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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Opening Weekend Spectacular!

Sep 20, 2019 - Sep 22, 2019

Heinz Hall
600 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

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A Thrilling Kick-Off to the Season

Julia Wolfe: Fountain of Youth | PSO Co-Commission / PSO Premiere
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4
Dvo?ák: Scherzo capriccioso
Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
Borodin: "Polovtsian Dances" from Prince Igor

The Pittsburgh Symphony tunes…Manfred Honeck enters...raises his baton…and the new season begins! Festive showpieces for orchestra: Dvorak’s Scherzo capriccioso, Borodin’s “Polovtsian Dances” (the tune for “Take my hand, I’m a stranger in paradise…”), and a sparkling new work by Julia Wolfe, commissioned for this opening weekend. And “the soulful and immaculate,” (The Guardian of London) James Ehnes plays Saint-Saens’ delightful Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, and inaugurates the season long survey of the great Mozart Violin Concertos.