Happenings

CONCERTS

Tchaikovsky Festival Recital: Music and Melancholy, Richard Kogan, lecture and solo piano performance, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2, Levy Hall at Rodef Shalom Temple, 4905 Fifth Ave., Oakland, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, performing Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3 with soloist Rebecca Theophanous, and Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, 8 p.m. Feb. 2, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

Tchaikovsky Festival Recital: The Virtuoso Tchaikovsky, solo piano performances and Souvenir de Florence string sextet, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3, Kresge Recital Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, College of Fine Arts Building, 5000 Forbes Ave., www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

The Moonlighters, old-time Appalachian and roots music, noon Feb. 4, The Cup & Chaucer Café, ground floor, Hillman Library, Emerging Legends Concert Series Spring 2011, Pitt University Library System, Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, www.calliopehouse.org.

Huun Huur Tu, Tuvan throat-singing ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4, First Unitarian Church, 605 Morewood Ave., Shadyside, The Consortium, The Calliope Folk Music Society, 412-361-2262, www.calliopehouse.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Music on the Edge: Cellist Dave Eggar, 8 p.m. Feb. 4, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

Matsuev Plays Tchaikovsky, Pitt Russian Night with conductor Gianandrea Noseda and pianist Denis Matsuev, 8 p.m. Feb. 4-6, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats for Feb. 4, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Tchaikovsky Festival: “Tchaikovsky the Man” Screening and Conference, with screening of Ken Russell’s The Music Lovers (1970) and performance of Piano Trio in A Minor, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 5, Pitt’s Bellefield Hall, advance registration for free event at 412-392-4828, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

EXHIBITIONS

Frick Art Museum, Frick Art & Historical Center, Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings From the Blanton Museum of Art, featuring more than 60 drawings produced over a 400-year period, Feb. 5-April 17, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.frickart.org.

Carnegie Museum of Art, André Kertész: On Reading, photography exhibition, through Feb. 13; Ordinary Madness: James Lee Byars at Carnegie Museum of Art, through Feb. 20;  Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, Feb. 5-May 1, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

Hillman Library Latin American Lecture Room, 75th Anniversary of the University of Pittsburgh Press (UPP), selection of books representing the expanding range of UPP publications over the years, through Feb. 18, UPP and University Library System, 412-383-2493, mes5@pitt.edu.

Mattress Factory, Queloids: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art, through Feb. 27, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, 412-322-2231, www.mattress.org.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture, In My Father’s House, mixed-media exhibition about how African Americans collect and preserve their culture, through June, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

LECTURES/SEMINARS/READINGS

“The Intractable Career of James Crow III,” Robert Hill, Pitt vice chancellor for public Affairs, noon Jan. 31, School of Social Work Conference Center, 20th floor, Cathedral of Learning. Reed Smith Spring 2011 Speaker Series, Pitt Center on Race and Social Problems, 412-624-7382, www.crsp.pitt.edu.

“The Queer Art of Failure,” Judith Halberstam, Pitt Humanities Center fellow, 5 p.m. Jan. 31, Ballroom B, University Club, Pitt Humanities Center, Women’s Studies Program, 412-624-6485, www.wstudies.pitt.edu.

“Low Theory: Losing Hope and Finding Nemo,” colloquium, Judith Halberstam, Pitt Humanities Center fellow, 12:30 p.m. Feb. 1, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Humanities Center, Women’s Studies Program, 412-624-6485, www.wstudies.pitt.edu.

“USAID Party Development Program,” Scott Morgenstern, professor, Pitt Department of Political Science, noon Feb. 2, 4130 Posvar Hall, CLAS Lecture Series, Pitt Center for Latin American Studies, 412-648-7392, clas@pitt.edu.

“Research on Syphilis in Guatemala in the 1940s: History, Context, and Contemporary Concerns,” panel discussion with Susan M. Reverby, professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College; Sue Lederer, professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Medical History and Bioethics; and David Barnard, professor, Pitt School of Medicine, School of Law, and Center for Bioethics and Health Law, 1-3 p.m. Feb. 2, A115 Crabtree Hall, Pitt Graduate School of Public Health, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, 412-578-9193, 412-586-9764.

“The Future of Queer Studies,” open forum for undergraduates, Judith Halberstam, Pitt Humanities Center fellow, 4 p.m. Feb. 2, also 3 p.m. Feb. 3, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Humanities Center, Women’s Studies Program, 412-624-6485, www.wstudies.pitt.edu.

“Teahouse, Brothel, and Street Corner: Venues and Songs of a Hong Kong Blind Singer,” Bell Yung, Pitt professor of music, noon Feb. 3, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Series, Pitt Asian Studies Center, 412-648-7370, asia@pitt.edu.

“Dude, Where’s My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping,” discussion with Judith Halberstam, Pitt Humanities Center fellow, 4 p.m. Feb. 3, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Humanities Center, Women’s Studies Program, 412-624-6485, www.wstudies.pitt.edu.

“Transgenders in a Global Frame,” Judith Halberstam, Pitt Humanities Center fellow, 2 p.m. Feb. 4, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Humanities Center, Women’s Studies Program, 412-624-6485, www.wstudies.pitt.edu.

MISCELLANEOUS

CIDDE CourseWeb Level 1 Workshop, instructions on Pitt’s implementation of the Blackboard Learning Management System, 2-4 p.m. Jan. 31, also 2-4 p.m. Feb. 2, B23 Alumni Hall, register online at www.cidde.pitt.edu.

THEATER

The Well of Horniness by Holly Hughes, directed by Jeremy Enz-Doerschner, and Authorial Intent by Itamar Moses, directed by Allison Coldeway, Pitt Repertory Student Lab double feature, Feb. 2-6 and 11-13, Studio Theatre, Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Repertory Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts, 412-624-6568, www.play.pitt.edu.

Traces, written and directed by Gregory Kahlil Kareem Allen, through Feb. 5, 7th-Floor Auditorium, Alumni Hall, Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 412-624-8498, www.kuntu.org.

Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, tale about the courage of King Arthur, the beauty of Guinevere, and the chivalry of Sir Lancelot, through Feb. 20, Pittsburgh Public Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org.

PITT PhD DISSERTATION DEFENSES

Rebecca L. Gonda, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biological Sciences, 9:30 a.m. Feb. 1, “Phosphorylation of Drosophila Slipper at a Conserved MAPK Motif Is Required for Response to Heat Stress,” A219B Langley Hall.

Louis Michael Thomas, School of Medicine’s Immunology Graduate Program, 3 p.m. Feb. 2, “P2X7 Activation of Nonprimed Myeloid Cells Promotes the Shedding of Stimulatory Materials Within Microvesicles,” 1095 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower.