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Three Pieces Showcase Program Music

By Carrie Garrison At last Friday’s Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert, a program was led by conductor Leonard Slatkin and featured Conrad Tao on piano. At first glance this difficult program seemed...

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‘West Side Story’ film at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts with live orchestra

Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts transformed, as it sometimes does, into a big cinema Friday night. In 1961, the film “West Side Story” was first shown at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, in Hollywood,...

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Denis Kozhukhin plays Rachmaninoff

This past Friday evening at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh, a program given of Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and Rossini’s music was marked by poise, musical clarity and an excitement...

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Concert Blog: Love, Romance and Music

A snowy Friday night in February was warmed by Pittsburgh Symphony’s concert of classics. Friday night’s program was led by Juraj Valčuha and featured Joshua Roman, in his debut performance, as the...

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When the Musicians Smile

Sometimes, a performance focuses on something specific, like a composer or an era. Sometimes, it focuses on an idea. Sometimes, though, it simply focuses on the music itself. Friday night’s Pittsburgh...

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Concert Blog: Emanuel Ax Play Brahms

Friday’s concert at Heinz Hall for Performing Arts featured the brilliant Polish virtuoso Emanuel Ax in a performance of Brahms’ Concerto No.2 in B-flat major for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 83 and the...

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Concert Blog: Cameron Carpenter and the International Touring Organ

Sometimes in music it really matters that everything is connected in a deep way, in that the pieces are organic so that what comes out of one parameter infests the other and it becomes a unified...

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Bendix-Balgley shines in Brilliant original work “Fidl-Fantazye”

The play of light — that floating, ephemeral stuff, so much like sound itself opened this past Friday evening’s season finale. Former PSO Concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley (2011-2015), now First...

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Concert Blog: Debut conductor Lahav Shani shines

Last weekend the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presented to us an as-yet unfamiliar name in the classical music world — 27-year-old Israeli conductor Lahav Shani. Shani, who is the in­com­ing...

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Concert Blog: A New Romance: Gustavo Dudamel & the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

On the evening of Friday, April 7 at Heinz Hall, Gustavo Dudamel, perhaps the most recognizable conductor in the world, made his debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in lieu of Christoph von...

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