Saturday, March 16, 4pm
We continued our regular season with selections in the spirit of Carnival: Dvorak’s Carnival Overture and Chabrier’s España, interspersed with Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte and two movements from Elgar’s ‘Cello Concerto, featuring the Lorraine Lippert Young Artist winner, Nathan Choe. Rounding out the afternoon was a stellar performance of Haydn’s Clock Symphony.
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Elgar – ‘Cello Concerto
España
Sunday, December 17, 2023 7pm
The Pittsburgh Philharmonic’s annual holiday concert includes sparkling and festive music sure to get the whole family feeling the spirit of the season. This year’s program includes a symphonic journey through Rome with Ottorino Respighi’s colorful Fountains of Rome. Not only is each movement inspired by a different fountain in the city, but the music captures the experience of visiting each one at a particular time of day. Finally, the holidays wouldn’t feel complete without Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Heightening the experience, members of the Classical Dance Academy of Pittsburgh will join the orchestra in performing highlights from the ballet.
Nutcracker Suite
Fountains of Rome
Christmas Song
Christmas Festival
Sleigh Ride
Saturday, October 21, 2023 7pm
The 2023-24 season begins with a program of extremely soulful and exuberant music. The strings of the orchestra are featured in George Walker’s tender and meditative Lyric for Strings, before the full forces of the Philharmonic take the stage for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s powerful Overture to the Song of Hiawatha, a work that references the spiritual “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.” The program ends with Tchaikovsky’s soul-searching Symphony No. 4 in F minor.
Lyric for Strings
Overture to “Song of Hiawatha”
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4