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1. Artful Wednesdays: Attack Theatre
2. Apollo’s Fire: Mediterranean Nights
3. Candide
4. Light / the Holocaust & Humanity Project
5. Classical Favorites
6. Classical Mystery Tour - Music of the Beatles!
7. Stanley Jordan and Jake Shimabukuro
8. Forever Plaid
9. The Little Foxes
10. The Second City’s 50th Anniversary Tour
11. Concert of Banned Music – FREE TICKETS for Faculty/Staff
1. Artful Wednesdays: Attack Theatre
PITT ARTS
Nordy’s Place, WPU Lower Level
Wednesday, November 4, 12 Noon – 1 PM
FREE Lunch & Performance!
Attack Theatre has been making personal, accessible and collaborative dance based performances for more than a decade. Through modern dance and the use of live music, multimedia and interdisciplinary art forms, this highly trained dance company always achieves a stunningly artistic show.
For more information, visit Campus Arts Page.
2. Apollo’s Fire: Mediterranean Nights
Renaissance & Baroque
Synod Hall, Oakland
Saturday, November 7 at 8 PM
$10 Students, $15 Faculty/Staff
Purchase at 929 WPU by Friday, 3 PM!
Escape the autumn doldrums in an evening of captivating Spanish and Italian love songs, driving dances, castanets, and foot percussion. The intimate world of 17th-century tunes, ballads, and dances will set sparks flying with daring instrumental improvisations. Our sojourn explores the passionate chamber works of Castello, Marini, Uccellini, Merula and Hidalgo. Boccherini’s Fandango Quintet brings the evening to a red hot finish.
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3. Candide
Quantum Theatre
5315 Baum Boulevard, Friendship/Shadyside
November 5 – 22 (select times and dates)
$16 Students, $26 or $30 Faculty/Staff
Purchase at 929 WPU.
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler
Quantum has a thing for great music. Voltaire’s raucous satire of the earnest principles of the Enlightenment plus Leonard Bernstein’s genius makes for a completely compelling experience in 2009. Candide defies categorization - not musical theatre as we know it; not quite an opera; not really operetta or opera bouffe – it’s just itself, a sublimely sung tale of the discovery of evil and the endurance of hope.
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4. Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Byham Theater, Downtown
November 12-14
$12 Students, $17 Faculty/Staff
Purchase at 929 WPU or ONLINE HERE by Tuesday, 1 PM!
This groundbreaking production is an important artistic work that explores the universal themes of family, segregation, isolation, survival and the hope of the unconquerable human spirit. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wrote, “Some things are too large to write about, but nothing is too small.” With this passage in mind, the ballet follows one person’s journey from suffering to salvation, telling the story through symbolic movement and choreography that is often stark, athletic and raw.
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5. Classical Favorites
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Heinz Hall, Downtown
November 6, 7 at 8:00 PM
$12 Students, $17 Faculty/Staff
Purchase at 929 WPU or ONLINE HERE by Thursday, 2 PM!
Marek Janowski - conductor
Chee-Yun - violin
Mozart: Symphony No. 30, K 186b
Mendelssohn: Violin Concert
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7
This engaging program begins with Mozart’s Symphony No. 30 which has never been performed by the PSO. Mendelssohn’s sunny Violin Concerto displays the virtuosity and passionate artistry of Chee-Yun. The concert concludes with Dvorák’s glorious Seventh Symphony.
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6. Classical Mystery Tour - Music of the Beatles!
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Pops
Heinz Hall, Downtown
November 19 – 22
$12 Students, $17 Faculty/Staff
Purchase at 929 WPU or ONLINE HERE by Thursday, 2 PM!
Jim Owen - John Lennon
Tony Kishman - Paul McCartney
Tom Teeley - Geroge Harrison
Chris Camilleri - Ringo Starr
"The Long and Winding Road," "Hey Jude," "All You Need is Love," "Imagine" are just some of the songs you’ll hear when Classical Mystery Tour brings the Fab Four to Heinz Hall. Experience a reincarnation of one of the world’s most legendary bands, The Beatles, live and in concert playing each individual note exactly how it was written. "Penny Lane" with a trumpet solo and "Yesterday" with acoustic guitar and string quartet will sound phenomenal with your Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra!
