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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Tuesday, February 14, 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
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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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 - 02/16/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA
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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
Time: 8:00 pm
Heinz Chapel, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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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
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: LeMont Restaurant on Mt. Washington, Pittsburgh, PA
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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 - 02/19/2012
02/17 - 8:00 pm
02/18 - 8:00 pm
02/19 - 2:30 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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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
Time: 4:00 pm
Laughlin Music Center, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA
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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 - 02/19/2012
Location: Greensburg Garden Civic Center, Greensburg, PA
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Lawes of Attraction
Break the lawes of love this Valentine's Day season with the enchanting sounds of Paula Fagerberg's Italian triple harp in Harp Consorts by William Lawes. Then, you'll fall in love with baroque music all over again with the quirky Ciacona by Antonio Bertali.
02/18/2012 - 02/19/2012
Time: various
02/18 - 8:00 pm
02/19 - 2:30 pm
Location: various
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Leonard Capalbo, tenor
Back by popular demand at St. Vincent, Mr. Catalbo sings modern and traditional pieces from the Italian, French and Germanic operas. Lauded for his "liquid and squillante tenor," and "commanding stage presence," Leonard Capalbo has worked closely with opera legend Marilyn Horne.
02/18/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Saint Vincent College, 300 Fraser Purchase Rd, Latrobe, PA
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Carnegie Mellon Chamber Orchestra
Ronald Zollman conducts Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, including what might be its lost second movement, plus Dvorak's Serenade for Winds, and Serenade for Strings.
02/18/2012
Location: Hillman Center for Performing Arts, Shady Side Academy, 423 Fox Chapel Rd., Pittsburgh, PA
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