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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Thursday, March 19, 2009
The Legendary Bernadette Peters
An unprecedented force on stage, screen and TV, the incomparable Bernadette Peters continues to astound audiences with her commanding voice and versatility. A Golden Globe winner in "Pennies from Heaven," and Tony winner in "Annie Get Your Gun," and as Mama Rose in "Gypsy," Ms. Peters has dazzled audiences in "Sunday in the Park with George," "On the Town," and "The Goodbye Girl."
03/19/2009 - 03/22/2009
601 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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American Rhythms
Derek Deane's "Anything Goes" recalls Hollywood glamour of the '30s and '40s to music of Cole Porter. PBT rocks to the music of Bruce Sprinsteen in Mat Mrozewski's "Straight Life," and in a world premiere to Doo Wop hits performed live by The Drifters and Pure Gold.
03/19/2009 - 03/22/2009
Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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French Delights & Beethoven Bliss
Enjoy French music by Honegger and Milhaud in two delighful and rarely heard works. Evan Premo presents a world premiere featuring bass and violin with chamber orchestra. Beethoven's spirited Oboe Concerto and lively Symphony No. 2 will bring the concert to a rousing finale!
03/19/2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Carnegie Music Hall
A Tree Grows Strong
Parental Stress Center's Youth Performing Arts Collective (YPAC) presents “A Tree Grows Strong,” a play by Pittsburgh playwright Bob Gorczyca. The production takes a first hand look at the life of mothers told from their own experiences. Gorczyca gives candid soul stirring accounts of maternal relationships between mothers and their daughters. The examination of female bonds, from conception through their evolution, bring tribute to the lives of our grandmothers and the sacrifices they endured to hold the black family together.
03/19/2009 - 03/21/2009
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Liberty, Egality, Fraternity
Featuring music inspired by French culture, this program includes Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and Gershwin's An American in Paris.
03/20/2009 - 03/21/2009
Time: 7:00 pm
03/20 - 7:00 pm
03/21 - 7:00 pm
Location: various
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Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra
Proceeds benefit the Blackington Endowment
03/21/2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, 450 Schoolhouse Road, Johnstown, PA
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Steven Kellogg
Steven Kellogg lives in an old farmhouse and so does his Great Dane Pinkerton, the inspiration for Pinkerton, Behave! and A Rose for Pinkerton. Kellogg writes and draws about more than big dogs with over 100 books to his name, including The Pied Piper’s Magic.
03/21/2009
Time: 10:30 am
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Lucidarium: Musical Roots of Commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte, the Renaissance equivalent of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, was street theater and social commentary rolled into one. Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone—Commedia dell'arte tonight! Instruments: recorders, pipe and tabor, dulcian, hammer dulcimer, percussion, viola d'arco, viola da mano, colascione, lute.
03/21/2009
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Synod Hall, 20 N. Craig Street, Oakland
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PSO violinist Linda Fischer
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra violinist Linda Fischer and pianist Rosilee Walker Russell play Beethoven's "Spring" Sonata, Bloch's "Vidui," Gershwin songs arranged by Jascha Heifetz, and miniatures by Fritz Kreisler. A reception will follow the recital.
03/21/2009
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Highland Park
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Choir of Men and Boys, St. Thomas Church
NYC's St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys will sing music of Gibbons, Byrd, Purcell, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Howells. Organist Frederick Teadro will play two solos; a Bach Fantasia and a Scherzo by Duruflé.
03/21/2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Calvary Episcopal Church, 315 Shady Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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