2008 Nov 17 - Nov 23

Tuesday November 18 2008, 10:00 am
University Center, McConomy Auditorium
School of Music Masterclass
Lang Lang, piano
Performed Works List not Available
Free Admission
This masterclass was co-sponsored by Carnegie Mellon School of Music and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's department of education and community programs.
25-year-old lang Lang has played sold out recitals and concerts in every major city in the world and is the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and all the top American orchestras. He has worked with the world's best orchestra under the most renowned conductors, including Maestros Barenboim, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Jansons, Levine, Mehta, Maazel, Muti, Nagano, Ozawa, Slatkin, and Tilson-Thomas.
Lang Lang began playing piano at age of 3, won the Shenyang competition, gave his first recital at teh age of 5, and at 9 entered Beijing's Central Music Conservatory. He went on to win first prize at the Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians Competition and played the complete 24 Etudes of Chopin at the Beijing Concert Hall at 13. At 17, Lang Lang stepped in to play Tchaikovsky's Concerto for the "Gala of the Century" with the Chicago Symphony. He has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, and 60 Minutes. He has been featured worldwide in Vogue, GQ, Die Welt, Reader's Digest and People. Lang Lang has performed for amumber of global leaders such as Prince Albert 2 of Monaco, President George H.W Bush, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2, President Hu Jin-Tao of China as well as President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
Lang Lang records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon/Universal. His newest release: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&4 with Orchetra de Paris under Eschenbach debuted at #1 on the Classical Billboard Chart, and earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Soloist. Lang Lang is featured soloist on the Golden Globe winning score; "The Painted Veil" composed by Alexandre Desplat.
Lang Lang received honorary professorships at all the top conservatoried in China where he gives masterclasses regularly, as well as at Juilliard, the Curtis Institute and Hannover. He was appointed International Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) IN 2004. He currently serves on the Weill Music Institute(WMI)Advisory Committee and is a member of Carnegie Hall's Artistic Advisory Board. Lang Lang is a global brand ambassador for Audi automobiles and Montblanc, and is the Chaiman of the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award Project.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
5 PM, MCCONOMY AUDITORIUM
BARRY McGEE Life on Mars Artist
BARRY McGEE’s playfully anarchic multimedia installations combine detritus from urban culture with the considered techniques of formal artmaking. His work, reflecting punk, outsider, and folk art sensibilities, generates an ambivalent dialogue between the spontaneous and uncontrolled atmosphere of street art and the mediated “white cube” of the contemporary art gallery. Found, discarded, and recycled objects, motorized figures, audio components, and video monitors exist alongside portraits, text, assemblages of framed photographs and drawings, and sections of geometric optical color-field “wallpaper.” McGee’s installations often include his trademark images of morose, droopy, caricatured faces inspired by the transient and homeless population of San Francisco. These images form a poignant—if fleeting—commentary on the overlooked status of outsiders within a community. The temporality of his visual language and the immediacy of its communication convey a history that is continually written, erased, and written again. McGee and curator Douglas Fogle discuss the artist’s inspirations and current installation in Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International. McGee currently lives and works in his hometown of San Francisco, California.

Wed Nov 19 2008, 6:30 PM
CMU: Porter Hall 100
The Law and Popular Culture Film Series presents Court TV (selected episodes). Begun in 1991, Court TV is a network featuring continuous live trial coverage, with analysis by anchors. The network came into its own during the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial. Responding, it seems, to the public’s appetite for law enforcement/investigation-related shows, Court TV has been criticized for blurring the line between “reality” and “entertainment.”
The series provides a unique forum for members of the Carnegie Mellon and greater Pittsburgh communities to discuss the way legal issues are examined and illuminated in art and popular culture. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by actors, writers, students and legal professionals. Sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Carnegie Mellon's Pre-Law Program.

Wed November 19 2008, 7:00 pm
CMU Alumni Concert Hall
Kee-Hyun Kim, cello, Parker String Quartet

Wed Nov 19 2008, 8:00 PM
CMU: McConomy Auditorium
lecture with Antonia Juhasz
Antonia is an acclaimed writer and leading expert on the oil industry. She will be speaking about the content of her new book "The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do To Stop It".

