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Alloy on Alloy

03/19/2010


Amore!
Bringing the best of Italian composers and Italian themes to life with a concert featuring works of Puccini, Rossini, Respighi and more, with soloists Alex Jones, clarinet, and Kelly Lynch, soprano. Walter Morales conducts.
03/19/2010


Whodunnit benefit
The accessAbilities Foundation will host a Murder Mystery Dinner and benefit auction featuring Western Pennsylvania's murder mystery troupe, Mystery's Most Wanted, in an interactive dinner theatre performance of "Speakeasy, Die Hard."
03/19/2010


Eddie Palmieri
The Community Foundation of Upper St Clair partners with MCG Jazz to present legendary Latin Jazz artist Eddie Palmieri. Proceeds will benefit the foundation, which supports education, recreation, and the arts in the local area.
03/19/2010


The Planets
Nature-painting at its finest, Berlioz' Harold in Italy conjures images of the Adriatic coast, with principal violist Randolph Kelly as the protagonist. Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts Holst’s frequently-requested suite, The Planets, is a stunning portrait of the astrological deities associated with Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, with the women of the Mendelssohn Choir.
03/19/2010


Pops: The Lettermen
The famous and much beloved Lettermen perform their timeless classics with the Wheeling Symphony. Goin' Out of My Head, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, The Way You Look Tonight, When I Fall In Love, Put Your Head On My Shoulder... Melodic and romantic, The Lettermen’s numerous hits endure.
03/19/2010


Duquesne University Tamburitzans
The Tamburitzans present their exciting show of Eastern European songs, music, and dance on Saturday at 7:30 pm at Gateway High School in Monroeville, and Sunday at 3:00 pm at the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center in Johnstown. Witness a kaleidoscope of sight and sound with footwork in dozens of styles and songs in many languages and dialects.
03/20/2010


University of Pittsburgh Men's Glee Club
Founded in 1890, the professional-sounding group directed by Richard Teaster has had many Johnstowners as members. An exciting collaboration with local high school choral groups is planned.
03/20/2010


Bizet's "Carmen"
Met Opera mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich is "the Carmen of this generation;" Roger Honeywell and Kelly Markgraf, as Don Jose and Escamillo, fall for Carmen and suffer the tragic consequences. Yalì-Marie Williams, as gentle Micaela, is another victim of Carmen’s love affairs. Antony Walker conducts.
03/20/2010


Newband and the Harry Partch Instruments
POSTPONED UNTIL THE 2010-2011 SEASON.
03/20/2010


Aleksandr Haskin, flute
Born in Minsk, Haskin has played with the Bolshoi Theater orchestra and Moscow Conservatory Orchestra. He is co-principal flute of the Qatar Philharmonic and a prize winner at the 2009 Young Concert Artists competition.
03/20/2010


When January Feels Like Summer
By Cori Thomas. Homeboys become heroes, a gallant garbage man rescues a shopkeeper in distress, Irfan transforms into Indira with the swipe of a lipstick, and unexpected love heats up the new year in this culture-colliding comic whirlwind. A hit at both Momentum 08 and Sundance, When January Feels Like Summer, receives its world premiere at City Theatre.
03/20/2010


Musica Pacifica: Dancing in the Isles
With rousing Baroque folk and dance music from Scotland, Ireland, and England, this program includes arrangements of traditional Irish and Scottish tunes, dance suite from English theater, Jacobean masque music, sonatas by Oswald, McGibbon, Matteis, Veracini, and Purcell's famous "Three Parts upon a Ground."
03/20/2010


A Cappella Music from Around the World
The University of Pittsburgh's Heinz Chapel Choir will be directed by John Goldsmith.
03/21/2010


Songs of Healing and Forgiveness
The WCS draws its members from Westmoreland, Fayette, Allegheny, Armstrong, and Somerset Counties under the direction of Marvin Huls.
03/21/2010


Mozart and Friends
The WSO's annual chamber concert features familiar classics from Mozart and others, directed by WSO Chamber Conductor William Galvin.
03/21/2010


Jane Parker Smith
This British organist made her Westminster Cathedral debut at age 20, and at 22 made her solo debut at the BBC Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall. She's recorded solo repertoire for RCA, Classics for Pleasure, L’Oiseau Lyre, EMI, ASV, Collins Classics, and AVIE. She collaborated with Maurice André in a renowned duo recording of music for trumpet and organ.
03/21/2010


A Musical Postcard
Circle the globe with Duke Ellington's Caravan and Coates' London Suite, then Beethoven's Piano Concerto #2, music from Miss Saigon, Harry Potter, and more. Guests include Xiaoyuan Huang, winner of Western PA Steinway Society Competition, and flutist Audrey Whartenby, winner of the McKeesport Symphony Young Artists Competition.
03/21/2010


Drue Heinz Lectures: Audrey Niffenegger
Best selling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife, “a soaring love story,” Audrey Niffenegger's second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, should be another big hit with the book club crowd. A visual artist, Niffenegger has written and illustrated two graphic novels compared in style to Edward Gorey’s work: The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress.
03/22/2010


Alice
Amid the offbeat, quirky musical stylings of Buddy Nutt, breath-taking puppets share the stage with live actors to bring this new circus-inspired vision of Wonderland to life. A Pitt Rep Theatre production adapted from Lewis Carroll by Emilia Anderson and director Tamara Goldbogen. Sam Turich, co-director.
03/24/2010


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