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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Friday, March 2, 2012
Emanuel Ax & the Enigma Variations
The Washington Post describes Emanuel Ax as “an extremely satisfying pianist… always thoughtful, lyrical, lustrous.” Ax returns for Mozart's engaging Piano Concerto #22. Renowned violinist Nikolaj Znaider makes his PSO conducting debut with music from Wagner's exquisite story of insatiable desire, Tristan und Isolde. Elgar's Enigma Variations is a clever series of musical puzzles containing portraits of the composer's friends that left audiences guessing for years
03/02/2012 - 03/04/2012
03/02 - 2:30 pm
03/02 - 8:00 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Conservatory Dance Company
Featuring the works of accomplished dance faculty including Kiesha Lalama, Garfield Lemonius, Peter LeBreton Merz, Nicolas Petrov and Ron Tassone, our students shine on the stage at Point Park University.
03/02/2012 - 03/04/2012
Location: White Performance Studio, Point Park University, 201 Wood St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Pirates of Penzance
The Pittsburgh area's oldest theater company presents its 73rd annual spring production, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.
03/02/2012 - 03/11/2012
Location: Carnegie Music Hall, Carnegie, PA
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Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble
FREE.
03/03/2012
Location: Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Armitage Gone! Dance in Three Theories
Celebrated "punk ballerina" and artistic director Karole Armitage is renowned for pushing boundaries. In Karole Armitage's hands, classical dance receives a needed shock to its system with speed and fractured lines, abstractions and symmetry countermanded by asymmetry. Three Theories is an evening-length work inspired by physicist Brian Greene's best-selling book, The Elegant Universe, which Armitage uses as a means for exploring new possibilities in movement and patterning.
03/03/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Rachmaninoff's Vespers
Music Director Susan Medley conducts Sergei Rachmaninoff's a cappella choral work, the All Night Vigil (also known as Vespers), considered by many to be his finest musical achievement. The soloists will be mezzo-soprano Eva Rainforth and tenor Joseph Gaines.
03/03/2012 - 03/04/2012
Time: various
Location: various
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GSFA Guitar Night
Four exceptional guitarists representing a broad spectrum of guitar music in one great evening of live music; Ken Karsh, jazz guitar; Ricardo Marlow, Flamenco guitar; Doug Edgell, acoustic guitar; and Thomas Kikta, classical guitar.
03/03/2012
Time: 7 & 10 pm
Location: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Cristina Ortiz, piano
Brazilian pianist Cristina Ortiz has been touring, recording, and teaching internationally for over 25 years. She will play an all-Chopin program including the four Scherzos, and four Ballades.
03/05/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellfield Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Chamber Music Concert
Classical Revolution Pittsburgh presents works by Mark O'Connor, Astor Piazzolla, Sergei Prokofiev, and Lev Zhurbin. Classical Revolution presents live traditional and modern chamber music at low or no cost in highly accessible venues, such as cafes and bars. Free admission.
03/06/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: 3634 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Cats
What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an airport bookshop became one of the longest-running shows in Broadway hsitory. Winner of 7 Tonys including Best Musical, cats features 20 songs including "Memory."
03/08/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, 450 Schoolhouse Rd., Johnstown, PA
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