Voice of the Arts
Insights and anecdotes from musicians, dancers, artists, actors and directors, as well as audience response.
Episodes
July 18, 2025 • 16 mins
The new Pittsburgh Opera company, SERIO, is presenting "The Tales of Hoffmann" in August!
Anna Singer talks with founder Louisa Jonason, director Rebecka Kerr, and soprano Jennifer Coffman, about their upcoming production. The "Tales of Hoffmann" follows a young poet, Hoffmann, and his three disastrous love affairs. Jennifer plays the dual role of the Muse and Nicklausse, who try to guide Hoffmann towards his true love, art. Rebec...
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July 18, 2025 • 18 mins
CitiPark's last Bach, Beethoven, and Brunch concert is on July 27th!
The summer concert series comes to a close with a relatively new group, the North Pittsburgh Flute Society. Nicholle Bernardo-Pankuch and Jillian Edmondson founded the group in January of 2025, and talk with Melissa Black about the concert. The community flute choir is based in the North Hills and has about 20 members practicing at the Ingomar Community Church. T...
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July 17, 2025 • 19 mins
CitiPark's Bach, Beethoven, and Brunch's fourth concert is this weekend!
The summer concert series is hosting Chamber Music Pittsburgh this weekend, with an 8 person wind-ensemble. Associate Principal Oboe with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Max Blair, Paul J. Ross Fellow and bassoonist Carlos Clark, and Artistic and Executive Director of Chamber Music Pittsburgh Martha Bonta, talk about the upcoming concert "A Summer Serenade"...
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July 16, 2025 • 15 mins
Quantum Theatre's new season is starting off with a spin on a classic!
Artistic Director of Quantum, Karla Boos, and Director, Joanie Schultz, talk about the upcoming production of Anton Chekhov's "Seagull". Joanie created a new version, by making the character Constantine female. She highlights the love 'quadrangles' and the exploration of mother-daughter dynamics and queer identity in a different time. Joanie remarks on why she ...
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July 16, 2025 • 11 mins
It's the summertime, and that means its Fridays at the Frick!
Interim Director of Learning and Visitor Experience at the Frick Pittsburgh, Kelsie Paul, talks about their summer concert series and much more! Starting on July 25th, the upcoming bands include The Stemtecs Band, the Klezmerati, and the Adorabulls. All three are free outdoor concerts, with food trucks and art making available as well!
Kelsie also talks about a new ab...
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July 15, 2025 • 19 mins
Filmmaker and Point Park University alumni, Max Cianci, talks in this episode about his upcoming filmmaker showcase at the Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center.
Max's journey into film started when he was young and made home YouTube videos with LEGOs. This passion for storytelling took him to Point Park University, where he refined his art. He has since created many films, including commercials, documentaries, and short narrative s...
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July 14, 2025 • 23 mins
The Johnstown Flood City Music Festival returns to People's Natural Gas Park on Friday July 25th and Saturday July 26th with their most impressive line up to date! WQED-FM's Bryan Sejvar spoke with Festival Co-Chair Ron Carnevali about this years Festival which features Pigeons Playing Ping Pong headlining Friday night and Gov't Mule on Saturday night.
Ron talks about the process to get a band as big as Gov't Mule on the bill...
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July 14, 2025 • 17 mins
Cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Charlie Powers, talks live with Jim Cunningham about the Pittsburgh Cello Quartet's upcoming concert, and what the PSO is doing this summer.
Charlie founded the Pittsburgh Cello Quartet in 2015, and it has since become a staple of high quality quartets in the region. Charlie talks about forming the group, and their upcoming concert on July 27th at Ingomar Church. There program will f...
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July 11, 2025 • 28 mins
Have you've heard of the New York and LA Review of Books? Now Pittsburgh joins in with a literary magazine dedicated to covering local cultures, politics, art, and literary reviews!
