INSIDE Pitt garners praise in Princeton Review...... 2 Arts & Culture section...... 3-11 PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume XI • Number 24 • September 13, 2010 Pitt’s Building Our Future Together Capital Campaign Exceeds $1.5 Billion By John Harvith “The impact of the extraordinary The University of Pittsburgh’s Building difference those dollars have made—in Our Future Together capital campaign— the lives of hardworking Pitt students generosity of Pitt’s supporters already the largest and whose achievements are most successful fundrais- a source of great hope for extends well beyond the total ing campaign in the his- the future; in the work of tory of Western Penn- Pitt’s outstanding faculty number of actual dollars raised. sylvania—has exceeded $2 BILLION whose pioneering research a record-breaking $1.5 impacts the ways in which What is more important is the billion in gifts and pledges we live and contributes enormous difference those dol- and remains on track to to the greater good; in hit its $2 billion goal as dramatic enhancements lars have made—in the lives of Ernest Sosa scheduled, Pitt Chancellor $1.5 BILLION to the learning and work- Mark A. Nordenberg said. ing environment, through hardworking Pitt students whose The campaign, whose transformational facili- initial goal of $500 million ties projects on all five of achievements are a source of Ernest Sosa Is Inaugural was doubled to $1 billion our campuses; and in the great hope for the future...” in June 2002 and doubled $1 BILLION quality and impact of Pitt Recipient of Pitt’s yet again in June 2006 programs that are changing —Mark A. Nordenberg to $2 billion, continues and improving individual to provide the Univer- lives on a daily basis and Prestigious Rescher Prize sity with growing levels that also add vibrancy to When the Pitt Board voted to raise of endowed scholarship, $500 MILLION our home communities.” the campaign goal to $2 billion, it stated By Patricia Lomando White fellowship, and faculty P i t t ’s B o a r d o f that “for the past decade, the University support as well as other Trustees has noted that of Pittsburgh has made unprecedented The University of Pittsburgh has named key investments in Pitt’s the campaign has thus far academic progress, as is reflected by such Ernest Sosa as the inaugural recipient of its people, programs, and “added substantially to measures as the significant increase in the recently established Nicholas Rescher Prize facilities, which are criti- the academic growth and number of applicants seeking admission to its for Contributions to Systematic Philosophy. cal in these times of eco- stature of the University programs, the much stronger qualifications Named in honor of Distinguished University nomic challenge. by providing support for of enrolled students, dramatically elevated Professor of Philosophy Nicholas Rescher, “The impact of the talented and deserving levels of research funding, and the special who has been on Pitt’s faculty since 1961, extraordinary generos- students, committed and forms of recognition earned by its faculty, the prize consists of a gold medal together ity of Pitt’s supporters high-achieving faculty students, and alumni,” all fueled by the with a cash award of $25,000. extends well beyond the total number of members, programs of quality and impact, Board’s 1996 public commitment to secure “Through this prize, the University actual dollars raised,” Nordenberg said. and facilities that are essential to the for the University an adequate resource base of Pittsburgh not only is honoring the “What is more important is the enormous achievement of our institutional goals.” by “dramatically improving efforts to attract still-growing legacy of Professor Rescher, private funding to an institution whose but also, by honoring the life’s work and programs clearly are worthy of generous important contributions of other major support.” philosophers, hopes to bring to philosophy The Board also has stated that the the same recognition afforded to leaders Pitt Receives $9.8 Million From National Institute campaign funds are “to be used to support in other disciplines through well known the people and programs of the University of and widely respected awards,” said Pitt On Aging to Study Insomnia in the Elderly Pittsburgh in ways that further enhance its Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. “We impact and add to its already proud legacy” have long been the direct beneficiaries of By Megan Grote Quatrini and that it “remains firmly committed all that Professor Rescher—a giant in the to its statement of aspiration” adopted in world of philosophy and one of the most The University of Pittsburgh has our AgeWise study.” February 2002: “By aggressively supporting committed, respected, and beloved mem- received a $9.8 million grant from the Monk stressed the need for this the advancement of Pitt’s academic mission, bers of our faculty—has done to elevate National Institute on Aging to study research in older adults because of the we will clearly and consistently demonstrate the University through the excellence and insomnia in older adults. Insomnia affects prevalence of insomnia in this population, that this is one of the finest and most impact of his work. Our shared hope now nearly 25 percent of seniors and, in more age-related changes in physiology and brain productive universities in the world.” is to elevate the public’s appreciation of severe forms, can lead to reduced quality structure that are relevant to sleep-wake To date, Pitt’s campaign has enjoyed philosophy through this award that bears of life, impaired function, higher health processes, and the many comorbidities that widespread support, attracting its current his name.” care costs, and increased risk often accompany advancing total of more than $1.5 billion from 158,003 Born in Cuba in 1940, Sosa earned of other medical conditions. age. He points to a societal donors. Of those donors, nearly 50 percent his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in The goal of the five-year imperative, too, as the baby- are non-alumni. Another important mea- 1964. From that time until 2007, he taught AgeWise study is to better boom generation reaches its sure of the success of any campaign is the at Brown University. He then joined the understand the biological seventh decade of life. number of donors who have made commit- Department of Philosophy at Rutgers Uni- causes of insomnia in seniors. The AgeWise researchers ments of $1 million or more, and here the versity, which he had visited as a distin- “The strength of this are seeking people who are total of 275 such gifts is noteworthy. guished professor for a decade prior to his research project is that we older than 60 and who have The Building Our Future Together appointment. At Rutgers he is now Board of simultaneously can attack difficulty falling asleep or stay- campaign has made a lasting impact on Governors Professor of Philosophy. the problem on several dif- ing asleep, or who feel poorly the lives of numerous students and faculty “It is an unexpected but most fortunate ferent fronts,” said Timothy rested despite having adequate through the creation of 1,273 new endowed development that the inaugural realization H. Monk, the project’s lead opportunity for sleep. Those funds: of this internationally oriented award should research investigator and a who are eligible for the study • 458 new endowed scholarship funds strike so close to home,” said Rescher, “for will be given a detailed health when Pitt’s doctoral program in philosophy professor of psychiatry in Timothy H. Monk for a total of 875, an increase of 109 percent the University of Pittsburgh screening, which will include a in the number of such funds; was reorganized in the early 1960s, Ernie School of Medicine and direc- sleep evaluation. Before and after • 34 new endowed fellowships for a was one of its very first products. His dis- tor of the Human Chronobiology Research insomnia therapy, they will participate in total of 92, an increase of 58 percent in the tinguished career has long been a source Program at the Western Psychiatric Institute one of three different detailed laboratory & Clinic (WPIC) of UPMC. “Insomnia in evaluations lasting several days. Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 seniors can result from biological clock Compensation will be provided for problems, sleep-intensity problems, stress completing the study. Those interested and arousal issues, the functional anatomy should contact the AgeWise toll-free of the patient’s brain, and particular issues number 1-866-647-8283. Some healthy Pages 3-11 of her or his genetic makeup. All of these seniors without sleep problems also will different research issues will be covered in be recruited.

