CFA Announcements

Free Bus Ride To Philharmonic Concert ______________________________________

Anyone with a Carnegie Mellon i.d. can take a free bus ride to the Carnegie Mellon University Philharmonic performance at 8 p.m., April 29 at the famed John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This offer includes a free ticket to the concert!

Hurry and reserve your place today, e-mail music-office@andrew.cmu.edu for your spot.

The bus departs at the University Center turnaround at 12:30 p.m.

They will play works by Edgard Varse (Arcana) and Giacinto Scelsi (Quattro Pezzi), as well as the Stravinsky favorite, "The Rite of Spring."

Events ____________________________________________________________________

The School of Drama continues Commedia Dell Arte. This is a must see! Try to catch them at the remaining locations.

Servant of Two Masters

Tonight! 5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17 in the Morewood Gardens Parking lot off Forbes Avenue

5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 24 on Carnegie Mellons Cut, near the tennis courts

Performances at the SouthSide Works: Scapino

5:30 p.m., Friday, April 25, and Saturday April 26

Servant of Two Masters

1 p.m., Saturday, April 26

Performances at Hartwood Acres Park:

Servant of Two Masters

1 p.m., Saturday, April 19

Scapino

4 p.m., Saturday, April 19 ______________________

Cuarteto Latinoamericano and the Renaissance City Winds will perform a collaborative concert as the finale to their 2007-2008 Pittsburgh concert seasons. The program will take place in Carnegie Mellon Universitys Kresge Recital Hall, in the College of Fine Arts, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 24. Tickets are available through ProArts Ticket Service at (412) 394-3353 or online at www.proartstickets.org. This concert is free with a Carnegie Mellon i.d.

Together, the ensembles will give a rare performance of Bohuslav Martinus Nonet . One of the composers last creations, this ebullient work was written for the renowned Czech Nonet in 1959. Each ensemble will also play two works alone. The Renaissance City Winds will celebrate Elliott Carters 100th birthday with a performance of his wind quintet, and will open the concert with the cheerful Quartet in C Major by Arthur Berger. The Cuarteto will premiere two works by Pittsburgh composers. Chao-Jung Wu, a graduate student in Carnegie Mellons School of Music, won the 2007 Carnegie Mellon quartet composition competition with her String Quartet No. 2. David Stock is Professor of Music at Duquesne University and Conductor Laureate of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. His seventh quartet is dedicated to the Cuarteto. _____________________

Big Band Jazz @ Carnegie A Tribute to Maxine Sullivan

Big Band Jazz with Etta Cox and the Al Dowe Sextet, Carnegie Mellon 6:30 Ensemble & Kiski High School Jazz Band

Saturday, April 26 Doors at 6 p.m. Show starts at 7 p.m.

All tickets are $10 Tickets go on sale 3/8/08 and will be available through Ticketmaster or at the Library circulation desk. _______________________

MAY 2 - MAY 18, 2008 MAYDAY! BFA SENIOR EXHIBITION 2008

Opening reception: MAY 2, 6-8PM

See link for more information: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~miller/exhibitions/index_BFA08.html

PGH Events _________________________________________________________________

Art, Activism & Equity Symposium Part of the Women in the Arts Festival

April 18, 2008April 19, 2008

Co-Presented by the New Hazlett Theater, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council & Women and Girls Foundation

The New Hazlett Theater, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and the Women and Girls Foundation present a dynamic symposium, Art, Activism & Equity, as part of the Women in the Arts Festival on April 18 and 19, 2008. The festival, which features the Guerrilla Girls (art activists who have come to be known as "the Conscience of the Art World.") and Faythe Levine (Director and Author of "Handmade Nation: Documenting the rise of DIY Art, Craft & Design"), celebrates the accomplishments of women in the arts in Pittsburgh and connects the local arts community with national resources, trends, and philosophies.

The symposium will explore solutions regarding Southwest Pennsylvanias embarrassing record of womens compensation rates, build networks among Pittsburghs emerging and established arts leaders while celebrating our regions unique strengths as a center for individual accomplishment. The program will also explore politics and feminism and will encourage local action, connection to resources and coalition building.

For a full schedule of events, program fees and a list of performances and presenters please go to www.newhazletttheater.org