All You Need is Love

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Show Publicist: Diana Roth, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
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Search:  All You Need Is Love 2014

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
A BEATLES TRIBUTE CONCERT
CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE BEATLES COMING TO AMERICA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014 │ 7:30 P.M. │ BYHAM THEATER

PITTSBURGH, PA:  The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE A Beatles Tribute Concert, will be presented by Rich Engler on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, at 7:30 p.m., at the Byham Theater.  This live concert celebrates the music of the The Beatles and their first and historic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, on February 9, 1964.  Tickets range in price from $43.75 to $63.75.  To purchase tickets and for more information, visit TrustArts.org, call 412-456-6666.  You can also purchase tickets in person at the Theater Square Box Office, located at 655 Penn Avenue, Downtown Pittsburgh.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Beatles coming to America, this concert will feature over 20 musicians performing live, note for note, all 26 tracks from the LOVE album (soundtrack remix album of music recorded by The Beatles, and released in November 2006), along with elements from over 130 songs.
The album placed at #3 in the UK Album Chart during its first week of release.  In the United States, the release placed #4 in the Billboard 200, and was certified platinum in 2006.  The album won Grammys in two categories (2008)-Best Compilation Soundtrack Album and Best Surround Sound Album.   The 26 tracks from LOVE include: "Because", "Get Back", "Glass Onion", "Eleanor Rigby (with "Julia" transition), "I Am the Walrus", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Drive My Car"/"The Word"/"What You're Doing", "Gnik Nus", "Something" (with "Blue Jay Way" transition) (George Harrison), "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"/"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"/"Helter Skelter", "Help!", "Blackbird"/"Yesterday", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Within You Without You"/"Tomorrow Never Knows" (Harrison, Lennon-McCartney), "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Octopus's Garden" (Richard Starkey) (with "Sun King" transition), "Lady Madonna", "Here Comes the Sun" (with "The Inner Light" transition) (Harrison), "Come Together"/"Dear Prudence" (with "Cry Baby Cry" transition), "Revolution", "Back in the U.S.S.R.", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Harrison), "A Day in the Life", "Hey Jude", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" and "All You Need Is Love".

This concert is not affiliated with Cirque du Soleil, Apple Corps Ltd. or The Beatles.  For more information about Rich Engler, visit:www.RichEngler.com

ABOUT THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity.  Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.
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Classical Mystery Tour Brought to Scottish Rite Cathedral

For Immediate Release
Oct. 19, 2012

RELIVE MAGIC OF THE BEATLES AS PSO BRINGS

‘CLASSICAL MYSTERY TOUR’ TO SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL 

PSO’s new Assistant Conductor Fawzi Haimor conducts

NEW CASTLE, Pa. – The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) begins its 12th year of performances at the Scottish Rite Cathedral with the Classical Mystery Tour, a special tribute to the Beatles’ acclaimed album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Clen Moore Church, Scottish Rite Cathedral, New Castle

The concert, led by the PSO’s newly appointed Assistant Conductor Fawzi Haimor, will begin at 8 p.m., Monday, Nov. 19, at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in New Castle.

Concert tickets, ranging from $16 to $59, can be purchased by calling the Heinz Hall box office toll-free at 1.800.743.8560, or by visiting the PSO online at www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Group tickets also are available. As part of an education program developed for the community, a special package for families with children up to high-school age is available. Children may get free tickets if accompanied by a parent. Both the free ticket and a discounted ticket for the parents are available by calling  412.392.4819. Also, pre-concert dinners at the Scottish Rite Cathedral begin at 6 p.m. before each concert. Call 724.654.6683 for reservations. Three-concert subscriptions, ranging from $33 to $150, as well as student subscription packages for $24, are also available.

There will be shuttle service in New Castle for all three PSO concerts. The shuttle costs $1 for a round trip, and begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Downtown Parking Garage, before stopping at the Washington Center parking lot and Clen Moore Church.

Described by the Los Angeles Times as providing “a high goose-bump quotient,” the Classical Mystery Tour concert features four musicians who look and sound just like The Beatles. A tribute to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the first rock album to ever win a Grammy for Album of the Year, this show is more than a rock concert. It presents more than two dozen Beatles tunes transcribed note-for-note and performed exactly as they were originally recorded.

Classical Mystery Tour features Jim Owen (John Lennon) on rhythm guitar, piano, and vocals; Tony Kishman (Paul McCartney) on bass guitar, piano, and vocals; John Brosnan (George Harrison) on lead guitar and vocals; and Chris Camilleri (Ringo Starr) on drums and vocals.

Fawzi Haimor

Fawzi Haimor is the newly appointed Assistant Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra beginning in the 2012-2013 season. Prior to his Pittsburgh appointment, he was the Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Symphony for two seasons. In Alabama, he conducted a variety of concerts including subscription, pops, education, and outreach.  Additionally, Mr. Haimor had the pleasure to work with numerous orchestras including the Amman Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and Orquestra Sinfonico do Porto and has collaborated with famous artists such as Bela Fleck, Bobby Horton, Diane Schuur, and Luciana Souza.  He has also served as a cover conductor to esteemed conductors including Justin Brown, Marvin Hamlisch, Grant Llewellyn, Michael Morgan, Robert Spano, Stefan Sanderling, and Michael Stern.