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7. Stanley Jordan and Jake Shimabukuro
MCG Jazz & Guitar Society of Fine Art
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, North Side
Friday, November 13 at 9:30 PM
$25 Students, $40 Faculty/Staff
Purchase at 929 WPU.
An exciting double bill features each artist in the venerated solo format. The guitar wizardry of Stanley Jordan has taken the sonic pallet of the instrument to new levels. He has recorded several hit albums and has recently returned to performing solo.
Hawaiian-born Jake Shimabukuro performs with his native ukulele and is renowned for lightning-fast fingers and revolutionary playing techniques. His virtuosity defies label or category. Playing jazz, blues, funk, classical, bluegrass, folk, flamenco, and rock, Jake’s mission is to show that the ukulele is capable of so much more than traditional Hawaiian music, with which it is commonly associated.
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8. Forever Plaid
Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret
CLO Cabaret Theater, Downtown
Playing Now through March 28, 2010
$14 Theater Seating
Purchase at 929 WPU or ONLINE HERE. For online: You must create an account and enter promo code: 13797. Search for your show time/date, choose your seating section and number of seats (4 ticket max) and pay by credit card.
Five years after they won your hearts at the CLO Cabaret, the boys are back by popular demand from the great beyond. Don’t miss their hysterically nostalgic return as this 1950s all-male singing group is miraculously revived to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that they never got to when they were alive! Audiences will be rolling in the aisles and tapping their toes as “The Plaids” perform some of the 1950s greatest hits: “Catch a Falling Star,” “Three Coins in the Fountain,” “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing” and “Magic Moments.”
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9. The Little Foxes
Pittsburgh Public Theater
O’Reilly Theater, Downtown
November 12 – December 13
$15.50 Students, $25.50 Faculty/Staff
Purchase at 929 WPU or ONLINE HERE. For online: choose the show of your choice and enter promo code: 13681 for Student/OSHER tickets or enter promo code:13682 for Faculty/Staff when you log in.
Its juicy characters, scathing humor, and emotional fireworks have made The Little Foxes one of the absolute essentials of the American theater. Living in 1900 in the New South, the wealthy Hubbard clan will go to any lengths to get even richer. When a lucrative business venture beckons them, they turn against each other in a vicious struggle fueled by greed and the lust for power. Acclaimed actress Helena Ruoti will play the coveted role of Regina, made famous on the screen by Bette Davis.
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10. The Second City’s 50th Anniversary Tour
Pittsburgh Public Theater
O’Reilly Theater, Downtown
December 17 – 19
$15.50 Students, $25.50 Faculty/Staff
Purchase at 929 WPU or ONLINE HERE. For online: choose the show of your choice and enter promo code: 13681 for Student/OSHER tickets or enter promo code:13682 for Faculty/Staff when you log in.
The Second City is taking the party on the road to celebrate an anniversary of epic proportions: 50 years of legendary sketch comedy and improvisation. Experience the best from the comedic geniuses of The Second City, with material written by their quickest and wittiest alumni, including Alan Arkin, Robert Klein, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and more. This fast-paced and funny history lesson hilariously skewers every scandal, war, and dalliance from the past 50 years.
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11. Concert of Banned Music – FREE TICKETS for Faculty&Staff!
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Monday, November 9 at 8 PM
FREE TICKETS FOR FACULTY/STAFF ONLY! For tickets, stop by PITT ARTS at 929 WPU with your Valid Pitt ID! (Max 4 per ID)
Ronald Zollman, Music Director
MARTINU - Lidice
SCHULHOFF - Symphony No. 1
BARBER - Adagio for Strings
SCHOENBERG - The Survivor of Warsaw
MAHLER - Todtenfeier
The Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic performs powerful music written by composers both well known and long forgotten. This concert illuminates the work of prominent European-Jewish composers, whose work was banned during the Nazi regime, leading to the neglect of such pieces for nearly half a century thereafter. Their stories demonstrate incredible strength of spirit and mind in overcoming physical and emotional hardship in the face of horrific events. Remarkably, their music rarely portrays the dire circumstances under which it was written.
Nazi propaganda exposing and banning “degenerate” artists and composers eventually led to the pogrom of Kristallnacht on November 9th, 1938. Held exactly 71 years later, this commemorative Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic performance sheds light on those composers and their music.
For more information, visit www.music.cmu.edu.
