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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Friday, March 6, 2009
Salieri's "Prima La Musica"
Antonio Salieri and Mozart both wrote comic operas for a competition in Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace. Which work was better? Many thought Salieri’s. At 6:30, enjoy fine wine, finger food and opera amid the Versailles-inspired Baroque splendor of one of Pittsburgh’s finest homes. At 7:30, judge Salieri's tour-de-force in Opera Theater's English-language Salon Series production.
03/06/2009 - 03/07/2009
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Hoffstot mansion, 5057 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh (Shadyside)
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Borne With Us
This exhibition highlights fiber and mixed media quilts created by Missouri artist Kim Eichler-Messmer. Eichler-Messmer uses many different surface treatments and quilting techniques including screen-printing, appliqué, discharge and embroidery.
03/06/2009 - 05/16/2009
Location: T Station, Lobby of One Mellon Bank Center
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Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers’ appeal is that he tells it as it is. Harlem, Brown Angels, Blues Journey, and Jazz dig into African American lives and culture. He has two Newbery Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, and his Monster was a finalist for the National Book Award.
03/07/2009
Time: 10:30 am
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Stig Rossen
Danish singer/actor
03/07/2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Mt. Lebanon High School, 155 Cochran Rd., Pittsburgh, PA
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Central Europe on the Orient Express
Travel with the Johnstown Symphony through European lands without ever leaving town. Performances include Haydn's Symphony #96, "Miracle"; Liszt's Hungarian Folk Fantasy with pianist Jonathan Gonder, Smetana's The Moldau, and Kodaly's Hary Janos Suite. Istvan Jaray conducts.
03/07/2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, 450 Schoolhouse Rd., Johnstown, PA
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Revisiting the Classics
The concert will feature oboe soloist Risé Kostilnik along with works by Johann Sebastian Bach, John Barnes Chance, Percy Grainger and Paul Hindemith.
03/07/2009
Time: 8:00 pm
1 Seton Hill Drive Greensburg, PA
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Raphaella Smits
A virtuoso guitarist on six strings is impressive; add two more strings and you get a phenomenal range of possibilities. With her unique style and astonishing skills Raphaella Smiths is truly a master of historical instruments and the eight-string guitar. Her performances are astonishingly musical with a depth and sensitivity that never fails to touch her listeners.
03/07/2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Synod Hall
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The French Masters
The concert will include Faure’s Requiem and Poulenc’s Gloria. Featuring The Academy Chamber Orchestra, Katy Shackleton-Williams, soprano, Craig Verm, baritone and David Billings, organ.
03/07/2009 - 03/08/2009
03/07 - 8:00 pm
03/08 - 4:00 pm
Location: various
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The Heath Brothers featuring Jimmy & Tootie Heath
Saxophonist Jimmy Heath has long been recognized as a brilliant instrumentalist and a magnificent composer and arranger. He has performed with nearly all the jazz greats of the last 50 years, from Miles Davis to Wynton Marsalis.
03/07/2009
Time: 7:00 pm
1815 Metropolitan St, Pittsburgh, PA
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Blues, R&B, a bit of Poetry & Soul
Featuring the music of Toshi Reagon and spoken word and music by Pittsburgh artists: Vanessa German, Abafasi, Sonji.
03/07/2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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