Happenings

Issue Date: 
March 5, 2012

Concerts

Haydn, Previn, and Mendelssohn’s “Italian,” André Previn conducting Haydn’s Symphony No. 102, Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, and the premiere of Previn’s own Triple Concerto, featuring soloists George Vosburgh, trumpet; William Caballero, horn; and Craig Knox, tuba; March 9-11, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, BNY Mellon Grand Classic, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Dervish, world/roots music, with opening act Callan, 7:30 p.m. March 10, Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Calliope Concerts, Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, www.calliopehouse.org/legends.htm.

A St. Patrick’s Pops With Natalie MacMaster,
internationally renowned fiddler, with conductor Lawrence Loh, March 15-19, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, PNC Pittsburgh Symphony Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Puro Queso Jazz Quartet,
Paul Eiss, saxophone; Jose Lavo Puentes, bass; Dylan Aragon, drums; and Victor Ruiz, guitar; noon March 16, free, Cup & Chaucer Café, ground floor, Hillman Library, Emerging Legends Series, Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, www.calliopehouse.org/legends.htm.

Exhibitions

Carnegie Museum of Natural History,
Warhol’s Cats and Dogs Series, ends June 30; M is for Museum, through Aug. 30, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, cmnhweb@carnegiemnh.org.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story, through April 7; Maya Lin, imaginative recreations of natural forms transformed into objects of contemplation, through May 13; Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood, ongoing, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art,
The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design, includes The Jacobsen American Chair Collection, a comprehensive private collection of iconic and historic chairs from the mid-1800s to pieces from today’s studio movement, through April 8, 221 N. Main St., Greensburg, 724-837-1500, www.wmuseumaa.org.

The Warhol,
About Face, a series of three-dimensional large-format portraits by photographer Anne Svenson; Warhol and Cars: American Icons, examining Warhol’s enduring fascination with automobiles as products of American consumer society, both through May 13; I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, Video, and Television, ongoing, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Hillman Library Ground Floor,
Pitt—225 Years of Building Better Lives—1787-2012, exhibition of vintage photographs, maps, and copies of pages of Pitt’s two original state charters, on loan from Pennsylvania’s state archives, through May 18; also on display in the glass Audubon case are the actual front pages of Pitt’s original state charters, University’s 225th anniversary commemoration, through May 18, 412-953-3298, 412-648-8199.

The Frick Art & Historical Center,
Draw Me a Story: A Century of Children’s Book Illustration, survey of drawing styles and techniques spanning more than 100 years, including watercolors, pen drawings, and experimental combinations from artists like Randolph Caldecott, Chris van Allsburg, Ernest Shepard, and Maurice Sendak, through May 20, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.thefrickpittsburgh.org.

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation,
Native Pennsylvania, A Wildflower Walk, collaborative
exhibition between Hunt Institute and Carnegie Museum of Natural History, through June 29, 5th floor, Hunt Library, Carnegie Mellon University, 4909 Frew St., Oakland, 412-268-2434, http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu.

Lectures/Seminars/Readings

“Skeletal Tissue Engineering and Regeneration: Adult Stem Cells, Nanofibrous Scaffold, and Biological Regulation,” Rocky S. Tuan, Arthur J. Rooney Sr. Chair in Sports Medicine, Pitt’s School of Medicine, 4 p.m. March 8, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall, Pitt Provost’s Inaugural Lecture Series, www.provost.pitt.edu.

“The Power to Define: Who Is an African/Black American?”
Jack L. Daniel, Distinguished Service Professor of Communication, Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, 4 p.m. March 13, 2500 Posvar Hall, Pitt Provost’s Inaugural Lecture Series, www.provost.pitt.edu.

“Exploring Racial Residential Segregation With a Telescope and a Microscope”
Maria Krysan, professor of sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, noon March 13, Pitt Center on Race and Social Problems (CRSP), 20th floor, Cathedral of Learning, CRSP Speaker Series, 412-624-7382.

“Poetic Unity in Aristotle,”
Wolfgang Bernard, professor, Heinrich Schliemann-Institut, University of Rostock, Germany, 4 p.m. March 16, 244B Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Department of Classics, www.classics.pitt.edu.

Miscellaneous

SWAN Day Pittsburgh 2012, showcase of female artists with world-premiere works by Pittsburgh-based dancers, musicians, poets, theater artists, visual artists, performance artists, and fashion designers, 8 p.m. March 15-16, New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side, No Name Players, 412-207-7111, www.nonameplayers.org.

Opera/Theater/Dance

The Official Blues Brothers Revue,
official tribute revue filled with blues, soul, and rock ‘n’ roll classics, 8 p.m. March 8, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.trustarts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

A Streetcar Named Desire,
John Neumeier’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams classic, March 9-11, Benedum Center, 237 7th St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, 412-281-0360, www.pbt.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

La Cage Aux Folles,
Tony Award-winning musical comedy following the story of Georges, owner of a glitzy Saint-Tropez nightclub, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza, March 13-18, Benedum Center, 237 7th St., Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.trustarts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Spirit of Uganda,
indigenous Eastern African music and dance with choreography set to music featuring layered rhythms and call-and-response vocals, 4 p.m. March 18, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.trustarts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Freud’s Last Session,
an evening of conversation between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud about God, love, sex,
and the meaning of life, through April 1, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theater, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Ruthless!
The Musical,
featuring crazy antics of a homicidal eight-year-old aspiring actress, through May 6, CLO Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret, www.pittsburghclo.org, 412-325-6766, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Pitt PhD Dissertation Defenses

Man Yan Wong, School of Medicine’s Molecular Pharmacology Graduate Program, “Delivery and Exocytosis of Neuropeptide Vesicles at the Nerve Terminal,” 9 a.m. March 8, 1395 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower.

Yll Agimi, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, “Role of State Licensing and Physician Reporting Requirements on Older Driver Safety,” 1:30 p.m. March 9, 2nd-Floor Conference Room, Graduate School of Public Health.

Khalid Awdah A. Alahmari,
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, “Vestibular Rehabilitation Using Virtual Reality and Psychometric Properties of the Balance Rehabilitation Unit Assessment Balance Device,” 9 a.m. March 14, 4014 Forbes Tower.

Feng-Ling Tsai,
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biological Sciences, “The Mcm2-7 Replicative Helicase Is Essential to Coordinate DNA Replication, S-phase Checkpoint and Sister Chromatid Cohesion,” 2 p.m. March 15, A219B Langley Hall.

Emily Wender,
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of English, “Situating Academic Readers: Emotion and Narrative in the Classroom,” 10 a.m. March 16, 501 Cathedral of Learning.

Ming Ren, School of Information Sciences’ Graduate Program in Information Science and Technology, “Advanced Map Matching Technologies and Techniques for Pedestrian/Wheelchair Navigation Systems,” 2 p.m. March 16, 502 Information Sciences Building.

Mary Lou Vercellotti, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Linguistics, “Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency as Properties of Language Performance: The Development of the Multiple Subsystems Over Time and in Relation to Each Other,” 2 p.m. March 16, 335 Cathedral of Learning.