Homegrown Stories is a new initiative with Pittsburgh Playhouse and City Theater Company. Five playwrights were commissined to write ten minute plays whch will be performed live Thursday August 6th at 7:30 as part of the City of Asylum the Show Must go On(line) Series. Drew Martorello Assistant  Vice President and Managing Director at Pittsburgh Playhouse Point Park Universtiy  joins Jim Cunningham and  author Marcus Sevens who has contributed In the Macro to be directed by Rachel Stevens,

WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham spoke with Johnstown Symphony Orchestra Music Director James Blachly about his new CD on the Chandos label, "The Prison" by Dame Ethel Smyth.  Originally performed with the JSO, this recording features the Experiential Orchestra and soloists.

Music Director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and the Oratorio Society of Minnesota. Mattew Mehaffey, spoke with WQED-FM about the choirs' collaborative Candid Conversations series and the difficulty around conversations about disenfranchised groups and the canon.

WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham spoke with violinist Augustin Hadelich about his new CD "Bohemian Tales" which features music of Suk, Dvorak and Janacek.  Hadelich also talks about his memories of performing in Pittsburgh.

The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh's Artistic Director and Conductor Thomas W. Douglas spoke with WQED about his weekly webseries "Tuesday's with Thomas," the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh's future plans, and the importance of community during these troubling times.

WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham spoke with guitarist Sharon Isbin about her new CD, "Affinity."

Marilyn Jenkins, Executive Director of the Allegheny County Library Association, spoke with WQED-FM's Jeremy Farbman, about how libraries are dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

WQED-FM's Anna Singer spoke with Marianne Cornetti about "Unstaged" - Pittsburgh Festival Opera's online opera festival.  Ms. Cornetti kicks off the Festival on Friday July 10th, but additional events run through July 26th - all on the Pittsburgh Festival Opera website.  Learn all about it in the conversation.

WQED-FM's spoke with Don Fellows about the 2020 St. Paul's Cathedral Organ Concert Series.  The series is still happening every Sunday afternoon at 3:30pm, with social distancing measures in place.  Learn about the series and the artists in this interview.

Cellist Inbal Segev recorded music by Lucas Richman with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Now she has a new cd on the Avie label with the London Philharmonic conducted by Marin Alsop with Anna Clyne's Dance and the Elgar Cello Concerto.  She talks about Anna Clyne and creating the new music and her work with other women composers and the great classic by Elgar.  Topics include what she is doing during the pandemic in New York, a commissioning project and much more in this interview with Jim Cunningham.