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On today’s episode of The Confluence: As the Pittsburgh Public Schools board opens public comment on the process to find its next superintendent, we ask a founding member of Black Women for a Better Education for feedback on the search; the Pittsburgh Opera and National Opera House are teaming up to develop educational and community engagement programming; and mid-state crisis centers are concerned about their capacity to handle calls for mental health support as a three-digit helpline goes live nationwide.Today’s guests include: Allyce Pinchback-Johnson, founding member of Black Women for a Better Education; Rebekah Diaz, director of community engagement and IDEA initiatives with Pittsburgh Opera, and Jonnet Solomon, executive director of the National Opera House.
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Christopher Cerrone's "In a Grove" shares source material with famed film "Rashomon."
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Labor Day heralds the start of the fall arts season in Pittsburgh. And in any other year, theater companies, dance troupes and other performing-arts…
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Just like the news these days, the new opera “The Last American Hammer” is more than a little absurd, and more than a little tragic.The satire depicts a…
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Like other traditional art forms – classical music, theater, ballet – opera is always seeking ways to attract new and younger audiences. While some…
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In December 1963, an Army captain named Floyd James Thompson shipped out from Fort Bragg, N.C. to Vietnam. It was just weeks after the assassination of…
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Pittsburgh Opera’s new world-premiere performance, Douglas J. Cuomo’s Ashes & Snow, might be an edgy, contemporary work, but it was inspired by a classic…
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An immersive theater production will take visitors to places normally off-limits at the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History. Downtown-based…
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When Sean Gibson was first approached by a musician wanting to write an opera about his great-grandfather, he was a little skeptical.“I remember talking…
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There is no fancy set, no elaborate costumes. Just a small three-level stage, a string quartet and two opera singers — who both happen to be playing the…