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Pittsburgh Symphony Broadcast
FRIDAY, MAY 20 8PM
Jim Cunningham hosts a live broadcast with interviews of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from Heinz Hall. Matthias Pintscher conducts Ravel’s “Mother Goose” and “Alborada del gracioso.”
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Jan Kraybill and Edward Alan Moore
Jan Kraybill is the organist this Sunday, May 15th, 3pm at East Liberty Presbyterian Church (ELPC). Jan was joined by Edward Alan Moore in this conversation with Jim Cunningham about the concert.
Sohrab Mohebbi - Carnegie Museum of Art
Jim Cunningham spoke with the Curator of the 58th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art - Sohrab Mohebbi. He talks about the first round of commissions and more in this podcast.
Tony Buba and Edith Abeyta
Jim Cunningham spoke with documentary filmmaker Tony Buba and installation artist Edith Abeyta about the screening of Tony's documentary "Lightning over Braddock" at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Congratulations Jim Cunningham
Congratulations go out to our own Jim Cunningham, who was presented with the 'Communications Professional Of The Year' award from Thiel College!
Thiel College graduate Jim Cunningham (’77) was given the 2022 James Pedas (’50), H’89 Communications Professional of the Year Award. Cunningham is a senior executive producer at WQED Multimedia. MORE INFORMATION
Pittsburgh Symphony Interviews
María Dueñas and Manfred Honeck
Pianist Jan Lisiecki
Actress & Singer Tamara Tunie, Composer Kathryn Bostic
Pianist Seong-Jin Cho
Conductor Vasily Petrenko
Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan
Violinist Baiba Skride
Composer Jonathan Leshnoff
Pianist Till Fellner
Pianist Beatrice Rana
Conductor Leonard Slatkin & Pianist Garrick Ohlsson
Conductor Emmanuel Krivine
Pianist Bertrand Chamayou
Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado
Pianist Behzod Abduraimov
Cellist Maximilian Hornung
Pianist Kirill Gerstein
Conductor Juanjo Mena
Violinist Ray Chen
Conductor Christoph König
Podcasts
Conductors, soloists and composers involved in making great Pittsburgh Symphony performances talk about their music.
Insights and anecdotes from musicians, dancers, artists, actors and directors, as well as audience response.
A complete two hour concert hosted by Jim Cunningham. Listen for interviews and features, historic recordings and the latest weekly concerts from Heinz Hall.
Did you miss a recent live broadcast? Or do you just want to hear it again? Relive recent WQED-FM live broadcasts on the Encore podcast page. Stream full length broadcasts by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and others.
Where classical music crosses paths with rock and roll, world music, folk music and jazz. As Duke Ellington said "There are only two types of music: good music and the other stuff." Listen to interviews with people who make good music here.
Jim Cunningham reports from the PSO's domestic and international tours.