2 • Pitt Chronicle • September 13, 2010 Pitt’s Capital Campaign Pitt Scores in Latest Princeton Exceeds $1.5 Billion Review College Guide Continued from page 1 number of such funds; billion and continuing on our path to our • 109 new endowed faculty chairs or $2 billion goal, this campaign is helping to professorships for a total of 183, an increase propel the University forward, giving the of 147 percent in the number of such funds; institution the resources it needs to solidify and its role among the world’s most respected • 672 new named student and faculty universities,” added fellow Pitt alumnus, resource endowments used to support such trustee, and campaign cochair Eva Tansky activities and programs as research projects, Blum (A&S ’70, LAW ’73). research travel, book purchases, and student “The supporters of this campaign can academic projects for a total of 1,012, an take pride in knowing that their investments increase of 197 percent. in our University will have a lasting impact Campaign contributions also have on generations of students, will enhance the been critical to the University’s ongoing economic strength and add to the overall campus improvement efforts. During the vitality of our home communities, and also past decade, Pitt has completed 1,751 capital will have an impact on the quality of life improvement projects with a total value of in more distant locations,” said Pitt Vice $1.14 billion. These projects have resulted Chancellor for Institutional Advancement in nearly 2.2 million square feet of new or Albert J. Novak Jr. “This milestone in our renovated facilities. ongoing quest to build an even better Pitt “We know that a successful campaign is was achieved mainly through the hard work crucial to building an enduring foundation and dedication of our trustees, alumni, for long-term University support through administration, and the countless volunteers endowments, planned giving opportunities, who embrace our cause,” added Clyde B. and other investment opportunities,” said Jones III, Pitt vice chancellor for health Pitt alumnus, trustee, and campaign cochair sciences development. Burt Tansky (A&S ’61). “By raising $1.5 MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE Pitt freshmen during this year's orientation

In the Best Quality of Life category, Pitt is ranked second and Pitt’s Prestigious Rescher Prize Virginia Tech first among the public schools; in the Happiest Students Continued from page 1 category, Pitt is ranked second and Clemson University first among of pleasure and pride to Pitt philosophers.” Rescher’s many honors include the “Pitt’s philosophy program is interna- Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Human- the public schools. Among all schools, public and private, Pitt is tionally recognized for the strength of its istic Scholarship in 1983, the Belgian Cardi- scholarship and internally recognized for the nal Mercier Prize in 2005, and the Thomas number eight in the Happiest Students category and number 11 in far-reaching value it provides Aquinas Medal of the American to our students,” Pitt Provost Catholic Philosophical Asso- Best Quality of Life. and Senior Vice Chancellor ciation in 2007. An honorary Patricia E. Beeson said. “The member of Oxford’s Corpus By John Harvith Rescher Prize reflects the Christi College, Rescher has seriousness of Pitt’s commit- been elected to membership in The University of Pittsburgh is ranked sors are both surprisingly eager to involve ment to philosophy as a vital the American Academy of Arts as one of the top two public institutions in students and are sincerely interested in our discipline.” and Sciences, the European the United States in the categories Best happiness and success.” … “In essence, ‘Pitt Sosa has served as a presi- Academy of Arts and Sciences, Quality of Life and Happiest Students in the provides all the resources of a large research dent of the American Philo- The Royal Society of Canada, new 2011 edition of The Princeton Review’s university (which it is), but [it] also retains sophical Association (Eastern the Institut International de The Best 373 Colleges (Random House/ a small college atmosphere with its Honors Division) and as editor of the Philosophie, the Academie Princeton Review). College to provide the best opportunities prestigious journals Nous and Internationale de Philosophie In the Best Quality of Life category, for its students.’ … ‘There are opportuni- Philosophy and Phenomeno- des Sciences, and the Royal Pitt is ranked second and Virginia Tech first ties to do everything…for a reduced price,’ logical Research. Elected to Nicholas Rescher Asiatic Society of Great Britain among the public schools; in the Happiest including attending professional sporting the American Academy of Arts and Ireland. His contributions Students category, Pitt is ranked second and events. Moreover, ‘PITT ARTS provides… and Sciences in 2001, he delivered the John to philosophy have been recognized by Clemson University first among the public free arts activities on weekends.’ As one Locke Lectures at Oxford in 2005 and the the award of honorary degrees from eight schools. Among all schools, public and sophomore sums up, ‘Pitt is the smallest big Paul Carus Lectures at the American Philo- universities on three continents. private, Pitt is number eight in the Happiest school, and the campus is truly the city.’” sophical Association in 2010. His work is Rescher is the author of more than 100 Students category (others include Brown, the subject of John Greco (ed.), Ernest Sosa books in many areas of philosophy—more Stanford, Colgate, and Yale) and number 11 and His Critics (2004). His contributions to than a dozen translated into other lan- in Best Quality of Life (others include Rice, epistemology—and to virtue epistemology guages—and hundreds of journal articles. Bowdoin, Washington University in St. in particular—are widely appreciated as a He has been editor for more than three Louis, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, groundbreaking unification of ideas from decades of the American Philosophical Barnard, and Smith). PittChronicle epistemology, value theory, and ethics. Quarterly, which he founded, and has served According to The Princeton Review, Newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh The Rescher Prize for Contributions to as editor of both the History of Philosophy the Best Quality of Life ranking was based Systematic Philosophy sustains comparison Quarterly and the Public Affairs Quarterly. on responses from students to several ques- PUBLISHER Robert Hill with other prestigious prizes—the Pulitzer In the earlier years of his career, tions relating to “food on and off campus, ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith Prize, administered by Columbia University Rescher worked extensively in symbolic dorm comfort, campus beauty, ease of EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer and valued at $10,000, and the Fields Medal and philosophical logic. His innovations in getting around campus, relationship with EDITOR Jane-Ellen Robinet in mathematics, administered by the Inter- this field include the “Rescher quantifier” the local community, campus safety, the ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener national Mathematical Union and valued at as well as the “Rescher-Dienes implication surrounding area, interaction between STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake $15,000. relation” with the “Rescher-Manor conse- students, friendliness and happiness of the John Fedele Rescher is a former president of the quence relation.” Over the years, some dozen student body, and smoothness with which Morgan Kelly American Philosophical Association, the books and monographs have been published the school is administered.” Amanda Leff American Catholic Philosophical Associa- on his philosophical work. The Happiest Students ranking was Anthony M. Moore tion, the American Metaphysical Society, Born in Hagen, Germany, in 1928, based on “students’ assessments of their Patricia Lomando White the G.W. Leibniz Society of America, and Rescher immigrated to the United States at overall happiness.” A Princeton Review CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Megan Grote Quatrini the C.S. Pierce Society. He also has served the age of 10. He attended Queens College news release states that the rankings are HAPPENINGS EDITOR Jane-Ellen Robinet as an officer of the International Federa- in New York City, majoring in mathematics, “entirely based on The Princeton Review’s tion of Philosophical Societies, an organ of and earned his PhD in philosophy at Princ- survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by UNESCO. eton University in 1951, at the age of 22—the campus on average) attending the colleges University News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, At Pitt, Rescher chaired the philoso- youngest person ever to do so in the history in the book and not on The Princeton Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895, phy department in 1980-81. He is currently of Princeton’s Department of Philosophy. Review’s opinion of the schools.” E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.chronicle.pitt.edu cochair of the University’s Center for Phi- Rescher served in the U.S. Marine In its overall write-up on Pitt, The losophy of Science, along with its founder, Corps from 1952 to 1954 and was sub- Princeton Review states that students The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal Adolf Grünbaum, Andrew Mellon Professor sequently employed in the mathematics at the University applaud the “brilliant opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any of Philosophy of Science at Pitt, who has division of the Rand Corporation in Santa professors doing fantastic things in their basis prohibited by law. been Rescher’s colleague ever since helping Monica, Calif., from 1954 to 1957. He left fields.” It adds comments from several to recruit him to Lehigh University in 1957. Rand for Lehigh University in 1957. students that “Administrators and profes- September 13, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 3

Race and Racism In Cuban Contemporary Art

Curated by Pitt’s Alejandro de la Fuente & Elio Rodriguez Valdés

October 15, 2010- February 27, 2011 Queloides/Keloids a Ñ e É P en UNTITLED, 2008-09, R 4 • Pitt Chronicle • September 13, 2010 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series Opens Sept. 29 Racism in Contemporary Cuba Explored in Mattress Factory Exhibition, Cocurated by Pitt’s Alejandro de la Fuente

