Spotlight: The Band Played On
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has reached audiences worldwide with its six-episode “front row” series, which continues this month.
January 21, 2021
PHOTOS BY KRISTI JAN HOOVER & JULIE GOETZ
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s “Front Row” series travels from Fallingwater to The Andy Warhol Museum and incorporates Pittsburghers such as Fred Rogers and Thaddeus Mosley. Episodes showcase the music of composers ranging from Beethoven to Pittsburgh native and Julliard student Hannah Ishizaki.
Under normal circumstances, the dynamic video series co-produced by Flying Scooter Productions would be an extraordinary accomplishment. In a pandemic, it’s been a necessity as well.
Column: Cleveland Browns’ road playoff victory takes USD coach back to ’69 [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
If you were stunned to see the Cleveland Browns go up 28 points on the Pittsburgh Steelers last week in an NFL playoff game, it didn’t mark you as a football rube.
In Rancho Bernardo, football lifer Dale Lindsey stared in disbelief.
“I was shocked to see what was going on,” said the University of San Diego’s head coach, who played in eight NFL playoff games as a Browns linebacker and coached on San Diego’s only Super Bowl team.
It wasn’t that Lindsey, 77, regarded the Browns as chumps.
Photo: Anna Labick slowdanger’s Taylor Knight and Anna Thompson The pandemic has forced nearly everything online, including performing arts that would otherwise take place in front of a live audience. While this has become a necessity, Taylor Knight and Anna Thompson, co-artistic directors of the multidisciplinary performance duo slowdanger, were frustrated with the limitations of going digital. “As a performer, it just makes me sad sometimes to watch a performance online,” says Thompson. “While we have participated in a lot of virtual performing, there s almost a flattening of interaction, where you re kind of passively watching the screen.” The two decided to work with a number of fellow artists from Pittsburgh and around the country to create