Happenings

Concerts

Double Bass Recital, featuring members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Bass Section, Jeffrey Grubbs, double bass, Alaine Fink, piano, 8 p.m. March 15, Duquesne University’s PNC Recital Hall, Mary Pappert School of Music, 600 Forbes Ave., Uptown, PSO Double Bass Recital Series, www.duq.edu.

Women of the House, Irish trio, 6 p.m. March 17, The Cup & Chaucer café, ground floor, Hillman Library, The Emerging Legends Series, University of Pittsburgh Library System and Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, www.calliopehouse.org.

Chirgilchin, Tuvan throat singer ensemble, 8 p.m. March 19, First Unitarian Church, 605 Morewood Ave., Shadyside, Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, 412-361-2262, www.calliopehouse.org.

The Planets, Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor; Randolph Kelly, viola; and Women of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, 8 p.m. March 19-21, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats available, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Red Stick Ramblers, country and Cajun musical performance, 7:30 p.m. March 20, Pitt Bradford’s Bromley Family Theater, Blaisdell Hall, Pitt-Bradford Prism Series, 814-362-5113, www.upb.pitt.edu.

Dancing in the Isles, musical performance by Musica Pacifica, 8 p.m. March 20, Synod Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland, Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, 412-361-2048, www.rbsp.org.

Exhibitions

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Our Lives, Our Space: Views of Women in a Red-light District, Korea, photography exhibition, March 18-23, Pitt Departments of Anthropology and the History of Art and Architecture, Asian Studies Center, and Women’s Studies Program, Frick Fine Arts Building, 412-624-6485.

Mattress Factory, Likeness, art exhibition, through March 21, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side, 412-231-3169, www.mattress.org.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, My Deviant Muse: Photographic Imagery in Glass, through April 18, 477 Melwood Ave., Oakland, 412-682-4111, www.pghfilmmakers.org.

Pittsburgh Glass Center, From the Earth to the Fire and Back, through June 13, Pittsburgh Glass Center, 5472 Penn Ave., Garfield, 412-365-2145, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org.

Frick Art & Historical Center, 1934: A New Deal for Artists, art exhibition celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Works Progress Administration’s Public Works of Art Program, through April 25, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.frickart.org.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Whales/Tohora, through May 2, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.carnegiemnh.org.

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection, through May 16, 221 N. Main St., Greensburg, 724-837-1500, www.wmuseumaa.org.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Forum 64: Cecil Balmond, through May 30; Gods, Love, and War: Tapestries at Carnegie Museum of Art, through June 13; Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners: Works on Paper From the 18th Through 20th Centuries, ongoing; Imagining Home: Selections From the Heinz Architectural Center, ongoing; Past Meets Present: Decorative Arts and Design, ongoing, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

Senator John Heinz History Center, Discover the Real George Washington: New Views From Mount Vernon, through July 18, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

Lectures/Seminars/Readings

“Rights, Differences, Exclusions,” Etienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, 5 p.m. March 15, Ballroom B, University Club, Pitt European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence, and Humanities Center, www.ucis.pitt.edu.

“Ideas of Europe: Colloquium and Discussion,” Etienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, 12:30 p.m. March 16, 4130 Posvar Hall, Pitt European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence, and Humanities Center, www.ucis.pitt.edu.

Amy Franceschini, assistant professor of art and architecture, University of San Francisco, 5 p.m. March 16, Rashid Auditorium, 4th floor, Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill, Carnegie Mellon School of Art Lecture Series, CMU Human Computer Interaction Institute, 412-268-2409, artscool@andrew.cmu.edu.

“Does the Judge’s Gender Make a Difference?” Pat K. Chew, professor, Pitt School of Law, noon March 17, 2201 Posvar Hall, Pitt Women’s Studies Program, www.wstudies.pitt.edu.