By Patricia Lomando White

The Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers By Amanda Leff Ritchie Series will open its 2010-11 season with a Oct. 5 reading by the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature 2010-11 William Block Senior Writer Following a successful run in Havana, Prize winner Tina May Hall, at 8 p.m. Sept. 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium Cuba, the exhibition Queloides/Keloids: 29 in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium. Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Speakers in this year’s series include Mark Kurlansky, 2010-11 William Block Art is making its way to The Mattress Fac- Mark Kurlansky, the 2010 William Block Senior Writer. In addition to writing Salt tory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. Senior Writer and author of such notable and Cod, Kurlansky is the author of The Queloides is cocurated by Alejandro de titles as Salt (Penguin, 2002) and Cod (Vin- Last Fish Tale (Ballantine Books, 2008). la Fuente, a University Center for Interna- tage, 1997), and Michael Thomas, the Fred tional Studies research professor of history R. Brown Literary Award winner and author Nov. 4 and Latin American Studies, and Cuban of Man Gone Down (Grove Press, 2006), 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium artist Elio Rodríguez Valdés. The exhibi- which narrates the struggle of a young father tion will open Oct. 15 and continue through in a biracial marriage working towards the Kimiko Hahn, author of several collections Feb. 27 at the North Side contemporary Top: Ceiba Negra, 2010, by Elio Rodríguez. Above: a portion American Dream. of poetry, including The Artist’s Daughter installation-art museum. Cosponsored by (W.W. Norton, 2004), Mosquito and Ant of La angustia de las influencias, by Armando Mariño An Arizona native, Hall graduated with Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies a BA in creative writing from the University (W.W. Norton, 2000), Narrow Road to the (CLAS) within the University Center for of Arizona. She later earned her MFA from Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006), and Toxic International Studies (UCIS), the exhibition gender, nationalism, and globalization, in Bowling Green State University and her PhD Flora (W.W. Norton, 2010). addresses the debate about the persistence of addition to 11 other artists renowned for from the University of Missouri-Columbia. racism in contemporary Cuba and through- their critical work on issues of race, dis- Hall has been nominated three times for Nov. 11 out the world. crimination, and identity. a Pushcart Prize. Her stories have appeared Fred R. Brown Literary Award Reading While taking steps to eliminate inequal- The Queloides promotional materials or are forthcoming in The Minnesota 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium ity, the Cuban revolution suppressed discus- help explain the meaning behind the exhibi- Review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior sions of race, claiming that discrimination tion’s name: “Keloids are wound-induced, Review, Water-Stone Review, and Fairy Tale Michael Thomas, 2010 Fred R. Brown had been forever eliminated from the island. pathological scars. Although any wound Review, among other journals. She currently Literary Award winner, will give a reading After decades of being considered taboo, may result in keloids, many people in Cuba resides in Clinton, N.Y., where she teaches of his work. discussions about race and racism occur believe that the black skin is particularly at Hamilton College. more openly in contemporary Cuba. In the susceptible to them. Thus the title evokes The Drue Heinz Literature Prize recog- March 24 early 1990s, artists, scholars, and writers in the persistence of racial stereotypes, on nizes and supports writers of short fiction Black Nature: Four Centuries of African Cuba began to do the unthinkable: denounce the one hand, and the traumatic process of and makes their work available to readers American Nature Poetry the persistence of racial discrimination in dealing with racism, discrimination, and around the world. The honor includes a cash Reading by the editor, Camille T. Cuban socialist society. centuries of cultural conflict, on the other prize of $15,000, and Hall’s short-story col- Dungy, and guest contributors: 7 p.m., “Queloides is the answer of a group hand. Queloides/Keloids includes several lection, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., of Cuban visual artists and intellectuals to art forms—paintings, photographs, instal- will be published by the University of Pitts- Downtown. these changing realities,” says de la Fuente. lations, sculptures, videos—and offers burgh Press this fall. On March 25, there will be a discussion Artists such as the ones showcased in Que- novel ways to ridicule and to dismantle the The complete schedule for the 2010-11 with Dungy at 2 p.m. in Room 501 of the loides, he continued, “have tried to articulate so-called racial differences.” Pittsburgh Writers Series follows. Cathedral of Learning. an answer to the deteriorating racial situation Funders for the exhibition include the in Cuba. It is the protest of a generation that Christopher Reynolds Foundation, Inc., the Sept. 29 April 7 grew up in a mostly egalitarian society and Ford Foundation, the Lambent Foundation, Drue Heinz Literature Prize Reading and 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium that then witnessed how that society col- the National Endowment for the Arts, the Award Ceremony lapsed in front of their eyes. Pennsylvania Humanities Council, The 8 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium Lydia Davis is the author of The End of “Since its conception, the exhibition Pittsburgh Foundation, and Pitt’s Central the Story: A Novel (Picador, 2004), Samuel has been a product of collaboration between Research Development Fund, CLAS, UCIS, Tina May Hall, 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Johnson Is Indignant (Picador, 2002), and Cuban artists and intellectuals and Ameri- Humanities Center, World History Center, Prize recipient. Varieties of Disturbances (Farrar, Strauss, can institutions, such as Pitt’s CLAS and and the Dean of the School of Arts and Giroux, 2007). the Mattress Factory museum,” adds de la Sciences. Renata Adler, 2010 Drue Heinz Literature The 2010-11 Pittsburgh Contemporary Fuente. “We wanted to bring the exhibit to On Oct. 14, Pitt will host a roundtable Prize judge, is the author of the novels Writers Series season is cosponsored by Pittsburgh because race and racism are not discussion with several of the artists fea- Speedboat (HarperCollins, 1976) and Pitch Pitt’s Writing Program, Book Center, Uni- issues unique to Cuba. We hope people here tured in the exhibition. The artists will Dark (Perennial, 1983), as well as several versity Library System, and University of will learn more about Cuba, but we also hope discuss their participation in Queloides as books of nonfiction, including Irreparable Pittsburgh Press. that Cuban artists get a chance to learn more well as issues of race and culture in con- Harm (Melville House, 2004), detailing the All events in the Writers Series are free about American society and culture.” temporary Cuba. The free public discussion Supreme Court’s decision to uphold George and open to the public. For more informa- The exhibition displays the work of will be held from noon to 2 p.m. in 4130 W. Bush as the winner of the U.S. 2000 tion, contact Jeff Oaks at [email protected] or cocurator Valdés, whose work explores race, Posvar Hall. presidential election. visit www.english.pitt.edu. September 13, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 5 CALENDAR A One-Man Archy & Mehitabel, Heymann Theatre, through Sept. 19

