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All Events | Starting Monday, April 22, 2013Art Songs and Interludes
A free community concert featuring new works, new composers, and a few surprises.
04/23/2013
The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival marks its 10th anniversary with “The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds,” a multimedia chamber opera by Ofer Ben-Amots inspired by the Yiddish tale of love and mystical possession. This new adaptation is presented by the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Music for the Spirit Festival, with stage direction by Aron Zelkowicz, choreography by Joan Wagman, and video by Sheri Wills. The performers are soprano Yahli Toren, clarinetist Gilad Harel, baritone Guenko Guechev, actor Leon S. Zionts, Texture Contemporary Ballet, and the Pappert Women’s Chorale & Children's Festival Chorus directed Christine Jordanoff, Music Director. "The Dybbuk" is in Hebrew, with English supertitles.
04/25/2013
Charlie Chaplin with Tom Roberts
The Manor Theater presents pianist Tom Roberts and special guests performing Tom's original scores to "The Rink" and "One AM," two silent Charlie Chaplin classics from 1916. The Pittsburgh Symphony commisioned these scores for its 2012 Paris Festival.
04/25/2013
Romeo & Juliet
Directed by Don Wadsworth, Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare's most-beloved romantic tragedy, comes to life in a brutally modern American setting amidst civil unrest and street brawls. Despite the violence, two star-crossed lovers find sanctuary in each other's embrace but the fury of their love is no match for the fury of an ancient feud. Romeo & Juliet is one of the most timeless stories of love, loyalty and sensuality.
04/25/2013
Joe Negri Jazz Guitar Scholarship Benefit
A benefit cocktail reception (6pm), and dinner (7pm) to endow the Joe Negri Jazz Guitar Endowed Scholarship with performances by Mr. Negri and various local jazz greats.
04/26/2013
Beethoven's Ninth, "Ode to Joy"
In this 'Music for the Spirit' concert, Manfred Honeck and the PSO pay tribute to the good in mankind. Beethoven's final symphonic masterpiece, one of the most recognizable pieces of all time, takes its text from Friedrich Schiller’s poem, "Ode to Joy." The PSO also premieres Christopher Theofanides' "The Gift," commissioned by the PSO to honor long-time Board Chair Richard P. Simmons.
04/26/2013
Music of Michael Jackson
André Raphel conducts the music of the King of Pops from the earliest Jackson 5 to his mega-selling solo years. Vocalist Gavin Hope sings the hits Billie Jean, Thriller, Bad, and Man in the Mirror. Gavin Hope has shared the stage with Shania Twain, Natalie Cole, James Brown and Aretha Franklin.
04/26/2013
Glass Roots - Summer Flower Show
Designed by Phipps Exhibit Coordinator Jordyn Melino, Glass Roots features artists of the Pittsburgh regio, who have made vines and blooms of glass, stained-glass towers lit from within, a glass wooly mammoth skeleton, a variety of vases, oversized glass Chinese lantern seed pods, Queen Anne’s lace-inspired glass flowers, abstract birds, water lilies and reeds, a tall glass sunflower, and more.
04/27/2013
Art All Night
Art All Night, 22 hours of art and music, is called one of Pittsburgh’s most popular, and populist, arts events. Hundreds of artists enter more than a thousand works in the show, and they’re displayed by hundreds of volunteers. The show features live music, children’s activities, and more. It opens at 4pm on Saturday, and runs through 2pm on Sunday. Classical WQEDfm will broadcast live onsite, Sunday morning, 9 to noon.
04/27/2013
10th Annual Three Rivers Community Band Festival
Enjoy the Community Band South, East Winds Symphonic Band, and Metropolitan Italian Symphonic Band in concert. Then, Samuel R. Hazo conducts the 2013 Regional Festival Band. WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham provides commentary as M.C. Free.
04/27/2013
Dirty Ball
Join up with the league of heroic partiers and supercharge Attack Theatre at The Dirty Ball. Revel in your secret identity, marvel at the company's daredevil acts of dance, and groove to electrifying beats by Titletown Soul & Funk Party and Pandemic.
04/27/2013
Rossini's La Cenerentola
The fairy story with the glass slipper and golden carriage becomes an enchanting opera that replaces special effects with the real magic of true love and goodness. Despite her evil stepsisters, Angelina (Vivica Genaux) manages to be the belle of the ball, thanks to the wise Alidoro (Joseph Barron) and a beautiful bracelet. After the ball, the prince (Arthur Espiritu) finds his princess and sees her true beauty: the ability to forgive. With Paolo Pecchioli as Don Magnifico. Antony Walker conducts.
04/27/2013
A little bit of this, and a little bit of that
Ron Nelson's "Mayflower Overture" depicts the Pilgrims' travel to the New World. Pittsburgh's own Joseph Wilcox Jenkins is featured in his "Tartan Suite". Minnesota composer John Zdechlik's "Psalm 46" celebrates a famous Lutheran hymn, and director Jason Worzbyt closes with a heartfelt "America the Beautiful."
04/27/2013
Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra - All Strings
A string orchestra program including Britten's Simple Symphony, Barber's Adagio, Mendelssohn's String Symphony #1, and Nancy Galbraith's Zelo featuring soprano and emcee Anna Singer of Classical WQED-FM 89.3. Thomas Octave conducts.
04/28/2013
Daria Burlak, organ
Church of the Epiphany presents award-winning organist Daria Burlak, making her first concert tour of the USA with works by Dupre, Durufle, Messaien and others. The church is next to the Consol Energy Center, downtown.
04/28/2013
Americana
The Renaissance City Winds and guest Bill Troxler, hammer dulcimer, will perform traditional and original tunes. Troxler, a resident of Chincoteague Island, VA, is Music Coordinator for the Chincoteague Cultural Alliance and can be heard on several CDs. The Winds will also play American chamber music by Samuel Barber, Gunther Schuller, and Eric Barndollar.
04/29/2013
QED Cooks Big Night 6-Course Dinner
When: Monday, May 6, 2013
Venue: D'Imperio's Restaurant, Monroeville
Time: 6pm
$150 Single ticket
Credit Card Only. Non-refundable.
Big Night Menu:
Bruschetta
Crespelle 'Mbusse (Wet Crepes)
Risotto Tricolore
Timbale
Porchetta Roast
Tiramisu
05/06/2013
The Tenors in Concert
**SOLD OUT**
When: Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Venue: Byham Theater
Time: 8pm
Regular
$75 Single ticket
$150 Pair tickets
Ochestra/Director’s Circle
Credit Card Only, Non-Refundable
06/19/2013
Chautauqua: Straight No Chaser in Concert – Overnight Bus Trip
Chautauqua: Straight No Chaser in Concert – overnight bus trip
Date: Saturday, June 22, 2013- Sunday, June 23, 2013
Location: Chautauqua
Time: 8:15pm
*Depart Saturday morning, June 22; arrive for lunch. Check into hotel and enjoy the grounds. Have dinner and see SNC in concert. On Sunday, have breakfast then leave to return to Pittsburgh.
Regular
$400 Single (single occupancy)
$750 Pair (double occupancy)
General Admission Seating
Credit Card Only, Non-Refundable
06/22/2013
The Divinas
The Divinas in Concert
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013
Venue: QED Theater
Time: 8pm
Meet & Greet
$90 Single ticket
$180 Pair tickets
General Admission Seating
Credit Card Only, Non-Refundable
Regular
$60 Single ticket
$120 Pair tickets
General Admission Seating
Credit Card Only, Non-Refundable
Presents Deadline: Friday, June 7, 2013
09/26/2013
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