A new season of concerts from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra begins on January 7th with a winter-themed program that ties up the winter holidays.
1/7 Anderson: Sleigh Ride Silvestri: Selections from The Polar Express Handel: Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah Gruber: Silent Night Gervaise: Old French Dances Gabrieli: Canzon duodecimi toni Bach: Prelude (Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh Symphony Brass; Daniel Meyer, Francesco Lecce-Chong and Andres Franco, cond)
1/14 Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture to Romeo and Juliet (Emanuel Ax, p; Manfred Honeck, cond)
1/21 Clyne: Masquerade Offenbach: Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld Schmidt: Intermezzo from Notre Dame Von Suppe: Overture to Poet and Peasant Nielsen: Overture to Maskarade (Manfred Honeck, cond)
1/28 Beethoven: Violin Concerto Mahler: The Song of the Earth (Vilde Frang, v; Matthias Goerne, bar; Manfred Honeck, cond)