Voice of the Arts
Insights and anecdotes from musicians, dancers, artists, actors and directors, as well as audience response.
Episodes
June 7, 2024 • 28 mins
Co-Artistic Directors of Chatham Baroque, violinist Andrew Fouts, and theorbo and baroque guitar player Scott Pauley, spoke with Anna Singer about Chatham Baroque's newly released 2024-2025 season. The season includes Handel's Apollo e Dafne with Twelfth Night, Roderick Williams, and Nola Richardson, French vocal and dance music from the time of Louis XII and XIV, and a world premiere of newly released version of Markus Passion to ...
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June 7, 2024 • 18 mins
Opera singer Marianne Cornetti and Broadway star Jay Armstrong Johnson, spoke about their upcoming performance this Sunday, June 9th at 3 pm at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. This performance is for the 3rd annual Marianne Cornetti and Friends Benefit Concert and Art Auction that benefits the UPMC Western Behavioral Health Foundation. This concert will feature an unforgettable afternoon of Broadway selections with Jay, Mariann...
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June 3, 2024 • 16 mins
Attend the tale of PMT! Pittsburgh Musical Theater's Conservatory Director, Quinn Patrick Shannon, and PMT students, Ilyssa Bails and Eli Fisher, spoke with WQED-FM about their upcoming summer camps this year in the West End. Ilyssa and Eli discuss the Teen camps end of semester performance of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Quinn discusses the different tracks and camps offered from June 24th to July 21st, and the ...
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May 31, 2024 • 13 mins
Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh presents "As Spring Turns to Summer" - a program that includes Strauss, Honegger, and Copland, with performances on June 1, 2024, 7:30pm, at Levy Hall in Rodef Shalom and June 2, 2024, 3:00pm at Bower Hill Community Church. Soprano Zuly Inirio joins the orchestra for a performance of Richard Strauss’s cycle Four Last Songs. The program rounds out with Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland and Arthur Ho...
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May 30, 2024 • 16 mins
Interim Vice President of Programming, Manager of DEAI Initiatives, and Festival Director with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Sarah Aziz, spoke about the Three Rivers Arts Festival that begins this Friday, May 31st. Sarah discusses the artists market with over 326 artists, as well as the musical acts at three different stages downtown. Check out the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on Monday, June 3rd, or the Thomas Wendt Quartet on J...
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May 30, 2024 • 11 mins
Executive Director of Contemporary Craft, Rachel Rearick, spoke about their upcoming exhibition, Hereafter, opening on Friday, May 31st. This exhibit features craft work by 13 regional artists mostly in the Pittsburgh area that delves into the feeling of grief. There will be a free opening reception on May 31st, and an Artists Talk on June 1st. Rachel highlights the work done by all the artists, and what Contemporary Craft has to o...
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May 29, 2024 • 26 mins
This Friday, May 31st, 7pm at the James Laughlin Music Hall, Kamratōn's Anna Elder performs Schoenberg's PIERROT LUNAIRE with guest artists Futaba Niekawa, piano and Jeffrey Turner, conductor. Other works on the program include OI KUU by Kaija Saariaho and the premiere of NOCTURNES by Emily Cook. Jim Cunningham spoke with Jeffrey Turner and Emily Cook about the concert, which they'll perform in New York City on Sunday.
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May 29, 2024 • 7 mins
Music Director of the Mendelssohn Choir, Daniel Dinger, and violinist, Andrew Sords, discuss their upcoming concert at the Third Presbyterian Church on Saturday, June 1st at 7 pm. This free concert includes Cleveland-based pianist Elizabeth DeMio, and Pittsburgh Symphony cellist, Mike DeBruyn. Andrew and Daniel talk about the concerts program, how all the performers met at college, and what is next for the duo. Visit https://www.th...
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May 28, 2024 • 21 mins
Artistic Director of Renaissance City Choir, Kym Scott, discusses the choirs upcoming concerts for Pride Month, starting with a performance at Pittsburgh Pride this Friday, May 31st at 2 pm at the Allegheny Commons Park West. They will be tabling all of the pride events in the Pittsburgh area during the month of June, and will celebrate the month with their own Pride concert on June 29th and 30th at the East Liberty Presbyterian Ch...
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May 24, 2024 • 23 mins
Jim Cunningham spoke with Ben Bugaile about their new Summer Concert Recital Series beginning in July.
