For thousands of years the legend has been told of the fountain of youth: a pool of water that restores one's youth. Explorer Ponce de Leon was said to have searched for it in what is now Florida. The legend is even recounted in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Composer Julia Wolfe explores the myth in a piece performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (2/11).
2/4 Tree of Life Broadcast Part: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten Ravel: Kaddish from Deux Melodies Hebraiques Shostakovich: Largo from Symphony No. 5 Macmillan: Larghetto for Orchestra Mendelssohn: Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains from Elijah Brahms: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen from A German Requiem Williams: Three Pieces from Schindler’s List Elgar: Nimrod from Enigma Variations (Itzhak Perlman, v; Michael Rusinek, cl; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Matthew Mehaffey, dir; Manfred Honeck, cond)
2/11 Wolfe: Fountain of Youth Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 Dvorak: Scherzo capriccioso Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor (James Ehnes, v; Manfred Honeck, cond)
2/18 Sibelius; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (Beatrice Rana, p; Pietari Inkinen, cond)
2/25 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 (Herbert Blomstedt, cond)
