FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Sunday, May 26, 2013

Phillips Family in Concert
Todd and Daniel Phillips of the Orion String Quartet. soprano Amy Philllips, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor, and violinist Catherine Cho perform music by Beethoven, Schubert, Isaye and Saint-Saëns along with two premieres by Pittsburgh composer and musical patrriarch Eugene Phillips--Quintetto Concertante for soprano, flute, two violins and viola, and Suite for Viola and Bass Flute featuring a giant flute sounding two octaves below the standard instrument.
05/26/2013
Time: 3:00 pm

Location: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh Piano Trio
Performance by the Pittsburgh Piano Trio with light fare and dessert provided. Reservations required.
05/28/2013
Time: 6:30 pm

Location: Mansions on Fifth, 5105 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Other Desert Cities
Lyman Wyeth is an actor-politician in the Ronald Reagan mold. His impeccable wife Polly never has a strand of hair out of place. Now retired, their life in a wealthy Palm Springs enclave is upset when relatives arrive for the holidays. Son Trip is a TV reality show producer; Polly's sister Silda is a wisecracking liberal just out of rehab; most troubling is daughter Brooke, who announces that she is about to publish a revealing memoir. This 2012 Tony-nominated Broadway sensation by Jon Robin Baitz is an entertaining look at unruly family politics. Rob Ruggiero directs.
05/30/2013 - 06/30/2013
O'Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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The Kreutzer Sonata
Pozdynyshev, an enigmatic stranger in a smoky rail car, weaves a tale of love, loss and betrayal. His sensuous wife plays piano while his old friend plays violin, the Kreutzer Sonata between them, powerful and evocative. Was Beethoven's music the soundtrack to their illicit passion, or has Pozdynyshev made a terrible mistake? Irish playwright Nancy Harris adapted Tolstoy's classic novella into a theatrical experience. Richard McMillan stars, Alan Stanford directs.
05/30/2013 - 06/22/2013
Stephen Foster Memorial Pittsburgh, PA
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Honeck, Mozart & Mahler
Manfred Honeck's Mahler journey continues with the Symphony #7, one of the highlights of the season. This grand work, composed at a tumultuous time in the composer's life, is sad yet triumphant and features two “night music” movements and is extremely gratifying for the musicians and audience alike. The concert begins with Mozart's “A Little Night Music."
05/31/2013 - 06/02/2013
05/31 - 8:00 pm
06/01 - 8:00 pm
06/02 - 2:30 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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42nd Street
Broadway razzle-dazzle at its best. Fired from her first Broadway show, starry-eyed actress Peggy Sawyer thought she’d never see her name in lights, but fate had other plans. Come and meet those dancing feet in this Tony Award®-winning musical. The toe-tapping, foot-stomping score includes such classics as "We’re in the Money," "42nd Street" and "Lullaby of Broadway."
05/31/2013 - 06/09/2013

Location: Benedum Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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Flute Recital
Suzanne Levinson, flute, with Raymond Blackwell, piano & baritone, and Margaret Kenney, oboe & English horn, in a program by French, Dutch, Australian, American, Bohemian, and British composers. 412 882-9300.
06/01/2013
Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Baldwin United Methodist Church, 5001 Baptist Rd., Pittsburgh, PA

Artists on Art Gallery Talk: Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Get to know the intriguing artists creating exceptional work in our own backyard. AAP award-winners Nancy McNary Smith, Erika Osborne, and Chuck Johnson discuss their art and the works of their peers.
06/02/2013
Time: 2:30 pm
4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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