A resident of London, John Brosnan is a songwriter and musician who grew up in Melbourne, Australia. He studied classical piano performance and theory at the Conservatorium of Music before switching to guitar, which has since become his main instrument. His first professional job came at 18, when he played in an orchestra that accompanied a musical theater production. He then spent the next decade playing in original bands and achieved some minor chart successes in Australia, UK, and the United States. Brosnan first began performing the role of George Harrison in 2000. Since then, he has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East, and Asia with various Beatles productions. In addition to performing with Classical Mystery Tour, he runs a music and film production company in the UK.

Born and raised on Long Island, New York, Chris Camilleri had a convenient drum teacher; his dad. He started listening to Beatles records at a young age and, for many years, played drums and sang along to the recordings. Gradually, Chris gravitated to progressive rock bands, but retained a fondness for The Beatles and eventually formed the internationally-renowned Beatles cover band Liverpool, which still reunites to perform at the Fests For Beatles Fans (formerly Beatlefest). Camilleri has played drums for a variety of touring artists, including Peter Noone (of Herman’s Hermits fame), Badfinger, Micky Dolenz, Joe Walsh, and other Beatles-era bands. He became a good friend and musical associate to Harry Nilsson (who was a contemporary and close friend to all the individual Beatles). In addition to The Beatles, his musical influences include Jethro Tull, Genesis, ELP, and David Bowie. When not playing music, Chris has an active commercial and voice-over career.

Singer-songwriter Tony Kishman was born in Tucson, Ariz., where he began his musical career in the early 1970s.  Although he had been playing guitar for a number of years, it was not until age 19 that Kishman started performing seriously. Kishman's early influences included Wishbone Ash, Bad Company and Peter Frampton.  Between 1973 and 1978, he played guitar in the group Cheap Trix, a cover band performing Top 40 as well as originals. Starting in 1979, Kishman played bass and guitar for six years as Paul McCartney in both the national and international tours ofBeatlemania.  He then went on to perform in Legends in Concert and produced shows that ran in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe.  He joined the classic group Wishbone Ash for a tour of Europe and the recording of the group's 18th album.

Jim Owen was born and raised in Huntington Beach, Calif. He gained rich musical experience from his father, who played music from the classics for him on the piano and from his extensive library of recordings by the great classical artists. Owen began studying the piano at 6, and won honors in various piano performance competitions through his teenage years. He was 8 years old when he first heard The Beatles, and promptly decided to take up the study of the guitar. His first professional performance as a Beatle was at 16.  Then, at 18, he began touring internationally with various Beatles tribute productions, visiting Japan, Korea, China, Canada, Mexico, and much of South America. In 1996, Owen began working on his idea for a new show with orchestra. It has long been his dream to share with the public live performances of some of the greatest music ever written and recorded.Classical Mystery Tour was the result. Most recently, Owen became associate producer of the dance musical Shag With a Twist, which premiered in Los Angeles in 2005, and debuted in Las Vegas July, 2006.

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Contact: James Barthen, Vice President of Public Affairs
Phone: 412.392.4835 | email: jbarthen@pittsburghsymphony.org

Contact: Ramesh Santanam, Director of Media Relations
Phone: 412.392.4827 | email: rsantanam@pittsburghsymphony.org

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PNC Pops Concerts Tickets on Sale

 For Immediate Release
August 27, 2012

TICKETS ON SALE FOR FIRST THREE 2012-2013 PNC POPS CONCERTS

PITTSBURGH –Tickets are now on sale for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) PNC Pops concerts Matthew Morrison, A Tribute to The Beatles with Classical Mystery Tour and Highmark Holiday Pops.

Matthew Morrison

The 2012-2013 season’s first PNC Pops concerts will be Sept. 29 & 30, when Matthew Morrison, star of the hit TV show, Glee, joins the PSO to perform favorite hits from his forthcoming album of Broadway standards. The PSO will be led by Grammy Award-winner Lucas Richman, music director of the Knoxville and Bangor Symphony orchestras.

The concerts begin at 2:30 and 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29 and 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30.  Tickets range from $20 to $108.

Classical Mystery Tour returns with a special tribute to the Beatles’ acclaimed album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – the first rock album to ever win a Grammy for Album of the Year. Audiences will hear Beatles hits presented by a group of musicians that look, sound and play just like John, Paul, George and Ringo, along with the PSO led by our new Assistant Conductor Fawzi Haimor.

The concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15; 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16; 2:30 & 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18. Tickets range from $20 to $98.

Rachel DeShon

Daniel Meyer, music director of the Asheville Symphony and Erie Philharmonic and former PSO resident conductor, will lead the hugely-popular Highmark Holiday Pops concert. Allegheny County’s “Singing Sheriff,” Ricky Manning, returns to Heinz Hall to perform at these concerts, which also feature the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and other guest artists. Celebrate the season with carols and much-loved holiday music, including "Sleigh Ride" and selections from The Nutcracker.

This year’s star-studded concerts begin at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20; 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21; 2:30 & 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22; and 2:30 & 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23. Tickets range from $20 to $98.

Violinist Jenny Oaks Baker

All tickets can be purchased by calling the Heinz Hall box office at 412.392.4900, or visiting the PSO atwww.pittsburghsymphony.org. Prices are subject to change.

The PSO would like to recognize and thank PNC for their 2012-2013 title sponsorship of PNC Pops. The PSO would like to recognize and thank Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield for their 2012 title sponsorship of Highmark Holiday Pops. Fairmont Pittsburgh is the official hotel of the PSO.

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Contact: James Barthen, Vice President of Public Affairs
Phone: 412.392.4835 | email: jbarthen@pittsburghsymphony.org

Contact: Ramesh Santanam, Director of Media Relations
Phone: 412.392.4827 | email: rsantanam@pittsburghsymphony.org

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