University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Oct. 4-17

CONCERTS
Pitt Choirs Showcase, featuring Heinz Chapel Choir, Women’s Choral Ensemble, and Men’s Glee Club in a celebration of choral music spanning folk, popular, and classical pieces, 4 p.m. Oct. 4, First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh, 159 N. Bellefield Ave., Oakland, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu

Pitt’s Symphony Orchestra Performs Rubinstein and Dvořák, featuring Dvořák’s Symphonic Variations and student soloist Gabriel Freedman performing Anton Rubinstein’s Piano Concerto no. 4 in D minor, op. 70, 8 p.m. Oct. 7, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu

Music on the Edge: Musical Fusions Concert I, featuring Ensemble N_JP performing works by Amy Williams and Toshi Hosokawa, traditional pieces for sho and koto, and the premiere of Systole, a music and video collaboration by Gene Coleman and Adam Vidiksis, 8 p.m. Oct. 16, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu 

Music on the Edge: Musical Fusions Concert II, featuring Music From China performing recently commissioned works by Chen Yi, Eric Moe, Huang Ruo, and Wang Guowei, 8 p.m. Oct. 17, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu

WEBINAR
“The Business School within the University—A Changing Role?” hosted by Arjang Assad, Henry E. Haller Jr. Dean of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration, and moderated by Audrey Murrell, associate dean of the College of Business Administration, noon-1 p.m. Oct. 7, 20th-anniversary celebration of the College of Business Administration, register here 

LECTURES
“Black/White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States,” Bhashkar Mazumder, senior economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, noon-1:30 p.m. Oct. 8, School of Social Work Conference Center, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Center on Race and Social Problems, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2015 Speaker Series, www.crsp.pitt.edu 

“Realism,” Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, 2 p.m. Oct. 9, 2500/2501 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Pitt Department of Philosophy, www.philosophy.pitt.edu

“Reunification for Everybody? Minoritarian Perspectives on German Reunification,” Priscilla Layne, assistant professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 3-5 p.m. Oct. 16, 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Celebration of 25 Years of German Unity, Pitt Department of German, www.german.pitt.edu

SYMPOSIUMS
(Des)Articulaciones 2015, the fifth biennial international symposium explores the aesthetic and ideological dialogues established in Latin America in the face of its entrance to modernity, Oct. 9-10, fifth and sixth floors, Cathedral of Learning, Conference Room A, University Club, 123 University Pl., Oakland, Pitt Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, www.hispanic.pitt.edu

Music on the Edge: Musical Fusions Symposium I, Naomi Sato (sho) and Naoko Kikuchi (koto) demonstrate their instruments’ uses in traditional and contemporary music, and composer Gene Coleman and video artist Adam Vidiksis discuss the Systole project, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 17, 132 Music Building, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu

EXHIBITION
Reverberations, the Department of Studio Arts faculty members show their work, through Oct. 23, University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Pitt Department of Studio Arts, www.studioarts.pitt.edu

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