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...
View Article‘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,...
View ArticleDenis 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...
View ArticleConcert 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleConcert 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...
View ArticleConcert 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...
View ArticleBendix-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...
View ArticleConcert 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...
View ArticleConcert 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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