“Effect of Higher Education on the Economic Growth in East Asian Countries,” Eun-Kyung Lee, graduate student, Pitt School of Education, noon March 18, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, Pitt Asian Studies Center, jennm@pitt.edu.

“Crime and Madness: A Dubious Abnormality,” Etienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, 12:30 p.m. March 18, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence, and Humanities Center, www.humcenter.pitt.edu.

Sealing Cheng, Henry Luce Chair, Wellesley College’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, opening lecture for the photography exhibition Our Lives, Our Space: Views of Women in a Red-light District, Korea, 4 p.m. March 18, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pitt Departments of Anthropology and the History of Art and Architecture, Asian Studies Center, and Women’s Studies Program, 412-624-6485.

“DIRT+LIFE=SOIL: Linking Microbial Biodiversity to Soil Structure and Function,” Sherie Edenborn, professor, Chatham University’s science department, 4 p.m. March 18, Room 11, Thaw Hall, Pitt Department of Geology and Planetary Science, www.geology.pitt.edu.

“Out and Equal in the Workplace: Sexual Orientation Discrimination,” M.V. Lee Badgett, director, University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Center for Public Policy and Administration, 6 p.m. March 18, Alcoa Room, Barco Law Building, Pitt School of Law, 412-648-1490, www.law.pitt.edu.

“Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform From The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,” David M. Irby, vice dean for education, University of California, San Francisco, noon March 19, Lecture Room 3, 4th Floor, Scaife Hall, Medical Education Grand Rounds, Office of the Vice Dean, School of Medicine, 412-648-9000, www.megr.pitt.edu.

Miscellaneous

WATS:ON Festival, “Adventures in Virtuality,” featuring artists and designers who work in both analog and digital modes, March 17-20, Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, 5000 Forbes Ave., Oakland, The Jill Watson Family Foundation, 412-268-2409, artscool@andrew.cmu.edu.

University of Pittsburgh Five Campus College Fair for University Faculty and Staff, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. March 18, Connolly Ballroom, Alumni Hall, lep1@pitt.edu.

“Grant Writing,” workshop, 10 a.m. March 20, Lecture Room 2, 4th floor, Scaife Hall, Pitt Survival Skills and Ethics Program, 412-578-3716, www.survival.pitt.edu.

Opera/Theater/Dance

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, musical theater, March 18-28, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, 412-539-0999, www.pittsburghmusicals.com.

Yamamoto Kyogen Company, Japanese classical comic theater, performing two plays: Shido Hogaku (Stop in Your Tracks) and Tsukimi-zato (Moon-viewing Blind Man), 8 p.m. March 20, Charity Randall Theater in the Stephen Foster Memorial, Forbes Avenue off Bigelow Boulevard, Oakland,  Pitt Asian Studies Center, 412-624-7529, www.play.pitt.edu.

Carmen, opera by Bizet, 8 p.m. March 20, 23, 26, 28, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Opera, 412-281-0912, www.pittsburghopera.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats available, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

When January Feels Like Summer, theatrical performance, 5:30 p.m. March 20-April 11, City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side, City Theatre Company, 412-431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany.org.

The Price, by Arthur Miller, theatrical performance, March 4 through April 4, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theater, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org.

Pitt/PhD Dissertation Defenses

Kamil E. Barbour, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, 2:30 p.m. March 16, “Osteoporosis: Identification of Factors Associated With Fracture, Bone Mineral Density, Bone Geometry, and Bone Strength in Older Adults,” A523 Crabtree Hall.

Christin Glorioso, School of Medicine’s Center for Neuroscience/Neurobiology Graduate Program, 1 p.m. March 17, “Between Destiny and Disease: Genetics and Molecular Pathways of Central Nervous System Aging,” Pitt Learning Research and Development Center Auditorium.

Kathy Johnston-Keane, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of the History of Art and Architecture, 2:30 p.m. March 19, “Caravaggio’s Drama: Art, Theater, and Literature During Italy’s Spanish Age,” 104 Frick Fine Arts Building.