FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Friday, April 19, 2013

Cinderella (with Orchestra)
PBT's season ends with the enchanting fairy-tale story of Cinderella choreographed by Septime Webre with dazzling sets, shimmering costumes, enchanting fairies, jesters, dragonflies, a fairy godmother, and evil stepsisters. This production features the PBT Orchestra playing Sergei Prokofiev's magnificent score.
04/19/2013 - 04/21/2013
237 Seventh St., Pittsburgh, PA
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The Nordic Sound: Norway
Chatham's Friday Afternoon Musicale series presents pianist Walter Morales in music by Halvorsen, Grieg, Sinding, and Tellefsen in honor of the Chatham University Global Focus Program’s Year of Europe: Scandinavia.
04/19/2013
Time: 4:00 pm
Laughlin Music Center, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA
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A Celebration of African-American Music & the Arts
A Celebration of African-American Music & The ARTS" will feature Jazz, Blues, Dance, Spoken Word, Gospel and Monologue. The event is co-presented by the CCAC Department of Music and The Pittsburgh Gospel Choir.
04/19/2013 - 04/20/2013
Time: 8:00 pm

Location: CCAC Allegheny Campus Gymnasium, Pittsburgh, PA
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Black Orchid String Trio - A Concert of Firsts
The trio premieres works by composers Alan Tormey, Ryan Stewart, Chris Massa, Adam Rook, and Ash Madni, and plays Elliott Carter's String Trio. The Space Upstairs is a loft above Construction Junction with entrance at the corner of Thomas and Lexington. On street parking. (Please don't use Construction Junction's lot)
04/19/2013
Time: 7:00 pm

Location: The Space Upstairs, 214 N Lexington St, Pittsburgh, PA
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Mary Flower and Colin Linden
Mary Flower, a 2008 Blues Music Award Nominee for "Acoustic Artist of the Year," is renowned for a uniquely personal vision of roots music that blends ragtime, acoustic blues, and folk styles. Linden is a singer and songwriter, a prolific record producer (Bruce Cockburn, Tom Wilson, Colin James), a guitar sideman for such stars as Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and a member of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings.
04/20/2013
Time: 7:30 pm
Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Singing City
A large-scale, city-wide historic concert event featuring Manfred Honeck and the PSO with a choir of thousands from the Pittsburgh region and beyond. Selections will include Beethoven's Ode to Joy, Verdi's Requiem, Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, a world premiere, an audience sing-along, and remarks from Cardinal Donald Wuerl,
04/20/2013
Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Petersen Events Center, University of Pgh., Pittsburgh, PA
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Hugo Trio
Inspired by the words of Victor Hugo, "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent," CMU performance majors Alexander Hettinga (viola), Jessie Nucho (flute), and Natalie Severson (harp) won the Pittsburgh Concert Society's Major Artist Auditions, and worked with Pittsburgh composer David Stock to prepare his piece "A Vanished World."
04/20/2013
Time: 7:30 pm
First Presbyterian Church, 309 Lincoln St., Johnstown, PA
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Veit Hertenstein, viola
Winner of the 2012 Young Concert Artist auditions, Veit Hertenstein won the "la Grange" prize at the Verbier Festival, and has appeared at the Marlboro and Menuhin Festivals. He'll debut this season at NYC's Merkin Hall and the Kennedy Center in DC. With pianist Pei-Yao Wang, he'll play works by Schumann, Prokofiev, Rota, Shostakovich and Piazzolla.
04/20/2013
Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Carey Performing Arts Center, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
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The Best of Verdi's Otello
Chatham's Sunday Vocal Series presents a selection of highlight's from Vardi's Shakespearean opera "Otello."
04/21/2013
Time: 3:00 pm

Location: Campbell Memorial Chapel, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA
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En Pointe
A fab fundraiser celebrates the season and the PBT dancers in style at an edgy venue. Meet the PBT musicians, professional dancers, and crew that made the 2012-2013 season possible, savor delectables, and sip bubbly.
04/21/2013
Time: 4:30 pm

Location: Peirce Studio, 807 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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