Friday night is shaping up to be a painful one for music lovers who are also hockey fans. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is performing Mahler's amazing Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" at Heinz Hall and the Pittsburgh Penguins are playing the Detroit Red Wings in the seventh game of the Stanly Cup Final (that's determined Sidney Crosby on the right)
Yikes! Both are pretty rare events, especially when you consider that this is probably the last time you will get to hear music director Manfred Honeck's interpretation of Mahler's Second (and it will not be programmed again for many years, I think). We can at least hope to see the young Pens in the finals down the road. But why do they both have to be at 8 Friday night?!
But there is hope.
The Mahler will begin at 8:06 p.m. and run 85 minutes with no intermission. The Penguins-Wings game will start aroun 8:15 p.m. and run till around 10:30 p.m. That means PSO patrons will get out around 9:40 p.m., if you do the right thing and stay and applaud -- in plenty of time to catch the third period at a bar or even perhaps at your home. Don't forget to listen to it on 105.9 FM as you drive.
The best senario would be a Pens blowout so we can enjoy the third period without killing ourselves to drive home! But, guessing how this series has gone, it will be a tight one. Actually, that would be nice, too, because it would mean that the third period still has excitment for those of us who missed the first two.
Me? I will have to write the PSO review during that third period, so think of me when you are enjoying it.
Go Pens!
Posted
Jun 11 2009, 11:40 AM
by
Andrew Druckenbrod