SEPTEMBER Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 99th Annual 15 Member Exhibit, Memorias del Subdesarrollo, film directed Carnegie Museum of by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1968), 6:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, free, Cuban Eyes/ Art, through Sept. 19 Cubanize: Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema Since the Cuban Revolution Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, www. [email protected]. 16 Bella Notte With Renee Fleming, cel- ebrated soprano joins Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conductor Manfred Honeck, 7:30 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Special Per- formance, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsym- phony.org, Pitt ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624- 4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. 13 Triple Espresso, story of failure-prone I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, comedy trio trying for its big break, through Video, and Television, exhibition showcas- 18 Jan. 9, Cabaret at Theater Square, 101 Sixth ing the largest installation of Warhol’s media Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra With Sean St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, works, ongoing, Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Jones, resident music company of the August 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org, PITT ARTS Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www. Wilson Center, 8 p.m., August Wilson Center Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt. warhol.org. for African American Culture, 980 Liberty edu. Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Beat ’Em Bucs: The Story of the 1960 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org, Pitt ARTS A One-Man Archy & Mehitabel by Gale Pirates, exhibition, through January, Senator Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt. McNeeley, showcase of banter, song, and solil- John Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman St., edu. oquy inspired by Tom Marquis’ Depression- Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhisto- era comic strips, through Sept. 19, Heymann rycenter.org. Lisa Lampanelli, comedian, 8 p.m., Heinz Theatre inside Stephen Foster Memorial, Pitt Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Heinz Hall Repertory Theatre, 412-624-7529, www.play. Special Presentation, Pittsburgh Symphony pitt.edu. Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsym- phony.org. In My Father’s House, mixed-media exhibi- tion about how African Americans collect and preserve their culture, ongoing, August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. Beat ’Em Bucs: Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 99th Annual Member Exhibit, through The Story of the Sept. 19; Forum 65: Jones, Koester, 22 Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation, 1960 Pirates, Heinz IonSound Project, classical musicians who through Oct. 3; Past Meets Present: History Center, through bring contemporary music to life, noon, Nor- Decorative Arts and Design, ongoing, dy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt Union, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Jan. 2011 Pitt ARTS’ Artful Wednesdays, 412-624-4498, Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org. www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Newberry Consort: The Loves of Life: A Journey Through Time, Frans Queen Elizabeth, string ensemble and Lanting’s lyrical interpretation of life on soprano Ellen Hargis perform music of Earth, through Jan. 9, Carnegie Museum of 24 the Elizabethan court, 8 p.m., Bellefield Film and the End of Empire, international Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oak- Auditorium, Renaissance & Baroque in land, 412-622-3131, www.carnegiemnh.org. conference exploring the history of moving association with Pitt’s Film Studies Pro- images in the British Empire, through Sept. 26, gram, 412-361-2048, University Club, Pitt’s Film Studies Program, The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases www.rbsp.org. From a State Hospital Attic, exhibition 412-624-6564, www.filmstudies.pitt.edu. of items and photos from suitcases that were filled with personal belongings of former Honeck & Beethoven’s Fifth, with Manfred patients who resided in Willard Psychiatric Honeck, conductor; Yuja Wang, piano; through 20 Sept. 26, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Down- Center, New York, through Sept. 25, Annie Barrows, coauthor of The Guernsey town, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, BNY Frick Fine Arts Gallery, Univer- Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, sity of Pittsburgh, Mental Health Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, www. 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, pittsburghsymphony.org, Pitt ARTS’ Pitt Night America/Allegheny County, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, www.suitcaseexhibit. is Sept. 24, Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. Drue Heinz Lectures, 412- pittarts.pitt.edu. org. 622-8866, www. pittsburghlec- The Art of Structure, exhibition about histor- tures.org. ically radical methods of building bridges and concrete structures, through Jan. 17, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org. 6 • Pitt Chronicle • September 13, 2010

13th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration, Hunt Library, through Dec. 17

Helianthus, Last sunflower, watercolor on paper by Fiona Strickland (Scotland), 59 x 49 cm, 2008. Hunt Institute collection, gift from the artist. © 2008 Fiona Strickland/All Rights Reserved Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Carnegie Mellon University SEPTEMBER Continued

The World of Jewtopia, 29 Ferla-Marcinizyn & Godfrey Trio, clas- Byham Theater, sical guitar artists and flutist, noon, free, Sept. 25-26 Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt 1 Union, Pitt ARTS’ Artful Wednesdays, “Playing for Peace: 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Reggae-Rap and Hip- Folk Among African “Bauhaus Ghost Stories: Spirit and 30 Migrants in Ukraine,” Photography Versus Abstraction and “Asian ‘Trade’ Routes: Com- by Humanities Center Modern Design,” lecture by Elizabeth modities, Networks and Fellow Adriana Helbig, Otto, assistant professor of art history at Intangibles,” lecture by Stewart 12:30 p.m., 512 Cathe- State University of New York at Buffalo, Gordon, University of Michigan dral of Learning, Pitt’s 5 p.m., 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt senior research scholar, noon, 4130 Humanities Center Department of the History of Art and Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Colloquium Series, Architecture, 412-648-2421. Lecture Series, Pitt’s Asian Studies [email protected], and World History centers, 412-648- www.humcenter.pitt.edu. University of Pittsburgh Symphony 7370 or [email protected]. Orchestra, free performance of Mozart’s Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton-Callaway in Sinfonia Concertante, featuring Wil Snead Vampiros en Habana, directed by BOOM! and Wei Zhao; Michael Tippett’s Concerto for Juan Padrón (1985), 6:30 p.m., Frick Tony Award- Double String Orchestra, 8 p.m., Bellefield Fine Arts Auditorium, free, Cuban Eyes/ nominated sisters who Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, Cubanize: Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema bring alive the voices 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu. Since the Cuban Revolution Film Series, of Joni Mitchell, the Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, Beatles, and others, Tina May Hall, 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Department of Hispanic Languages and OBER9:30 p.m., Manchester Prize winner, 8 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Audito- Literatures, www.amigocinelatinoameri- Craftsmen’s Guild Hall, rium, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, [email protected]. 1815 Metropolitan St., Pitt’s Department of English, [email protected] or Manchester, 412-322- visit www.english.pitt.edu. The Royal Family by George S. 0800, www.mcgjazz. 13th International Exhibition of Botani- com, Pitt ARTS Cheap cal Art & Illustration, features 110 watercol- Kaufman and Edna Ferber, through Oct. Esperanza Spalding and Her Chamber 31, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Seats, 412-624-4498, ors, drawings, and prints, through Dec. 17, 5th Music Society, 25-year-old prodigy-turned- www.pittarts.pitt.edu. floor Hunt Library, Carnegie Mellon Univer- Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theater, pro unveils her modern chamber music group, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org, Pitt ARTS sity, 4909 Frew St., Oakland, Hunt Institute 7:30 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth Ave., Honeck & Bronfman, for Botanical Documentation, 412-268-2434, Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pit- Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Cohen tarts.pitt.edu. featuring works by http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu. & Grigsby Trust Presents Series, 412-456- Strauss, Bartók, and 6666, www.pgharts.org, Pitt ARTS Cheap Mozart, through Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Oct. 3, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony 25 Orchestra, BNY The World of Jewtopia, Bryan Mellon Grand Classics, Fogel’s multimedia extrava- 412-392-4900, www. OCT ganza, 8:30 p.m.; also 2 p.m. pittsburghsymphony.org, Sept. 26, Byham Theater, 101 University of Pittsburgh Pitt ARTS Cheap Seats, Sixth Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-624-4498, www. Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, pittarts.pitt.edu. www.pgharts.org, Pitt ARTS Bellefield Hall, Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, Sept. 29 www.pittarts.pitt.edu. 2 The Art of Vatican Splendors: the Structure, A Journey Through Faith and Art, exhibi- Carnegie Museum of tion through Jan. 9, Senator John Heinz His- Art, through tory Center, 1212 Small- Jan. 2011 man St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www. heinzhistorycenter.org. 4 Mary Karr, poet and memoirist, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, Honeck & 4400 Forbes Ave., Beethoven’s Oakland, Drue Heinz Lectures, 412-622-8866, Fifth, www.pittsburghlectures. Heinz Hall, org. Sept. 24-26 September 13, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 7 CALENDAR

