August Concerts
CLO July 30-Auguat 4, The Benedum Center One August 6-11, The Benedum Center Hello Dolly!
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July Concerts
CLO July 12-21, The Benedum Center Peter Pan July 23-28, The Benedum Center Rock of Ages July 30-Auguat 4, The Benedum Center One
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June Concerts
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra May 31 & June 1-2, Heinz Hall Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Sibelius: Pohjola’s Daughter Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh June 6-9, Heinz Hall Beethoven’s Ninth Jonathan Leshnoff: Double Concerto for Clarinet & Bassoon Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 June 14 & 16, Heinz Hall Igor Levit Plays Mozart Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 Strauss: An Alpine Symphony Pittsburgh Camerata June 5, Shadyside Presbyterian Church Britain and Beyond: Join the professional vocal ensemble as they sing folk songs of an empire as well as beloved ballads, love songs and odes. Explore…
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May Concerts
Quantum Theatre May 10 – June 2, Carrie Blast Furnaces King Lear About the experience: Act 1 is staged in the shadow of the Carrie Deer, an iconic sculpture created from materials sourced onsite by the Industrial Arts Co-op in the late 1990s. Responding to nature’s resurgence in this post-industrial space neglected in the aftermath of the collapsed steel industry, these guerilla artists included Jeffrey Carpenter (playing Lear) and Tim Kaulen. An intermission walk takes the audience to seating in the Iron Garden for Act 2, where native plants and concrete relics evoke ancient Britain. In the twilight of a stone-ringed clearing, the audience intimately experiences the king’s exile and madness. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra…
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April Concerts
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra April 5-7, Heinz Hall Tchaikovsky & Brahms Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn Blacher: Orchestra-variations on a Theme of Niccolò Paganini Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 April 12 & 14, Heinz Hall Slatkin at 75! Slatkin: Kinah Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 Elgar: Enigma Variations City Theatre April 6-May 12, 1300 Bingham Street The Burdens by Matt Schatz Pittsburgh Camerata April 13, Shadyside Presbyterian Church Messiah: Although popular in December, the premiere performance took place at Easter-time in Dublin on April 13, 1742. Our performance matches this time-frame, and offers an opportunity to hear this profound work…
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Unbelievable Performances
The first time I had the occasion to watch a broadcast of The Kennedy Center Honors was in December of 2012 when, among others, Led Zeppelin were recipients. Wow! Since then, I’ve watched every award broadcast (this year, Martha Argerich, The Eagles, Al Pacino, Mavis Staples, and James Taylor will be honored) and researched back many years – many performances are available on Youtube. In short, The Kennedy Center Honors are the finest produced award shows you will ever witness. I have listed below my favorites, some are artist introductions, most are wonderful, heart-stopping performances. Please watch all of these…
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PSO – J.S. Bach: St. John Passion
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra March 6, 2016 J.S. Bach: St. John Passion Manfred Honeck, conductor Sam Helfrich, director Vocalists: Martin Lattke, Paul Armin Edelmann, Sunhae Im, Andrey Nemzer, Thomas Cooley, Lucas Meachem, Alexander Elliott, Jeffrey Klefstad, Amelia D’Arcy, Jonathan MacDonald The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh Bach, Beethoven and Brahms – the classical music triumvirate, the original killer B’s. I have been a huge fan of J.S. Bach’s music since I had the opportunity to sing his B Minor Mass as an undergraduate music student in Cincinnati. Universally acknowledged as a genius, his music is not programmed by symphony orchestras as much…
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PSO – Conrad Tao: Pángu
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra November 1, 2015 Tao: Pángu Gershwin: Concerto in F major for Piano and Orchestra Strauss: Symphonia Domestica Conrad Tao: Pángu When I select PSO concerts each season to include in my subscription, as a composer, I naturally focus on concerts that include contemporary works. And so my primary interest in this concert was Conrad Tao’s Pángu. Pángu is a short, concert overture length work (7 minutes) for full orchestra. The composer’s program notes first relate the Chinese creation myth of Pángu and then proceed to detail how the composition reflects various aspects of the myth. Pángu is…