Maritime Music - Aye, aye, matey! This week on Harmonia, we'll explore the impact of maritime culture on music from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. How does a ship's trumpeter end up leading the Piffari del Doge in 15th-century Venice? Join us and "sea."
Following in the footsteps of the great musician Louis Armstrong, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis periodically gives away his trumpets! What a way to "pay it forward"! You'll hear Wynton Marsalis doing triple-duty on just ONE trumpet playing a concerto by Georg Philipp Telemann.
Cleveland-born cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins Music Director Franz Welser-Möst to perform Barber's "lyric and romantic" Cello Concerto. The concerto is bookended by the world premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull's Can You See? and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 (revised 1947 version).
Benjamin Hochman returns to Heinz Hall to perform Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Pittsburgh Orchestra favorite Gianandrea Noseda conducts "From Italy" by Richard Strauss and "The Night of Plato" by Victor de Sabata.
Organist Thomas Mueller played the fifth and final program on the 2022 Summer Concert Series on August 14, 2022. Dr. Mueller is Professor of Music at Concordia University in Irvine, CA, and Associate Organist at the Church of Saint James in the City (Episcopal) in Los Angeles. He plays music of Bach, Torres and Reimann.