Rd., Mt. Lebanon

Duquesne Symphony Orchestra
Jeffrey Turner conducts, with guest pianist David Allen Wehr.
01/29/2012
Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Music for Flute, Harp & Piano
Music by Mozart, Bizet, Ungar, and others, played by flutist Tara Yaney, harpist Christine Mazza, and pianist Bill Larson with flutist Stephanie Ashman.
01/29/2012
Time: 3:00 pm
605 Morewood Avenue Pittsburgh, PA
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Michele Norris and Isabel Wilkerson
Michele Norris and Isabel Wilkerson reveal personal memories and historic insights about the 20th century migration of African-Americans from southern points of origin to northern cities like Pittsburgh. Wilkerson's award-winning history, The Warmth of Other Suns, recounts poignant stories of leaving everything behind for a better life, and Norris's memoir, The Grace of Silence, about her own family's journey, is painful but triumphant.
01/30/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Doomsdays of Our Lives…Hindsight is 2012
Princeton's famous Triangle Club presents its newest musical extravaganza, Doomsdays of Our Lives…Hindsight is 2012. Triangle's recent successes include Family Feudalism, Store Trek, and Stark Raven Mad! Triangle alumni include Jimmy Stewart, Booth Tarkington, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joshua Logan, José Ferrer, Wayne Rogers, David Kelley, and Brooke Shields.
01/31/2012
Time: 7:30 pm

Location: New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PA
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Billy Elliot: The Musical
This is a joyous celebration of one young boy's journey to make his dreams come true. Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls BILLY ELLIOT “The most inspiring show I've seen in Years.” Set in a small town, the story follows Billy as he stumbles out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class, discovering a surprising passion that inspires his family and his whole community. Based on the hit film, BILLY ELLIOT has a cast of 45, a Tony Award-winning creative team, and music legend Elton John, who has written what the New York Post calls "his best score ever."
02/01/2012 - 02/12/2012
Benedum Center, 237 7th St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Carnegie Mellon Chamber Orchestra
Ronald Zollman conducts Frank Martin's Overture in Homage to Mozart, featuring Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, Michael Colgrass' A Letter from Mozart, and Mozart's Symphony #40. (Wednesday at Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh; Friday at Palace Theater, Greensburg)
02/01/2012 - 02/03/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
02/01 - 8:00 pm
02/03 - 8:00 pm

Location: various
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Romeo and Juliet: State Ballet Theater of Russia
From Voronezh, this company of 65 brings a brand-new production of Romeo & Juliet set to the classic score by Prokofiev and chorographed by Mikhail Lavrosky, former principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, and now a choreographer for the Bolshoi and other companies.
02/01/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, 450 Schoolhouse Rd., Johnstown, PA
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Mid-Strut
When her longtime husband, Jack, has an affair, Wendy finds herself at a crossroads. Then, an admirer from her baton-twirling glory days three decades earlier seeks to once and for all kindle his unrequited love. Also named Jack, this charming man sweeps the former majorette off her feet. Funny, real and poignant, Eric Burns' world-premier play strikes a very human chord. Ronald Allan-Lindblom directs the world premiere of this 2010 Eudora Welty Emerging Playwrights' Award winner.
02/02/2012 - 02/19/2012
222 Craft Avenue Pittsburgh, PA
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Brahms' Requiem
Grammy Award-winning American baritone Thomas Hampson makes a long-overdue return to the PSO in Dvořák's beautiful Biblical Songs, based on various psalms. Hampson then joins soprano Chen Reiss, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Manfred Honeck and the PSO in Brahms' A German Requiem (in German), filled with quiet moments of tenderness and sweetness as wll as powerful peaks of emotional intensity.
02/03/2012 - 02/05/2012
02/03 - 8:00 pm
02/04 - 8:00 pm
02/05 - 2:30 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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