Founder and author Ed Simon talks with Jim Cunningham to give a sneak peak into the magazine’s first publication and the goals he has set for the project. The Pittsburgh Review of Books will be free to the public and is set to release next month. Ed a...
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July 11, 2025 • 18 mins
Chatham Baroque has just released their 2025-2026 season!
Co-Artistic Director, Scott Pauley, discusses the upcoming season with Anna Singer. The season kicks off in October with a performance of Beethoven's Opus One. In November, Chatham Baroque's core trio performs some German and Austrian Baroque music at the Teutonia Mannerchor, a perfect venue to enjoy music with a drink! They cap off the year of 2025 with a holiday concert, ...
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July 10, 2025 • 28 mins
The first guitarist to study the instrument at the conservatory in China, Xuefei Yang, has a new recording out to mark the 100th birthday of Erik Satie, 'Chapeau Satie". She tips her hat to the composer with her own arrangements and plays his famous music the Gymnopedie and Gnossienne. Xuefei is living near London but travels to the US for an August through September tour visiting Boston, Baltimore, Bethesda, Philadelphia and many ...
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July 9, 2025 • 20 mins
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July 8, 2025 • 18 mins
Visit https://www.pittsburghpa.gov/Recreation-Events/Events/Concerts/Bach-Beethoven-and-Brunch for the full schedule.
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July 3, 2025 • 19 mins
Organist and Director of Music and Arts at East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Dr. Edward Alan Moore, discusses his upcoming concerts!
Dr. Moore talks about the atmosphere for the Westminster Organ Summer Concert series, which includes a farmers market in the parking lot before the recital. His program includes Florence Price, Nicholas Bruhns, and Fanny Mendelssohn. Dr. Moore highlights the background of Bruhns, a 19th century organ...
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July 3, 2025 • 27 mins
The Band of Brothers Shakespeare Company is presenting "The Merry Wives of Windsor" this July!
Actors Paul Mastovich, Christina Hostetler, and Doug Meagher, discuss the famous play and the characters they play in it. Paul plays Dr. Caius, a comically exaggerated French suitor. Christina plays Mistress Alice Ford, who Sir John Falstaff attempts to woo in order to gain her wealth. Doug plays Master Ford, Alice Ford's jealous husband...
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July 2, 2025 • 15 mins
Carnegie Museum of Art Assistant Curator Alyssa Velazquez discusses the exhibit, "Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden". This exhibit is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in nearly three decades. Velazquez reflects on Saunders’ unique ability to fuse abstraction, figuration, found objects, and text into compositions that confront American history. She speaks about Saunders’ return to his hometown of Pittsburg, and ...
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June 30, 2025 • 17 mins
Chamber Music Pittsburgh's program, Pittsburgh Performs, has another concert coming up!
Director of Resonance Works, Maria Sensi Sellner, talks about the partnership with Chamber Music Pittsburgh to present "Singing Out Loud", a vocal concert celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. The vocal group, Reson8, features 8 Pittsburgh vocalists; sopranos Charlene Canty and Amelia D’Arcy; mezzo-sopranos Timothi Williams and Zanna Fredland; teno...
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June 27, 2025 • 13 mins
Have you ever been to a Pittsburgh basement? Have you ever seen a band perform in one?
In this continuing series of finding venues outside the traditional box office, our intern Oliver Arner found a spot in the basement of a mansion on Chatham University's campus. The Rea Coffeehouse has been a student-run music venue since the school acquired the building in 1967. Oliver talks with Rea Coffeehouse co-president, Olivia Martin.
O...
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June 26, 2025 • 13 mins
The Pittsburgh Symphony Association will be hosting a Garden Tour in Fox Chapel this weekend!
Marketing member of the Association, Jean Horne, and one of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's first violinists, Irene Cheng, talk about the Garden Tour with Anna Singer. Jean highlights the 8 private gardens featured in the tour, with some as large as 15 acres. One garden is Smithsonian-certified as a museum without walls. Others have featu...
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