Wednesday, July 5, 2023
The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble is taking drastic steps to insure its future.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:30AMThursday, June 15, 2023
Pittsburgh symphony music donate tickets foundations arts funding diversity
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:30AMFriday, June 9, 2023
The Pittsburgh Symphony’s latest premiere was a musical depiction of the steel-making process.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:09PMWednesday, June 7, 2023
Composer Maurice Ravel’s music was popular in his lifetime, but audiences grew came to associate him primarily with one tune: “Bolero.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:30AMMonday, June 5, 2023
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is adding a new position to allow for greater focus on the school’s pre-professional offerings.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:52PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Concentrating resources on the musicians rather than attempting to fully stage a production could help improve quality.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:30AMThursday, May 18, 2023
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
“We Shall Not Be Moved” originally premiered in 2017 is set in North Philadelphia in the abandoned headquarters of the MOVE organization.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:30AMSunday, May 7, 2023
The underbelly of the internet remains a dark place... In 2017, the Russian Duma criminalized the creation of pro-suicide groups.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:10PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
“In opera, if we end up telling new stories in old ways we haven’t gotten ourselves much farther down the road.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:30AMThursday, April 20, 2023
It was audition day at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, which set a recent record with the “Nutcracker,” with around 32,000 tickets sold.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:01AMSaturday, April 15, 2023
This wasn’t a typical concert, where listeners sit in silence. It was more interactive — at times for better and at times for worse.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:27PMThursday, April 6, 2023
In the 1970s, Melvin Goldman bought a tape recorder and talked through his memories of his early life and the Holocaust...
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:30AMTuesday, April 4, 2023
The play sounds a bit like a cross between a murder mystery, an art installation and a reality TV show.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:30AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
It’s a bit like if Shakespeare drafted a mistaken identity plot and threw in some infanticide on a ghastly whim.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSaturday, March 18, 2023
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Even the classical fans that still attend concerts can’t easily articulate why they like a Beethoven symphony.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMTuesday, March 14, 2023
This week, Murray appears with the Pittsburgh Symphony in Mozart’s “Requiem,” his final — unfinished — composition.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMWednesday, March 8, 2023
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Attack Theatre’s next show is “Behind Ourself Concealed,” which features contemporary dance set to a variety of jazz, folk and world music.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMThe opera on Wednesday announced its lineup for the 2023-24 season which includes “The Barber of Seville” and other favorites.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMSunday, February 19, 2023
A proposed increase in visa application fees could threaten a core practice of American arts organizations.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMThursday, February 9, 2023
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s next season includes a regular blend of story ballets and mixed repertory programs.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:43PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s “Dracula” premieres Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Benedum Center, Downtown, and continues through Sunday.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMThursday, January 26, 2023
The Mendelssohn Choir is also latest in a string of Pittsburgh arts organizations to announce a change in leadership.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
Fresh from a productive stint in Fort Worth, Tex., Adam McKinney, 46, will take over as the company’s new artistic director on March 15.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:00PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Ariodante is an opera set in Scotland about a betrothed princess who is falsely accused of sleeping with an enemy suitor.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFriday, December 30, 2022
In a professional orchestra, playing first chair can mean earning tens of thousands of dollars of additional compensation.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:00AM 