Thu Nov 20 2008, 4:30 PM
CMU: Baker Hall 136A
The School of Design Lecture Series presents Nancy Duarte and Ryan Orcutte of Duarte Design, the designers of Al Gore's slideshow in "An Incovenient Truth." Duarte and Orcutte will discuss "how to step away from your traditional process and deliver presentations in your own uniquely human way." Nancy Duarte is principal of Duarte Design, one of the largest design and woman-owned firms in Silicon Valley. Her client list holds many top companies, including Adobe, Cisco, Google, and Hewlett-Packard. Duarte Design is widely recognized as the leader in presentation development and design. Duarte's new bestselling book, "slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations" will be available at the event. Ryan Orcutt, who has worked with Gore since 2004, works at Duarte Design as Art Director.

Thu Nov 20 2008, 5:30 PM
Pitt, Cathedral of Learning, CL 1228
The Pittsburgh Film Colloquium presents:
"A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE? ITALIAN POLITICAL CINEMA
FROM THE FIRST REPUBLIC TO THE BERLUSCONI ERA"
GIUSEPPINA MECCHIA
Giuseppina Mecchia (Ph.D Princeton, 1997, in French Language and Literature)
is Associate Professor of French and Italian and Director of the
Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
She has published a book entitled L’Ecrivain et le Politique: Le cas de Maurice
Blanchot, 1932-1968 (Rodopi, 2007). She has co-edited and translated
with Max Henninger and Tim Murphy a special issue of Sub-Stance entitled
Italian Postworkerist Thought (#112, January 2007). Her translation and critical
introduction, with Charley Stivale, of Franco Berardi Bifo’s Félix Guattari:
Encounters with a Thought to Come is now forthcoming with Palgrave
McMillan. She has given numerous papers and published essays on political
and gender issues in 20th-century French and Italian literature, political
thought and cultural politics. She is currently working on a book about the
crossing of contemporary French and Italian critical and political thought
and its resulting narrative and theoretical practices from the late mid-
1970s onward.

Fri Nov 21 2008, 4 PM
Pitt Music Building, Room 132, free
Colloquium: Markus Rathey, Associate Professor of Music History, Yale University Institute of Sacred Music
Johann Sebastian Bach’s pre-Leipzig cantatas exhibit a number of interesting compositional experiments that serve as a transition from the sacred concerto of the 17th century to the modern cantata we find in his Leipzig years. One of these highly experimental pieces is the cantata Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee BWV 18, composed around 1714. While the composition has only a single short aria, it revolves around an extensive recitative, juxtaposing sections of the soloists and quotations from the Lutheran litany.
A second unusual feature is an instrumental introduction, which is one of Bach’s earliest attempts to emulate Vivaldi’s concerto style. These two seemingly unrelated features appear in a new light if the cantata is analyzed on the background of the traditions of the litany. Both Bach’s compositional procedures and the design of the libretto reflect (and rehearse) the use and the understanding of the litany in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Markus Rathey is Associate Professor of Music History at the Yale School of Music with joined appointments at the Institute of Sacred Music and the Yale Divinity School. He is Vice President of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship and serves on the editorial board of the Bach-Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach-Society.
After studying theology, musicology, and German literature in Münster (Germany) he received his PhD in Musicology in 1998 with a thesis about Bach’s predecessor in Mühlhausen Johann Rudolph Ahle. He taught at the Universities of Mainz and Leipzig and was a research affiliate at the Bach Archive in Leipzig. In recent years he worked as a lecturer and author of program texts with conductors like Sir Neville Mariner, Helmuth Rilling, and Simon Carrington.
Professor Rathey’s publications include books about Johann Rudolph Ahle, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and an edition of the music theoretical writings by Johann Georg Ahle, which just appeared in a second and revised edition after the first edition was sold out within only one year. His articles appeared in journals like 18th Century Music, Bach-Jahrbuch, Schütz-Jahrbuch, and the Riemenschneider Bach-Journal.
His work on Bach has recently focused on his early years as a composer, and on Bach’s chorale cantatas.

Fri Nov 21 2008, 6:30 PM
Pitt, room 1501, Posvar Hall
Cinemateque screening: "Bent" Presented by Sam Pittman

Fri Nov 21 2008, 6-9 PM
Gallery Opening
Got money in the bank
a unique collaboration effort exploring perceptions of modern wealth, through painting, design, sculpture, performance and cupcakes
Old PNC Bank, 6000 Highland Rd, East Liberty
Presented by Ayanah Moors Concept Studio III: Systems and Processes

