Although many refer to the reaction of the opening night of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring as a "near-riot," today, as a concert piece, it is considered to be one of the most influential works of the 20th century. We'll hear the Pittsburgh Symphony perform it on May 26th.
5/5 Slatkin: Kinah Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 Elgar: Enigma Variations (Garrick Ohlsson, p; Leonard Slatkin, cond)
5/12 Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 Ravel: Bolero (Seong-Jin Cho, p; Manfred Honeck, cond)
5/19 Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 Trifinov: Piano Concerto Tchaikovsky: Caprricio italien (Daniil Trifinov, p; Manfred Honeck, cond)
5/26 Lobo: Suite Popular Brasileira Ginastera: Harp Concerto Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Gretchen van Hoesen, hp; Yan Pascal Tortelier, cond)