The Barber of Seville, Heinz Chapel Choir Benedum Fall Concert, Center, Heinz Memorial Oct. 9, 12, Chapel, 15, 17 Oct. 10 9 15 The Barber of Seville by Queloids: Race and Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Racism in Cuban Cesare Sterbini, also Oct. 12, Contemporary Art, 15, and 17, Benedum Center, exhibition featuring 803 Liberty Ave., Downtown, 12 artists renowned Pittsburgh Opera, 412-456- for their critical work 6666, www.benedumcenter. on issues of race, org, Pitt ARTS’ Pitt Night discrimination, and is Oct. 15, Pitt ARTS Cheap identity; cocurated by Seats, 412-624-4498, www. Alejandro de la Fuente, pittarts.pitt.edu. UCIS research profes- sor of history and A Golden Age: Music of Latin American stud- Tudor & Jacobean England, featuring a ies, through Feb. 27, 5 cappella ensemble Stile Antico, 8 p.m., Calvary Mattress Factory, 500 Mark Kurlansky, 2010 Fred R. Brown Liter- Episcopal Church, 315 Shady Ave., Shadyside, Sampsonia Way, North ary Award winner, 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Renaissance & Baroque in association with Side, Pitt’s University Auditorium, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Calvary Episcopal Church, 412-361-2048, Center for Interna- Series, Pitt’s Department of English, oaks@ www.rbsp.org. tional Studies, Center pitt.edu or visit www.english.pitt.edu. for Latin American Studies, 412-322-2231, 10 www.mattress.org. Heinz Chapel Choir Fall Concert, free “Teaching Faulkner,” a lecture by Julia 6 11 Stern, Northwestern University, 12:30 p.m. Howie Alexander Trio, eclectic mix of musical performance, 3 p.m., Heinz Memorial An Evening With 526 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s Humanities traditional and contemporary jazz, noon, free, Chapel, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624- David Sedaris, one Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt 4125, www.music.pitt.edu. Center Colloquium Series, [email protected], of America’s preemi- www.humcenter.pitt.edu. Union, Pitt ARTS’ Artful Wednesdays, 412- nent humor writers, 8 DBR: Woodbox Beats & Balladry, 624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. featuring p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 innovative composer, violinist, and bandleader Ordinary Madness, exhibition from muse- Penn Ave., Downtown, um’s holdings of contemporary art, through Diamanda Galas in Concert, avant-garde Daniel Bernard Roumain, 6 p.m., August Heinz Hall Special vocalist, pianist, composer, and performance Wilson Center for African American Culture, Jan. 9, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Presentation, Pittsburgh Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org. artist, 8 p.m., New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cul- Symphony Orchestra, Square East, North Side, 412-320-4610, www. tural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. 412-392-4900, www. newhazletttheater.org. pittsburghsymphony. org. 16 David Sedaris Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott in Recital, renowned cellist and British pianist, respec- 7 tively, 8 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., “An Update of Japanese Databases and Downtown, Heinz Hall Special Presentation, The Fabulous 13 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392- Effective Methods to Find Articles,” lec- Eduardo Trassierra Trio, contemporary 4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. ture by Hiroyuki Good, Japanese bibliographer ’50s With Marvin flamenco, noon, free, Nordy’s Place, Lower for Pitt’s East Asian Library, noon, 4130 Posvar Hamlisch & Level, William Pitt Union, Pitt ARTS’ Artful Hall, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, Pitt’s Nancy Wilson, world-renowned vocalist, 9:30 Wednesdays, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt. p.m., Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Hall, 1815 Asian Studies Center, 412-648-7370 or asia@ Sha Na Na, edu. pitt.edu. Metropolitan St., Manchester, 412-322-0800, Heinz Hall, www.mcgjazz.com, Pitt ARTS Cheap Seats, Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. La Ultima Cena, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Oct. 7-10 commentator, New York Times columnist, and Alea (1976), 6:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Audito- author of The World Is Flat, 8 p.m., Heinz Hall, The 39 Steps, thriller adapted by Patrick rium, free, Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Years 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Robert Morris Uni- of Cuban Cinema Since the Cuban Revolution Barlow from Hitchcock movie and John versity’s Pittsburgh Speakers Series, 412-392- Buchan novel, through Oct. 24, City Theater, Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American 4900, www.pittsburghspeakersseries.org. Studies, Department of Hispanic Languages 1300 Bingham St., South Side, 412-431-2489, and Literatures, www.amigocinelatinoameri- www.citytheatrecompany.org. [email protected]. 14 The Fabulous ’50s With Marvin Hamlisch Miel para Oshun, directed by Humberto & Sha Na Na, put on your bobby socks and 18 Solás (2001), 6:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Audi- Justice Stephen Breyer, associate justice of saddle shoes, through Oct. 10, Heinz Hall, 600 torium, free, Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony the U.S. Supreme Court, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Years of Cuban Cinema Since the Cuban Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Orchestra, PNC Pops! 412-392-4900, www. Revolution Film Series, Pitt’s Center for pittsburghsymphony.org, Pitt ARTS Cheap Heinz Lectures, 412-622-8866, www.pitts- Latin American Studies, Department of burghlectures.org. Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Hispanic Languages and Literatures, www.amigocinelatinoamericano@gmail. com.

“Queloides: Race and Racism in 20 8 The Pillow Project, innovative Pittsburgh Between Women, a discussion of the book Cuban Contemporary Art—A Conver- contemporary dance company, noon, free, Nor- by Sharon Marcus, Columbia University, sation With Cuban Artists,” round- dy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt Union, 12:30 p.m., 526 Cathedral of Learning, table discussion with artists participating Pitt’s Humanities Center Colloquium Series, Pitt ARTS’ Artful Wednesdays, 412-624-4498, in Mattress Factory museum exhibition that www.pittarts.pitt.edu. [email protected], www.humcenter.pitt.edu. explores race and racism in Cuba (see follow- ing entry), noon to 2 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, Pitt Center for Latin American Studies, Pitt’s Humanities Center, www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas. 8 • Pitt Chronicle • September 13, 2010

"Japanese Kokeshi Dolls" Posvar Hall, Oct. 21 OCTOBER Continued Queloids: Race and Havanyork, directed by Luciano Larobina (2009), 6:30 p.m., Frick 1 Racism in Cuban Fine Arts Auditorium, free, Cuban Madhur Jaffrey, Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Years of actress, cookbook author, Contemporary Art, Cuban Cinema Since the Cuban and world authority Mattress Factory, Revolution Film Series, Pitt’s on Indian food, 7:30 Center for Latin American Studies, p.m., Carnegie Music through Feb. 27, 2011 Department of Hispanic Languages Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., and Literatures, www.amigo- Oakland, Drue Heinz [email protected]. Lectures, 412-622-8866, EMBERwww.pittsburghlectures. org. Phantom of the Opera, timeless story is adapted for student performances, through 28 Oct. 24, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth Ave., “The Paradox of Poetic Repeti- Downtown, Pittsburgh Musical Theater Byham tion,” lecture by Cecile Chu-Chin 2 Series, 412-456-6666, www.pittsburghmusi- Sun, professor in Pitt’s Department South Pacific, Rogers cals.com. of East Asian Languages and Litera- and Hammerstein’s tures, noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia classic, through Nov. 7, Over Lunch Lecture Series, Pitt’s Benedum Center, 803 Asian Studies Center, 412-648-7370, Liberty Ave., Downtown, 22 [email protected]. Pittsburgh Cultural Music on the Edge: Cikada Ensemble Trust, PNC Broadway From Norway, musical performance, 8 “Let Plunder: Altamirano’s Across America, 412- p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, free for Pitt Mexico and the Problem of 471-6070, www.pgharts. students with ID, Pitt Department of Music, Paramilitarism,” lecture by org. 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu. Joshua Lund, Pitt Humanities Center Fellow, 12:30 p.m., 512 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s through Oct. 24, Benedum Center, 803 Liberty Humanities Center Colloquium NOV 3 Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Series, [email protected], www. Guaracha, 5-piece Salsa 412-456-6666, www.benedumcenter.org, Pitt humcenter.pitt.edu. band, noon, free, Nordy’s 21 ARTS’ Night is Oct. 22, Cheap Seats, 412-624- Place, Lower Level, “Japanese Kokeshi Dolls: Shifting Signi- 4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Slasher, theatrical performance, William Pitt Union, Pitt fiers and Wooden Tradition,” lecture by through Nov. 7, Charity Randall ARTS’ Artful Wednes- Jennifer McDowell, doctoral candidate in Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, days, 412-624-4498, Pitt Department of Anthropology, noon, 4130 Pitt Repertory Theatre, 412-624- www.Pittarts.Pitt.edu. Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, 23 0933, www.play.pitt.edu. Pitt’s Asian Studies Center, 412-648-7370 or For My Best Beloved Sister Mia: An University of Pitts- [email protected]. Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret burgh Symphony Cameron, exhibition features family photo- Orchestra, free musi- East of Havana, directed by Lajauretsi graphs by one of Victorian Era’s best-known 29 cal performance of Saizarbitoria (2001), 6:30 p.m., free, Mattress photographers, through Jan. 2, Frick Art & Sarah Chang Plays Bruch, also Beethoven’s Symphony Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side, Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point works by von Weber, Tower, and No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Years of Cuban Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.frickart.org. Ravel, 8 p.m.; also 2:30 p.m. Oct. 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Cinema Since the Cuban Revolution Film 31, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Auditorium, Pitt Depart- Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Stud- Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony ment of Music, 412-624- ies, Department of Hispanic Languages and Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand 4125, www.music.pitt. Literatures, www.amigocinelatinoamericano@ 24 Classics, 412-392-4900, www. edu. gmail.com. Marilyn Monroe: Life as a Legend, exhibi- Pittsburghsymphony.org, Pitt ARTS tion through Jan. 2, Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. Elizabeth Gilbert, New Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www. pittarts.pitt.edu. York Times-bestselling with Leonard Slatkin, conductor, and Olga warhol.org. author of Committed and Kern, piano, through Oct. 23, Heinz Hall, 600 Eat, Pray, Love, 8 p.m., Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 31 Ave., Downtown, Robert 412-392-4900, www.Pittsburghsymphony.org, 27 Hubert Laws, flutist who has mas- Morris University’s Pitt ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. Namoli Brennet, transgender singer and tered jazz, pop, and rhythm-and- Pittsburgh Speakers pittarts.pitt.edu. songwriter, noon, free, Nordy’s Place, Lower blues genres, 2:30 p.m., Manchester Series, 412-392-4900, Level William Pitt Union, Pitt ARTS’ Artful Craftsmen’s Guild Hall, 1815 www.Pittsburghspeak- Wednesdays, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt. Metropolitan St., Manchester, 412- ersseries.org. edu. 322-0800, www.mcgjazz.com, Pitt ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. 4 “The Visual Presenta- tion of Western Music in China During the Nineteenth Century,” Phantom of Hubert Laws, Liangyu Fu, doctoral Manchester candidate in Pitt’s the Opera, Department of Com- Craftsmen’s munication, noon, 4130 Byham Posvar Hall, Asia Over Theater, Guild Hall, Lunch Series, Pitt’s Oct. 31 Asian Studies Center, Oct. 21-24 412-648-7370 or asia@ pitt.edu. September 13, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 9

