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  • 5 days ago | post-gazette.com | Jeremy Reynolds

    WQED Multimedia, the owner of Pittsburgh’s local PBS television station as well as its classical music radio station, has announced the suspension of its Creator Academy, a digital media youth education program, due to federal funding cuts.

  • 1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Jeremy Reynolds

    If you were to add up the operating budgets of a dozen of Pittsburgh’s largest arts organizations, its museums and symphony and others, you’d come up with a figure within spitting distance of the entirety of the National Endowment for the Arts’ total budget. The NEA is the federal agency responsible for dispensing dollars to artists and arts organizations around the country. Founded in 1965 by President Lyndon B.

  • 1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Jeremy Reynolds

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Moon Doh will take the helm in Butler in October Jeremy Reynolds Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Butler County Symphony Orchestra has appointed Moon Doh — currently the associate conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra — as its new music director, the organization announced on social media Tuesday. The small regional orchestra, the BCSO performs a variety of classical music, pops and educational programming at Butler Area High School throughout the concert...

  • 1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Jeremy Reynolds

    Yes, Virginia, there are new operas still being written. But quite a few of them might work better as straight plays rather than operas. Let’s consider Pittsburgh Opera’s season-ending production, a world premiere about a famous art heist that really happened in 2013. “Woman With Eyes Closed” is Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon’s second opera and sports a libretto by playwright Jerre Dye.

  • 2 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Jeremy Reynolds

    Heinz Hall, the home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, isn’t actually a concert hall. Or at least, it wasn’t built that way. It’s actually an old movie palace built in 1927 that had significant renovation work done to make it more suitable for unamplified orchestral sound. The same can be said for Pittsburgh’s other performance venue Downtown, the Benedum Center, built in 1928 and used by Pittsburgh Opera and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre.

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Back on the music beat after a year away. "Would you walk 500 miles to get away from that tune? Will your poker face crack the thousandth time it plays in your head? Do you value the sound of silence?" https://t.co/ZQJ5imjHUB