Friday November 21 2008, 5:00 pm
CMU: University Center, McConomy Auditorium
Dr. Herbert Lachmeyer, Austrian scholar
Free Admission
As part of a School of Music collaboration with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Austrian Cultural Forum, Austrian scholar Dr. Herbert Lachmeyer presents a lecture Enlightenment and Inspiring Decadence in the Court of Franz Josef the II. Part of the Vienna Days celebration, this event is free and open to the public.
Herbert Lachmayer (born in Vienna in 1948) studied philosophy, sociology and art history in Vienna, Frankfurt/Main and Berlin. Recently he is director of the Da Ponte Institute (Vienna), professor at the University of Art and Design in Linz and guest professor at the Stanford University (spring quarter 2009). Following his exhibition experience he is currently founding a PHD-program on the topic “Staging Knowledge” to exercise “imaginative rhetorics” and performative mediation of culture. Selected Exhibition activities: “Salieri sulle tracce di Mozart” (Milan. 2004/05); “Mozart. The Enlightenment Experiment in late 18th Century Vienna” (Vienna, 2006), “Wozu braucht Carl August einen Goethe?” (Weimar, 2008); September 2009 “Welt im Kopf – die Neue Lust am Speculieren” Exhibition in Form of an “Opera of Kowledge” for Linz, European Cultural Capital in 2009.

Friday November 21 2008, 6:00 pm (repeat on Sat at 10 AM)
CMU Margaret Morrison, Room 119
Parker String Quartet, School of Music Masterclass
Free Admission
Shostakovich personnel:
Jessica Hsu
Sonia Shklarov
Ai Wen Thian
Christina Roytz
Schoenberg personnel:
Sandro Leal-Santiesteban
Leo Caceres
Drew Griffin
Miti Wisuthimporn
Catherine Mikelson
Ana Zorro

Fri Nov 21 2008 - 8 PM
CMU - Alumni Concert Hall
Vivian Choi, piano recital
Not Free, maybe a $5 admission

Saturday November 22 2008, 3:00 pm
CMU Alumni Concert Hall
Carnegie Mellon Jazz Ensembles
free

Sat Nov 22 2008, 2 PM
CMU, College of Fine Arts, Room 206A
The Arts Greenhouse series on hip-hop continues with "Hip-Hop, Art & Commerce," a talk by Luqman Abdus-salaam, a long-standing member of the Pittsburgh hip-hop community with 16 years of experience as a poet, lecturer, community activist and recording artist. He will be joined by special guest Sterling Berliant, a Carnegie Mellon student with two years of experience working in the urban music department of Atlantic Records. Berliant is a member of The Famous Firm, where she works closely with Sickamore — hip-hop's highest regarded 23-year-old record industry executive. Berliant is part of a new generation of hip-hop execs that are poised to take over the reigns in a rapidly shifting industry.

Saturday November 22 2008, 8:00 pm
CMU Alumni Concert Hall
The Parker String Quartet
Daniel Chong, violin
Karen Kim, violin
Jessica Bodner, viola
Kee-Hyun Kim, cello
WEBERN Langsamer satz
BARTOK Quartet No.4
DVORAK Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51.
FREE - FREE - FREE
The New York Times calls the Parker Quartet “something extraordinary.” The Boston Globe hails their “fiercely committed performances.” The Washington Post declares them “a quartet that deserves close attention.” Just three months after winning the 2005 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Quartet captured First Prize and the Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, sparking international acclaim.
The Parker Quartet’s 2007-2008 season included debut performances at the Mostly Mozart and Caramoor Festivals and at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC (on a program with the Borromeo String Quartet). Other highlights included engagements with the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock, the Rockport Chamber Music Society, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Music in the Park in St. Paul, and Shriver Hall in Baltimore. The group also toured Europe in connection with their victory at the Bordeaux Competition, with concerts in South Korea at the Tongyeong Festival in spring 2008.
Equally at home in a celebrated concert hall or a downtown club, the Parker Quartet embraces opportunities to bring their performances to new audiences in non-traditional venues. The ensemble challenge artificial boundaries by performing in bars and clubs nationwide, garnering media attention with features in Time Out NY, The Boston Globe, Chamber Music Magazine and Musical America.com. In the Fall of 2007, the group became the first ever String Quartet in Residence at Barbes Bar and Performance Space in Brooklyn. As part of this residency, the Parker Quartet perform a series of collaborative concerts with artists of various genres including Jazz, Folk and World Music.

Sun Nov 22, 7:30 PM
Carnegie Lecture Hall
Free
The Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra often plays well beyond its members' years. Simply check out the ambitious program for a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Heinz Hall: Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra," Smetana "Moldau (Vlata)" and Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3. That's big time, and it's only fitting a member of the PSO would join to solo in the Mozart: assistant concertmaster Hong-Guang Jia.