PITTSBURGH – Celebrate the music that made movies great! Grammy-nominated saxophonist Dave Koz will join Principal Pops Conductor Marvin Hamlisch as he leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in PNC Pops concerts celebrating memorable songs from the movies. The concerts, “Marvin, Dave & the Movies,” begin at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26; 8 p.m., Friday, Jan. [...]
Concert will include Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and Music Director Manfred Honeck announced Monday that the PSO will perform at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall in 2014 as part of the fourth Spring For Music festival. Honeck and the PSO will close the festival on May 10, 2014 with a [...]
PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) Principal Pops Conductor Marvin Hamlisch and Fairmont Pittsburgh Executive Chef Andrew Morrison will trade places next week. Hamlisch will host An Evening of Cooking and Conducting at Habitat restaurant at the Fairmont at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 23, to benefit the PSO. Hamlisch will take “center stage” at Habitat [...]
Jan. 20 concert to be held at August Wilson Center for the first time; features August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, PSO Associate Concertmaster Mark Huggins PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s (PSO) 6th annual “Tribute” concert, celebrating African American culture and its influence, will be held for the first time at the August Wilson Center [...]
Pittsburgh-area soprano Katy Williams, 16-year-old violinist Inori Sakai soloists PITTSBURGH – Warm up inside Heinz Hall as Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh joins Fiddlesticks and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) in musical adventures of the chilly season of winter. The children’s concert, “Skate into Winter,” begins at 11:15 a.m., on Saturday, Jan. 21, at Heinz Hall. [...]
Spiritual. Pulchritudinous. Sublime. Angelic. Ethereal. Intellectual. Those words can only touch the colorful and rhythmic evening the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, renowned percussion soloist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Composer of the Year Steven Stucky, and guest Slovakian conductor Juraj Valčuha offered to the audience in Heinz Hall on Friday evening. ‘Once upon a time…’Ravel’s Suite from “Mother [...]
My friend Miki Sarkozi and his father Miklos accompanied me to the concert last weekend. Miki wrote his impressions of the evening… There’s a knowledgeable student at Duquesne University in the Percussion group, hosted a lively demonstration before the concert and took the time to explain to me the types of gongs in use. The [...]
My trips to Heinz Hall to see and hear the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are mostly driven by the joy of music. Yet there’s often much more offered than just the music. Tonight I was treated to a very entertaining introduction to the Steven Stucky’s Spirit Voices, Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. In the lobby members [...]
Post concert, Friday and Saturday only, the Starling Honors Quartet, Carnegie Mellon University performed Steven Stucky’s “Nell’Ombra Nella Luce”. The all-female quartet consists of: Hilary Gamble, Violin; Sonia Shklarov, Violin; Ai Wen Thian, Viola; and Marlene Ballena, Cello, all of which who are very talented musicians. The composition, also being by Stucky, had the modern [...]
Jan. 20 concert to be held at August Wilson Center for the first time; features August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, PSO Associate Concertmaster Mark Huggins PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s (PSO) 6th annual “Tribute” concert, celebrating African American culture and its influence, will be held for the first time at the August Wilson Center [...]
