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Pitt: the story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787–1987. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1150-7. Marylynne Pitz (2003). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Rare murals being restored in Pitt fine arts building. Retrieved May 23, 2007. Toker, Franklin (1994) [1986]. Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
The ocarina went on to become popular in European communities as a toy instrument. [1] Ocarina, c. 1900, Museu de la Música de Barcelona. One of the oldest ocarinas found in Europe is from Runik, Kosovo. The Runik ocarina is a Neolithic flute-like wind instrument, and is the earliest prehistoric musical instrument ever recorded in Kosovo. [4]
Giuseppe Donati (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1925) was an Italian musical instrument maker who invented the ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator. [1] Donati was born in Budrio. [2]
The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Stanley Theatre) is a theater and concert hall located at 237 7th Street in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm Hoffman-Henon , it was built in 1928 as the Stanley Theatre.
Bounded by Stanwix Street and the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, [4] the Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2013. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It includes within its boundary the Forks of the Ohio , as well as Gateway Center , the Bell Telephone Company Building , and the Pittsburgh ...
The City of Allegheny was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907, and became known as the North Side. Historians [ who? ] claim that the Felix Brunot mansion on Stockton Avenue ( Allegheny Center ) was once a station on the Underground Railroad , where fugitive slaves from the South stopped for food and shelter.
From 1995 to 2001, the hotel was managed by DT Management Inc., a subsidiary of Hilton Hotel Corporation and was known as the DoubleTree Pittsburgh Hotel at Liberty Center. In 2001, Starwood took over management of the hotel, rebranding it as The Westin Convention Center. [9] [6] In the 1980s it hosted the annual regional ad agency awards ...
Pitsburg was founded under the name of "Arnettsville" in the 19th century, but it languished: an author writing in 1880 described it as "liv[ing] only in name and story."