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PSO fans, don't panic -- it is the Stuttgart Opera, not the PSO Honeck is leaving!: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra maestro Manfred Honeck will not extend his contract as general music director of the Stuttgart Opera, the company announced today. He will depart after the 2010-11 season before the new...
Here is my review of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert Friday at Heinz Hall, highlighted by the odd decision to offer only half of a work by composer Richard Danielpour. Also, unless we hear otherwise, we should be inferring that any violinist who sits in the concertmaster chair is a candidate...
Just to stop the rumors ... before they start. The able conductor Betsy Burleigh is starting a new job in Boston at Chorus pro Musica, but she isn't leaving her post as music director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. In fact, she thinks trading Cleveland (where she ran and organized choruses...
UPDATE: He is a review of the production. Honeck cannot seem to get away from controversial productions at Stuttgart! The International Herald Tribune November 4, 2009 Wednesday Stefan Herheim imagines 'Rosenkavalier' as an erotic fantasy BYLINE: George Loomis In the same country but in a different...
The Pittsburgh Symphony's recent short festival tour to Europe garnered the fewest amount of reviews I have ever seen on a European trek. They have been translated, and I thought instead of interpreting them with excerpts, I would use the virtual endless space of the Web to let you look at them in...
Here is the word from Heinz Hall this past weekend. The PSO put on a fine show with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Camille Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No. 2, and the band playing Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique" conducted by Marek Janowski.
Remember Michael Hersch ? Pittsburgh Symphony patrons and musicians had a love affair with him after Mariss Jansons started championing his music in 2000, and I poured in some big articles , too. Of course, not everyone liked his music here as much as I and others did, which is to be expected with new...
Here is the full sked on the recently announced Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra tour to Europe in May. I know that your eyes might glaze over when you hear Heinz Hall trumpeting yet another tour, and a European one at that, but this one is really significant. At least one leg near the end: If the PSO is...
I have word from the most solid of sources (a famous local music librarian) that the first meeting of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Book Club met last Tuesday to great success. It will meet periodically this season to read and discuss books that pertain to music in general or specifically to go with...