Happenings

Concerts

Mike Gordon, bassist/vocalist for the band Phish, 8 p.m. Sept. 30, Mr. Smalls Fun House & Theater, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale, 412-821-4447, www.mrsmalls.com.

Taylor Swift, country music, 7 p.m. Oct. 1, Mellon Arena, 66 Mario Lemieux Place, Downtown, 412-642-2062, www.mellonarena.com.

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Andrés Cárdenes, conductor and violin; Anne Martindale Williams, cello; Oct. 1-4, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Gary Burton—Next Generation Band, Oct. 2-4, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, 1815 Metropolitan St., Manchester, MCG Jazz 2009-10 Season, 412-322-0800, www.manchesterguild.org.

Larry the Cable Guy, comedic performance, 8 p.m. Oct. 3, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Thoth Trio, jazz, 5 p.m. Oct. 6, Backstage Bar at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Jazz Live Series, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Tony DePaolis, jazz, 8 p.m. Oct. 6, Backstage Bar at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Jazz Live Series, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Cowboy Junkies, Canadian country music, alternative rock, 8 p.m. Oct. 6, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, CD Live! Series, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Diamond Gallas, blues and jazz, 8 p.m. Oct. 6, New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, North Side, Andy Warhol Museum’s Off the Wall Series, 412-320-4612, www.warhol.org.

Pittsburgh Opera Singers, noon Oct. 7, Nordy’s Place, William Pitt Union, PITT ARTS’ Artful Wednesdays, 412-624-4462, www.pitt.edu/~pittarts.

Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra with trumpeter Sean Jones, 8 p.m. Oct. 8, August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, 412-258-2700, www.augustwilsoncenter.org.

Shirley Jones, Marvin & The Music Man, Marvin Hamlisch, conductor,
Oct. 8-11, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Charles Wallace, jazz, 5 p.m. Oct. 10, Backstage Bar at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Jazz Live Series, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Fresh Ayre with violinist Stanley Richie, 8 p.m. Oct. 10-11, Synod Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland, Chatham Baroque 2009-10 Concert Season, 412-687-1788, www.chathambaroque.org.

Ray Ryan Trio, 12:30 p.m. Oct. 11, Schenley Park Café and Visitor Center, 101 Panther Hollow Rd., Oakland, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Sundays in the Park, 412-255-2539, www.pittsburghparks.org.

John Tesh: Live in Concert, 7 p.m. Oct. 11, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Cohen and Grigsby Trust Presents Series, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Exhibitions

Hillman Library, Audubon print, Rusty Grakle,” through Oct. 6, 412-648-7715.

707 Galleries, The Secret Lives of Stories, through Oct. 17, 707 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-471-6078, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, www.pgharts.org.

Andy Warhol Museum, Drawn to the Summit: A G-20 Exhibition of International Political Cartoons, through Oct. 18, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project, Part Three, through Nov. 1; Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual Member Exhibit, through Nov. 8; Digital to Daguerreotype: Photographs of People, through Jan. 31, 2010, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3309, www.cmoa.org.

Senator John Heinz History Center, Forbes Field: Celebrating 100 Years, through Nov. 8; and Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, through Jan. 15, 2010, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

Mattress Factory Museum, Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-specific Works, through Jan. 10, 2010, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side, 412-231-3169, www.mattress.org.

Wood Street Galleries, Matter and Memory, Oct. 2-Dec. 31, 601 Wood St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-471-5605, www.pgharts.org.

Pittsburgh Glass Center, Sheila Klein’s The Return, Oct. 2-Jan. 20, 2010, 5472 Penn Ave., Garfield, 412-365-2145, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org.

Lectures/Seminars/Readings

“Examining Five Prominent Explanations for the Black/White School Achievement Gap,” Gary L. St. C. Oates, Bowling Green State University sociology professor, noon Sept. 30, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s School of Social Work, Center on Race and Social Problems, Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney Fall 2009 Speaker Series, www.crsp.pitt.edu.

“The New Rules of Investing: Six Principles for Planning a Safe and Secure Retirement,” Brett Hammond, TIAA-CREF managing director and chief investment strategist, 1 p.m. Sept. 30, Connolly Ballroom, Alumni Hall, open to Pitt faculty and staff, Pitt Office of Benefits, registration requested at www.signup4.net/public/ap.aspx?EID=TIAA97E&OID=130.

Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistani president, 8 p.m. Sept. 30, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Robert Morris University’s 2009-10 Pittsburgh Speakers Series, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghspeakersseries.org.

“Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions in Taking Military Action,” Hans-Peter Stahl, Pitt’s A.W. Mellon Professor of Classics, 4 p.m. Oct. 2, 224B Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s Department of Classics, www.classics.pitt.edu.

Lorie Moore, author, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5, Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Series, 412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

A Conversation With Paul O’Neil and Henry Kissinger, evening with former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State, respectively, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 5, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

“Skewed Sex Ratio at Birth and Women’s Roles and Status in South Korea,” Young Rae Oum, Pitt postdoctoral student, noon, Oct. 8, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, 412-648-7370, www.ucis.pitt.edu.

“Shakespeare Italianate: Skeptical Crises in Three Plays of Shakespeare,” Lawrence F. Rhu, University of South Carolina professor of English and comparative literature, 5 p.m. Oct. 9, 244B Cathedral of Learning, Nicholas C. Tucci Lecture, Pitt Department of French and Italian Lauguages and Literatures, www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu.

“Why We Need an Updated Osler Report and Not a Flexner Report,” Stephen Greenberg, Baylor College of Medicine’s senior vice president, dean of medical education, noon Oct. 9, Lecture Room 3, Scaife Hall, Medical Education Grand Rounds, School of Medicine’s Office of the Vice Dean, 412-648-9000, www.megr.pitt.edu.

“The Emergence of an International Framework for Privacy Protection— Next Steps,” Marc Rotenberg, executive director of Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, 4 p.m. Oct. 9, University Club, Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership, Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, 412-648-1336, gspiaji@pitt.edu.

Almost Human: Making Robots Think, discussion led by book’s author, Lee Gutkind, 3:30 p.m. Oct. 11, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3151, www.clpgh.org.

Miscellaneous

University of Pittsburgh Fall 2009 Career Fair, 1-5 p.m. Sept. 30, Petersen Events Center, Pitt Student Employment and Placement Assistance, www.hire.pitt.edu.

Cultural District Gallery Crawl, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 2, throughout Downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Le Sang des Bêtes (1949, Georges Franju) and Modify (2005, Jason Gary, Greg Jacobson), film screenings with presentation by Nathaniel Heggins Bryant, second-year PhD student in Pitt’s Department of English’s Film Studies Program, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 1501 Posvar, Cinematheque Series Extreme Cinema: The Many Faces of Shock, dsc24@pitt.edu, www.filmstudies.pitt.edu.

Opera/Theater/Dance

10th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, featuring six theatrical performances produced by area youths, through Oct. 4, City Theater, 1300 Bingham St., South Side, 412-431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany.org.

The Dutchman and The Slave, two one-act plays by Amiri Baraka, Oct. 1-10, Pitt’s Kuntu Reportory Theatre, 7th-floor Auditorium, Alumni Hall, 412-624-7298, www.kuntu.org.

Ella, musical based on Jeffrey Hatcher’s book about Ella Fitzgerald, Oct. 1-Nov. 1, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theater, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org.

Off The Record IX: High School Confidential, musical theater, 8 p.m. Oct. 1, Byham Theater, 101Sixth St., Downtown, proceeds benefit Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Eugene Onegin, opera by Tchaikovsky, Oct. 2 and 4, Benedum Theatre, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Opera, 412-281-0912, www.pittsburghopera.org.

Student Choreography Project, choreographed dance performance, Oct. 2-4, George Rowland White Performance Studio, Point Park University, Downtown, Point Park’s Pittsburgh Playhouse 2009-10 Series, 412-621-4445, www.pittsburghplayhouse.com.

Kidd Pivot, dance performance, 8 p.m. Oct. 3, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh Dance Council 2009-10 Season, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

David Copperfield: An Intimate Evening of Grand Illusion, Oct. 7-8, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Cohen and Grigsby Trust Presents Series, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Forever Plaid, musical theater, Oct. 8-March 28, 2010, Theater Square Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, CLO Cabaret, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

One Life to Lose, murder mystery, 10 p.m. Oct. 10, Late-Night Cabaret Theater, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Mystery’s Most Wanted, 412-325-6769, www.pgharts.org.

Pitt PhD Dissertation Defenses

Andrea Lock Hergenroeder, School of Education’s Department of Health and Physical Activity, “The Influence of Body Mass Index on Self-report and Performance-based Measures of Physical Function in Adult Women,” 1:30 p.m. Oct. 6, 3035 Petersen Events Center.