Violin Superstar Leila Josefowicz CALENDAR & Finlandia, Heinz Hall, Nov. 5-6 South Pacific, Benedum IonSound Project, Center, Bellefield Hall, Nov. 2-7 Nov. 14

“Gender and the Medieval/Renaissance 12 French Nation,” a discussion around French Town Hall Meeting With Bev Smith, primary texts led by Daisy Delogu and Kath- American Urban Radio Network and August erine Crawford, 2:30 p.m., Babcock Room, Wilson Center present “The Disappearing Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s Humanities Black Community and How We Get It Back” Center Colloquium Series, [email protected], during live radio broadcast town hall meet- www.humcenter.pitt.edu. ing, 7 p.m., August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Ave., Down- Harriet Tubman Loved Somebody, theatri- town, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. cal performance, through Nov. 20, performed at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, 542 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pitt’s Kuntu Reper- tory Theatre, 412-624-8498. 13 Pharoah Sanders, renowned tenor saxophon- Kimiko Hahn, author of several poetry collec- ist and quartet, 8 p.m., August Wilson Center tions, 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, Pitt Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Department of English, [email protected], www. 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. english.pitt.edu. Continental Connections: Musical Chan- nel Crossing, featuring Alaine and Easie, winners of the Early Music America Competi- 5 tion 2009, 8 p.m., Synod Hall, Fifth Avenue “The Animal in You(Tube): Posthuman and North Craig Street, Oakland, Renaissance Cinema From Buñuel to New Media,” & Baroque, 412-361-2048, www.rbsp.org. by Adam Lowenstein, Pitt Humanities Center Fellow, 526 Cathedral of Learning, Lucia Di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti, Pitt’s Humanities Center Colloquium Series, Wanda’s Visit by Christopher Durang; libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, also Nov. [email protected], www.humcenter.pitt.edu. Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, Pitt 16, 19, 21, Benedum Center, 803 Liberty Ave., Repertory Theatre’s student lab theatrical per- Downtown, Pittsburgh Opera, 412-456-6666, Violin Superstar Leila Josefowicz & formances, through Nov. 14, Studio Theatre, www.benedumcenter.org, Pitt ARTS Cheap Finlandia, with Finnish conductor Susanna Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Repertory Theatre, Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Mälkki and violinist Leila Josefowicz, 8 p.m.; Department of Theatre Arts, 412-624-0933, also Nov. 6; Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Down- www.play.pitt.edu. town, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, www. La Bella del Alhambra, directed by Enrique 14 pittsburghsymphony.org. Pineda Barnet (1989), 6:30 p.m., free, Frick IonSound Project: Music of Joan Tower, Fine Arts Auditorium, Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: musical performance by Pitt’s Ensemble in Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema Since the Cuban Residence, 7 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Revolution Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www. Talley’s Folly, 6 American Studies, Department of Hispanic music.pitt.edu. 40th Annual Pitt Jazz Concert, popular Languages and Literatures, www.amigo- O’Reilly Theater, musical performance with jazz greats, 8 p.m., [email protected]. Nov. 11-12 Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oak- land, Pitt Jazz Studies Program, 412-624-4187, 40th Annual Pitt 15 www.pitt.edu/~pittjazz/index.html. Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times col- 11 Jazz Concert, umnist and author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Manuel Barrueco, internationally renowned “Unpacking the Archive: Ichthyology, Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz guitarist, 8 p.m., PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne Photography, and the Archival Record in Carnegie Music Lectures, 412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlec- University, 600 Forbes Ave., Uptown, Guitar Colonial Korea,” lecture by Gyewon Kim, Hall, tures.org. Society of Fine Art, 412-396-5486, www. Pitt postdoctoral fellow, noon, 4130 Posvar gsfapittsburgh.org, Pitt ARTS Cheap Seats, Hall, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, Pitt’s Nov. 6 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Asian Studies Center, 412-648-7370 or asia@ pitt.edu. 17 The Morini Strad by Willy Holtzman, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, inspired by the true story that rocked the classi- Michael Thomas, 2010 Fred R. Brown Liter- scenes and vignettes from current season, cal music world, through Dec. 12, City Theater, ary Award winner, 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts noon, free, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, Wil- 1300 Bingham St., South Side, 412-431-2489, Auditorium, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers liam Pitt Union, Pitt ARTS’ Artful Wednes- www.citytheatrecompany.org. Series, Pitt’s Department of English, oaks@ days, 412-624-4498, www. pitt.edu or visit www.english.pitt.edu. pittarts.pitt.edu.

