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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Saturday, March 3, 2012
Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble FREE. 03/03/2012
Location: Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA website
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 website
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 website
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 website
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 website
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 website
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 website | map
A Streetcar Named Desire
03/09/2012 - 03/11/2012 237 Seventh St., Pittsburgh, PA website | map
Previn, Haydn, and Mendelssohn’s "Italian" Former PSO Music Director André Previn (1976-1984) gives the premiere of his own Triple Concerto for Trumpet, Horn and Tuba featuring three principals from the PSO brass section. The Grammy, Oscar and Kennedy Center Honoree also conducts Haydn's Symphony #102 “Miracle” and Mendelssohn's vibrant “Italian” Symphony. 03/09/2012 - 03/11/2012 03/09 - 8:00 pm 03/10 - 8:00 pm 03/11 - 2:30 pm Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA website | map
Masterworks III: Piano Forte with Biegel and Zwilich Featuring piano soloist Jeffrey Biegel, André Raphel conducts "Shadows," a co-commissioned work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich that reflects the migration of the human spirit. Also scheduled, Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, and Schubert's Symphony #9 (The Great C Major). 03/09/2012 Capitol Theater, 1015 Main St., Wheeling, WV website | map
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