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May 23, 2024 • 26 mins
President and CEO of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, John McCabe, recently spoke with Jim Cunningham about the Hall's upcoming Memorial Day celebration on May 27th from 11 am to 4 pm. John highlights all the fun things to do during this celebration, including a free tour of the Museum, family-friendly activities, and a concert by the Camp Chase Fifes and Drums. Parking is free and there will be an observance at 3...
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May 23, 2024 • 12 mins
Ukrainian pianist and scholar Dr. Taras Filenko and Pittsburgh dancer Elsa Limbach spoke with WQED-FM about their upcoming Ukrainian benefit concert, Standing Against the Suppression of Expression, at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild on Sunday, June 2nd at 7 pm. All proceeds will go towards the Brother's Brother Foundation, and the concert will feature Ukrainian artist Ostap Stakhiw (Bandurist), as well as Pittsburgh Symphony Orche...
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May 22, 2024 • 14 mins
Organist Dr. Edward Alan Moore, composer Nancy Galbraith, and percussionist Abby Langhorst, spoke about the East Liberty Presbyterian Church's upcoming final concert of their 12th season of Cathedral Concerts with the Brass Roots. This event will be this Friday, May 24th at 7:30 pm and will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Brass Roots in residence at ELPC with a newly composed piece by Pittsburgh native, Nancy Galbraith. Nancy...
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May 17, 2024 • 10 mins
Actors Randy Kovitz and Connor McCanlus spoke with WQED-FM about their upcoming roles as the bounty hunter and the photographer in the Pittsburgh Public Theater's world premiere, The Coffin Maker. This world premiere featuring a Pittsburgh playwright, Mark Clayton Southers, runs from May 29th to June 16th at the O'Reilly Theater. Connor talks about his field trip to the Photo Antiquities Museum of Photographic History in downtown P...
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May 17, 2024 • 11 mins
Playwright and Founder of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, Mark Clayton Southers, spoke with WQED-FM about his upcoming world premiere play of The Coffin Maker, running at the Pittsburgh Public Theater from May 29th to June 16th. Mark describes the story of an enslaved wife and freed husband working for an undertaker in Oklahoma, when a bounty hunter comes in and changes everything. He also describes why he wrote this pl...
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May 17, 2024 • 16 mins
Director, playwright and Co-Artistic Director of City Theatre, Monteze Freeland, spoke with WQED-FM at the Pittsburgh Public Theater about the upcoming play, The Coffin Maker. This world premiere featuring a Pittsburgh playwright, Mark Clayton Southers, runs from May 29th to June 16th at the O'Reilly Theater. Monteze talks about his first introduction to the play almost 2 1/2 years ago, the challenges of researching slavery, the t...
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May 16, 2024 • 31 mins
Former Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony, and former director of the Carnegie Mellon University Philharmonic, Andres Cardenes, spoke with Jim Cunningham about his past 36 years in the city of Pittsburgh, and why he is moving to Florida to continue his work. Both reminisce about Andres' start with the PSO in the 1980s, and talk about the future of classical music for young musicians in conservatories around the United States....
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May 15, 2024 • 13 mins
Pittsburgh house painters and musicians, Ricky Granati and his son Jules Granati, spoke about The Merrick Art Gallery's upcoming event, Toast, on May 25th at 5 pm which features WQED-FM's own Anna Singer performing with a Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra String Quartet. It will be a fun affair with food, wine, and great music! Ricky discusses how he first discovered the Art Gallery, and Jules highlights how big an effect classical mus...
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May 15, 2024 • 31 mins
Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, Sony Ton-Aime, dives deep the Ten Evenings 2024-2025 season. Starting with Colm Toibin on September 16th with his newest book, Long Island, this years authors are exciting as ever! Sony highlights the diverse group that includes History professor and author of Democracy Awakening, Heather Cox Richardson, as well as newer names such as Pico Iyer and Leif Enger. The last lecture is ...
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May 14, 2024 • 21 mins
Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Nicholas Dragga, spoke about the last performance of the season, Cinderella, premiering May 17th to the 19th at the Benedum Center. This U.S premiere of this production with music by Prokofiev and choreography by Jaune Smeulders features the PBT Orchestra in the finale of the season. Nick also highlights next years 55th Emerald season with high quality productions all year long a...
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