Rags to Ritzes: The Music of Irving 9 Berlin, with Jack Everly, conductor, Emmylou Harris, vocalist and songwriter, 8 through Nov. 14, Heinz Hall, 600 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth Ave., Down- Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh town, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, CDLive! Symphony Orchestra, PNC Pops! Presents, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsym- phony.org. Elpidio Valdés, directed by Juan Padrón (1979), 6:30 p.m., Talley’s Folly, Pulitzer Prize-winning Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 10 romantic comedy by Lanford Wilson, free, Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Brad Yoder and Heather Kropf Band, through Dec. 12, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Years of Cuban Cinema Since the Pittsburgh songwriters, noon, free, Nordy’s Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Cuban Revolution Film Series, Pitt’s Place, Lower Level William Pitt Union, Pitt Theater, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org, Pitt Center for Latin American Studies, ARTS’ Artful Wednesdays, 412-624-4498, ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. Department of Hispanic Languages and www.pittarts.pitt.edu. pittarts.pitt.edu. Literatures, www.amigocinelatinoamericano@ gmail.com. 10 • Pitt Chronicle • September 13, 2010

Highmark Presents Chris Botti, Heinz Hall, Nov. 30

2 Grisha Goryachev, Continued Nordy’s Place, NOVEMBER Dec. 1 23 Rock of Ages, five-time Tony Award-nom- inated musical, through Nov. 28, Benedum 1 3 1 Center, 803 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pitts- Grisha Goryachev, clas- Pitt Men’s Glee Club Holiday Concert, burgh Cultural Trust, PNC Broadway Across sical and Spanish guitarist, 8 p.m., First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh, America, 412-471-6070, www.pgharts.org. noon, free, Nordy’s Place, 159 N. Bellefield Ave., Oakland, free to Pitt Lower Level, William Pitt students with ID, tickets must be reserved Union, Pitt ARTS’ Artful in advance, Pitt Department of Music, 412- Wednesdays, 412-624-4498, 624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu. 26 www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Honeck & a Waltz Tradition, cellist Verdi Requiem, with conductor Manfred Johannes Moser makes his PSO debut, 8 The Last Days of Judas Honeck and The Mendelssohn Choir of Iscariot p.m.; also 2:30 p.m. Nov. 28, Heinz Hall, 600 EMBER by Stephen Adly Pittsburgh, through Dec. 5, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Guirgis, Pitt Repertory The- Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Sym- Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412- atre’s student lab theatrical phony Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Clas- 392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. performance, through Dec. sics, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsym- 5, Studio Theatre, Cathedral phony.org. of Learning, Pitt Repertory Ben Carson, celebrated pediatric neuro- Theatre, Department of surgeon who overcame poverty to become 30 Theatre Arts, 412-624-0933, director of pediatric neurosurgery for Johns Highmark Presents Chris Botti, www.play.pitt.edu. 4 Hopkins University Hospital at age 33, 8 p.m., Grammy-nominated trumpeter back by Festival of World Music, free, featuring Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Robert popular demand, 7:30 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Pitt’s University Gamelan Ensemble, Afri- Morris University’s Pittsburgh Speakers Penn Ave., Downtown, Heinz Hall Special can Music and Dance Ensemble, Carpathian Ensemble, and Indian classical music, 2-6 Series, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghspeak- Presentation, Pittsburgh Symphony Orches- 2 3 ersseries.org. tra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsym- “The Sino-American Dis- p.m., William Pitt Union Ballroom, Pitt phony.org. pute Over the Renminbi Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www. Exchange Rate,” Pei music.pitt.edu. Fresa y Chocolate, directed by Tomás Liu, visiting scholar in Pitt 18 Gutiérrez Alea (1994), 6:30 p.m., Frick Fine Department of Economics, Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concert, “U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan: Three Arts Auditorium, free, Cuban Eyes/Cuban- noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia musical performance, 8 p.m.; also Dec. 5, Myths vs. Three Realities,” A.S.M. Ali ize: Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema Since the DEC Over Lunch Lecture Series, 10, and 12, Heinz Chapel, tickets go on sale Ashraf, doctoral candidate, Pitt’s Graduate Cuban Revolution Film Series, Pitt’s Center Pitt’s Asian Studies Center, Oct. 18, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624- School of Public and International Affairs, for Latin American Studies, Department of 412-648-7370 or asia@pitt. 4125, www.music.pitt.edu. noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Hispanic Languages and Literatures, www. edu. Lecture Series, Pitt’s Asian Studies Center, [email protected]. 412-648-7370 or [email protected]. Roble de Olor, directed by Rigoberto López (2002), 6 6:30 p.m., free, Frick Fine Lee Child, mystery writer, 7:30 p.m., Slatkin Conducts Arts Auditorium, Cuban Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., 19 Copland’s Appalachian Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Years Oakland, Drue Heinz Lectures, 412-622- Titón, de la Habana a Guantanamera, of Cuban Cinema Since 8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org. directed by Mirtha Ibarra (2008), 6:30 p.m., Spring, the Cuban Revolution Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, free, Cuban Eyes/ Film Series, Pitt’s Center Cubanize: Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema Since Heinz Hall, for Latin American the Cuban Revolution Film Series, Pitt’s Center Nov. 19 Studies, Department 8 for Latin American Studies, Department of of Hispanic Languages University of Pittsburgh Symphony Hispanic Languages and Literatures, www. & 21 and Literatures, www. Orchestra, free, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall [email protected]. amigocinelatinoamericano@ Auditorium, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in gmail.com. G, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, Slatkin Conducts Copland’s Appalachian www.music.pitt.edu. Spring, also works by Bernstein and Tower, 8 p.m.; 2:30 p.m. Nov. 21, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412- 9 392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. A Musical Christmas Carol, Charles Dick- ens classic, through Dec. 23, Byham The- ater, 101 Sixth Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh CLO, 412-456-6666, www.pittsburghclo. 20 org. John Mellencamp’s No Better Than This Tour, Mellencamp and his band performing Los Dioses Rotos, directed by Ernesto in theater-sized venues, 6:45 p.m., Heinz Hall, Daranas (2008), free, 6:30 p.m., Frick Fine 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Heinz Hall Special Arts Auditorium, Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: Presentation, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema Since the 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Cuban Revolution Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, www. [email protected]. 22 University of Pittsburgh Buddy Valastro: Bakin’ With the Boss Tour, featuring baker and star of TLC’s “Cake Symphony Orchestra, Boss,” 7:30 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Bellefield Hall, Downtown, Heinz Hall Special Presentation, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392- Dec. 8 4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. September 13, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 11 CALENDAR Happenings

