Week of Events
Honeck Conducts The Firebird
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra announced a 2021-22 season replete with new collaborations and a healthy balance of contemporary curiosities and cherished chestnuts from the orchestral repertoire. Manfred Honeck conducts The Firebird on Friday February 11, 2022 - Sunday, February 13, 2022, along with Kian Soltani, cello. Erwin Schulhof: Five Pieces, Schumann: Concerto in A minor […]
Music Mondays presents The Horszowski Trio & Amadi Akizawe, viola
Music Mondays presents The Horszowski Trio & Amadi Akizawe, viola
The “eloquent, enthralling” Horszowski Trio (Boston Globe) is one of the most widely admired American ensembles, with an expanding reputation abroad; they gave a sold-out performance at London’s Wigmore Hall in 2019. The Trio is joined by violist and Harlem Symphony Orchestra director, Amadi Akizawe, for Dvořák’s luminous Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, heard alongside […]
Equity Study Group: United States vs Billie
Equity Study Group: United States vs Billie
Billie Holiday is one of jazz’s most important figures, many are familiar with her music and the infamous story of Strange Fruit but not many know the context of the story and what makes Holiday one of the US’s artist-activists and civil rights champions. In this month's Equity Study Group, we will discuss Lee Daniel's […]
Dvořák, Higdon & Rouse
Dvořák, Higdon & Rouse
Join The Symphony for a musical encounter featuring the ethereal blue cathedral by acclaimed female composer Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse’s explosive and passionate Flute Concerto, featuring The Symphony’s very own Principal Flutist Jesse Tatum. Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony rounds out the program. Date & Time: Sunday, February 13, 2022 […]