Happenings

CONCERTS

Musique du Monde: A World of Music With Anne-Sophie Mutter, Grammy Award-winning violinist, who opens PSO season with Music Director Manfred Honeck in a program featuring works by Mendelssohn, Ravel, and Sarasate, 7 p.m. Sept. 17, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, www.pgharts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Adam and Anthony Live, original RENT stars Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp join forces on concert stage in a pock/rock evening, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, www.pgharts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Vance Gilbert, American folk singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside, Calliope Center Stage Series, www.calliopehouse.org, 412-361-1915, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Honeck & Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, with pianist Rudolf Buchbinder in Gershwin’s Concerto in F, Sept. 23-25, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Classic, www.pgharts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

EXHIBITIONS

University Art Gallery, On a Lucky Day a Surprising Balance of Forms and Spaces Will Appear, through Oct. 21, exhibition comprising work of 14 faculty members in Pitt’s Department of Studio Arts, Frick Fine Arts Building, 412-648-2430.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Ragnar Kjartansson: Song, through Sept. 24; Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood, ongoing; Past Meets Present: Decorative Arts and Design at Carnegie Museum of Art, ongoing, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

The Warhol, I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, Video, and Television, ongoing, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Heinz History Center, America’s Best Weekly: A Century of The Pittsburgh Courier, through Oct. 2; 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Botany and History Entwined: Rachel Hunt’s Legacy, rare gems from the original collection of founder Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963), Sept. 16 through Dec. 15, 5th Floor of Hunt Library, 4909 Frew St., Carnegie Mellon University, 412-268-2434, http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/.

Wood Street Galleries, Cell Phone Disco, ongoing, Tito Way, Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

LECTURES/SEMINARS/READINGS

“Common Causal Explanations and the Bell Inequalities,” Gabor Hofer-Szabo, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science Visiting Fellow, 12:05 p.m. Sept. 13, 817R Cathedral of Learning, 412-624-1052, www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr.

Rob Ruck’s Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game (Beacon Press, 2011), symposium on Pitt history professor’s book, 4-6 p.m. Sept. 15, William Pitt Union Lower Lounge, Pitt History Department Book Symposium Series, www.history.pitt.edu.

“Deciphering the Recombination Landscape,” Judith Yanowitz, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, Pitt School of Medicine, noon Sept. 16, Scaife Hall Auditorium 6, Senior Vice Chancellor’s Research Seminar series, 412-648-9676, Smd22@pitt.edu.

“Authentic Diversity and Multiculturalism to Spark Creativity for High Performance,” Thomas Brooks (ENG ’88), founder and managing director, Alpha Multimedia, noon to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 16, 102 Benedum Hall, lunch served with RSVP, School of Engineering’s Office of Diversity, 412 624-9842, eodadmin@pitt.edu.

MISCELLANEOUS

European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center welcome-back reception for faculty, students, and friends, 4 p.m. Sept. 14, 4130 Posvar Hall, www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce.

PITT ARTS’ 13th Annual Art Fair, opportunity to meet program’s partner arts organizations, buy discounted tickets, and enjoy a free lunch, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sept. 15, William Pitt Union Ballroom, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

OPERA/THEATER/DANCE

Attack Theater, collaborative dance-based performances, noon Sept. 21, Nordy’s Place, William Pitt Union Lower Level, free lunch, PITT ARTS 9th Annual Artful Wednesdays Series, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Race by David Mamet, described as an incendiary story about perceptions and realities and the subtle shades between being a victim and being victimized, Sept. 13 through Oct. 1, Henry Heymann Theatre in Stephen Foster Memorial, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, 412-394-3353, www.picttheatre.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats Program, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Momix’s Botanica, nature’s changing imagery set to music from birdsong to Vivaldi and created by Moses Pendleton for Momix dance troupe, Sept. 16-17, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, www.pgharts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats Program, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Our Father, Who Art Blakey, Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra honors life and legacy of Pittsburgh native who blazed a trail for jazz hopefuls, 8 p.m. Sept. 17, August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, www.pgharts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats Program, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

The Marvelous Wonderettes by Roger Bean, a return to the 1950s and ’60s, through Oct. 2, Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-281-3973, www.pittsburghclo.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Wicked, story of the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good before they came to Oz, Sept. 7-Oct. 2, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America-Pittsburgh, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

PITT PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE

Siddharth Jhunjhunwala, Swanson School of Engineering, 2 p.m. Sept. 16, “Controlled Release Microparticulates for Immunoregulaton: Toward a Synthetic Tolerogenic Dendritic Cell,” 102 Benedum Hall.