10 The Nutcracker, through Dec. Cirque Dreams: Holid- 26, Benedum Center, 803 Liberty aze, musical extravaganza Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Ballet with acrobats, aerialists, Theatre, 412-456-6666, www.ben- and dancers, through Dec. edumcenter.org, Pitt ARTS Cheap 26, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts. Ave., Downtown, 412-392- pitt.edu. 4900, www.pgharts.org. 11 28 Women’s Choral Ensemble Holi- Burn the Floor, Latin and day Concert, 8 p.m., Heinz Chapel, ballroom dance spectacu- “Maximizing Your Postdoctoral Success: free to Pitt students with ID, Pitt lar, through Jan. 2, Heinz An Orientation to a Full Academic and Social Life in Pittsburgh,” Department of Music, 412-624-4125, Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Starzl Biomedical Science Tower, September 16 www.music.pitt.edu Downtown, 412-392-4900, www.pgharts.org. Baltimore Consort: Wassail, Lectures/Seminars/ tion Project and Georgetown Center Wassail, tunes from France, the on National Security and the Law British Isles, and Appalachia, 8 p.m., Readings to commemorate the United States’ Synod Hall, Fifth Avenue and North 31 founding charter, live Web cast “How Integrative Medicine Can Craig Street, Oakland, Renaissance First Night Pittsburgh streamed at 9:30 a.m. to Pitt Law Help You Lead a Healthy and & Baroque, 412-361-2048, www. 2011, live music, dance, School, Room 109, Barco Law Build- Active Life,” rbsp.org. and entertainment through- Ronald Glick, medi- ing, 412-648-1490, www.law.pitt.edu. out the Cultural District, cal director, Center for Integrative Downtown, 6 p.m., Medicine at UPMC Shadyside, 6-7:30 “Writing the History of Cuba’s Highmark Blue Cross Blue p.m. Sept. 13, Carnegie Library of Future: Debates on Race and 14 Shield, Pittsburgh Cultural Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oak- History in Contemporary Cuba,” Straight No Chaser Holiday Trust, www.firstnightpgh. land, Pitt Clinical and Translational Alejandro de la Fuente, Pitt Univer- Science Institute, 412-622-3114, www. 4 Show, 10-member a cappella group, org. sity Center for International Studies “Is Plato’s Political Philosophy through Dec. 16, Benedum Center, carnegielibrary.org. research professor, noon Sept. 17, Totalitarian?” 803 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pitts- School of Social Work Conference Room 244A, "The Union for the Mediterra- Cathedral of Learning, burgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, Center, 20th floor, Cathedral of nean: Continuity and Change in September 17 wwwpgharts.org. Learning, Pitt Center on Race and European-Mediterranean Coop- Social Problems’ Buchanan Ingersoll Yoko Tanaka, Graduate eration," Elyes Ghamni, doctoral & Rooney PC Fall 2010 Speaker School of Public Health’s candidate at the Université Libre de Series, free, www.crsp.pitt.edu. Department of Biostatistics, 16 Bruxelles, noon Sept. 14, 4130 Posvar “An Adaptive Two-Stage Dose- The Second City’s Fair & Hall, Pitt European Studies Center “Is Plato’s Political Philosophy Response Design Method for Unbalanced, Chicago-based and European Union Center of Excel- Totalitarian?” Wolfgang Bernard, Establishing Proof of Concept improvisational troupe, lence, 412-648-8517, [email protected]. professor in the University of Ros- in Drug Development,” 9:30 through Dec. 18, O’Reilly tock’s Heinrich Schliemann-Institut, a.m. Sept. 17, 109 Parran Hall. “Careers Over Lunch,” Theater, 621 Penn Ave., brown-bag 4 p.m. Sept. 17, Room 244A, Cathe- Michael V. Yudelson, Downtown, Pittsburgh lunch program, noon to 1:30 p.m. dral of Learning, Pitt Department School Public Theater, 412-316- Sept. 16, Room S100, Biomedical of Classics, 412-624-4493, www. of Information Sciences’ 1600, www.ppt.org, Pitt Science Tower 2, Pitt’s Survival Skills classics.pitt.edu. Graduate Program in Informa- ARTS Cheap Seats, 412- and Ethics Program, 412-578-3716, tion and Technology, “Provid- 624-4498, www.pittarts. www.survival.pitt.edu. ing Service-Based Personaliza- pitt.edu. Pitt PhD Dissertation tion in an Adaptive Hypermedia “Maximizing Your Postdoctoral Defenses System,” noon Sept. 17, 522 A Lyrical Christmas Success: An Orientation to a Full Information Sciences Building. Academic and Social Life in Pitts- Carol, adaptation of classic Laura Zajac, School of Arts and burgh,” Alexandra B. Gil, Dickens’ tale, through Dec. Arthur S. Levine, senior Sciences’ Department of Psychology, School of 19, New Hazlett Theater, vice chancellor for the health sciences “Making Difficult Health Decisions: Health and Rehabilitation Sci- Allegheny Square East, and dean of Pitt’s School of Medicine, A Motivated Decision-Processing ence’s Rehabilitation Science North Side, Pittsburgh 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 16, S100 Thomas E. Model,” 3 p.m. Sept. 13, 4127 Sen- Program, “The Association Musical Theater Conserva- Starzl Biomedical Science Tower, Pitt nott Square. Between Lower Extremity tory Series, 412-456-6666, Office of Academic Career Develop- Movement Patterns and Physi- www.pittsburghmusicals. ment’s Postdoctoral Professionalism Xinhua Zhao, Graduate School cal Function in People With com. Series 2010-2011, of Public Health’s Department of Knee Osteoarthritis,” 1:30 p.m. register at www.oacd.health.pitt.edu. Biostatistics, “Bayesian Analysis of Sept. 17, Room 4060, Forbes Highmark Holiday Pops, Daniel Latent Trait Hierarchical Models for Tower. Violent Armed Groups: A Global Meyer, conductor; The Mendels- Multiple Binary Outcomes in Cluster Challenge, sohn Choir of Pittsburgh, through Sept. 16-17 conference, Randomized Clinical Trials,” noon Dec. 19, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., University Club, Ballroom B, Pitt’s Sept. 15, Conference Room, 308 Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Matthew B. Ridgway Center for Inter- Parran Hall. Note: This week’s national Security Studies, U.S. Army Orchestra, PNC POPS! 412-392- cultural events are 4900, www.pittsburghsymphony. War College, 412-624-7884, www. Cary Campbell, School of Arts and org. ridgway.pitt.edu. Sciences’ Department of French and listed on page 5 of this Italian Languages and Literatures, issue’s Arts & Culture The Right to a Fair Trial: Should “The Discursive Construction of The Nutcracker, the Rules in Terrorism Cases Be the Ivorian Nation in the Period of calendar. Benedum Different From Those in Other Ivoirité,” 2 p.m. Sept. 17, Room 1218 Criminal Prosecutions? panel dis- Cathedral of Learning. Center, cussion sponsored by The Constitu- Dec. 10-26

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The Cultural Scene at Your Fingertips Pitt ARTS Holds Annual Art Fair on Sept. 15

The Cheap Seats Program is available to Pitt students, faculty, and staff with a valid University identification card. Some Cheap Seats partners allow the discounted tickets to be purchased online via the Pitt ARTS site, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Cultural District, Downtown. Details about Cheap Seats and other Pitt ARTS programs are available on the Web site or by calling 412-624-4498. The University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt Pitt ARTS has been connecting students prior to the performance at the appropriate Each year, Pitt ARTS’s various programs ARTS program will hold its 12th Annual on the University’s Pittsburgh campus to the venue. A valid Pitt ID must be shown to pick attract 45,000 Pitt students, including Art Fair in the William Pitt Union Ballroom cultural life of the city since the organization up the tickets. repeat users. from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, was founded in 1997. Funded by the Office Each Pitt person can buy as many as Sept. 15. A free lunch will be served at noon. of the Provost, the program sponsors more four tickets per show (with a few excep- Attendees will have the opportunity than 110 free student outings for Pitt under- tions), and participants are welcome to bring to browse information and talk with staff graduates each year. Pitt ARTS also provides non-Pitt people as guests. Each Cheap Seats PUBLICATION NOTICE The next edition of from about 30 Pittsburgh arts organization, on-campus art experiences, free museum partner organization has a different deadline Pitt Chronicle will be published Sept. 20. Items for publication in the newspaper’s including the Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh visits for Pitt students, as well as discounted for purchasing tickets. Happenings calendar (see page 11) should Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Symphony cultural opportunities for staff, faculty, and Among the many Pitt ARTS Cheap be received six working days prior to the Orchestra, Andy Warhol Museum, Mattress undergraduate and graduate students. Seats offerings this fall are tickets to desired publication date. Happenings items Factory Art Museum, Carnegie Museums, The Cheap Seats Program is available to “Honeck & Beethoven’s Fifth” with the should include the following informa- Pittsburgh Public Theater, Manchester’s Pitt students, faculty, and staff with a valid Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on Sept. tion: title of the event, name and title of Craftsmen’s Guild, Guitar Society of Fine University identification card. Some Cheap 24-26. The evening show on Sept. 24 is a speaker(s), date, time, location, sponsor(s), Art, Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret, and many Seats partners allow the discounted tickets designated PITT NIGHT—a Pitt ARTS and a phone number and Web site for addi- others. to be purchased online via the Pitt ARTS special evening that includes discounted tional information. Items may be e-mailed Pitt faculty, staff, and students can site, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Other tickets seat prices, optional free transportation from to [email protected], faxed to 412-624-4895, or sent by campus mail to 422 Craig Hall. learn details about the cultural organiza- can be reserved outside of the Pitt ARTS’ Oakland, and a post-show dessert reception For more information, call 412-624-1033 tions’ 2010-11 seasons, sign up to win prizes temporary office location at 316 William Pitt with artists from the show. Four other PITT or e-mail [email protected]. and ticket-giveaways, and try their hand at Union—purchasers must have a valid Pitt NIGHTs are scheduled through January making arts-related objects. ID. Those tickets will be available one hour with different partner organizations in the