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By Matt Singer, News Director On the night of Pittsburgh’s Mayoral Primary, WPTS News aired live election commentary from a panel of Pitt students. With contributions from city reporters and campaign staff members, the panel followed the night’s events that showed that for Bill Peduto, who won the Democratic Primary, the third time was the [...]
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www.yellowredsparks.com Indie Folk band Yellow Red Sparks came into the studio today on a stop of their tour across the US, and they played us a few of their songs, on the first of soon to be many WPTS Summer Sessions! Check it out right here: We’ll be having a few more Summer Sessions soon. [...]
General Station
In this week’s WPTS column in The Pitt News, Ali L’Esperance and Matt Singer team up to explore the internet meme of the screaming goat videos and its effect on music (and Taylor Swift’s image). You can read it online here, if you’re afraid of newsstands or allergic to paper.
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http://www.music.pitt.edu/carpathian The department’s newest musical endeavor, the Carpathian Music Ensemble, was founded in fall 2008 and is directed by Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Adriana Helbig. The ensemble performs Gypsy, Klezmer, Armenian, Moldavian, Ukranian, and Macedonian music. Along with their performances for Music at Pitt, the ensemble performs for enthusiastic crowds at local concert venues around [...]
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After a long semester of writing, editing, and designing, the WPTS #TEAMZINE is pleased to announce that the 2013 edition of the WPTS Radio zine has arrived! Come and read one, in its beautiful, matte-gloss form. Featuring everything from a WPTS Program Guide to a discourse on the importance of albums to a maze to [...]