Fearless: Yunchan Lim Plays Rachmaninoff with the Pittsburgh Symphony
Yunchan Lim’s gold-winning performance of Rachmaninoff at the Van Cliburn, the Olympics of the piano, when he was 18 earned 10 million views. Now, he’s an electrifying artist people travel the world to see. Lim makes his PSO debut with \Rachmaninoff’s famously challenging and profoundly powerful Second Piano Concerto.
Conductor leads some evocative music by Debussy and a playful and punchy love triangle dance track by Manuel De Falla.
TICKETS AND PROGRAM DETAILS
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs
- Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
- Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, with Yunchan Lim at the piano
- De Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (Complete Ballet)
Concerts are at Heinz Hall on Friday, March 1st at 8 pm and – Sunday, March 3rd , 2024 at 2:30 pm. Tickets at https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/84670/list_performance
Pittsburgh Concert Chorale’s Classics Concerts Present Faure Requiem and Bernstein Chichester Psalms on March 2nd and 3rd
Experience two stunning choral masterpieces in one exquisite concert with Pittsburgh Concert Chorale. Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem is extraordinary in its beauty and expression of emotion with a final movement that is truly transcendent. Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms is a reflection on humankind’s closeness to God. If your only experience with Leonard Bernstein is West Side Story, Chichester Psalms just might become your new favorite.
TICKETS AND DETAILS
Two Dates, Two Venues – Location and Admission:
- Saturday, March 2nd, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. at Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, 384 Fox Chapel Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15238
- Sunday, March 3rd, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. at Ingomar Church, 1501 W Ingomar Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237
General Admission is $25, Students with ID are $10, and children 12 and under are free. For tickets visit: https://www.pccsing.org/tickets-new
Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra presents Enchanted Dances on Sunday, March 3rd
The concert will showcase a diverse selection of dance pieces, ranging from the stylized waltzes of Richard Strauss‘s Suite from Der Rosenkavalier to Alexander Borodin‘s colorful Polovtsian Dances No. 17 from his opera Prince Igor, as well as the vibrant rhythms of Huapango by José Pablo Moncayo.
Leading the orchestra in Antonín Dvořák‘s lively Slavonic Dances Op. 46, No. 1 will be Kate Nayeon Jeon, winner of PYSO’s 2023-24 Conducting Competition. The concert will also feature PYSO harpist Sophia Jho, winner of PYSO’s 2023-24 Concerto Competition, with a performance of Maurice Ravel‘s enchanting Introduction and Allegro.
TICKETS AND DETAILS
The concert at Heinz Hall at 7 pm on March 3, 2024, is free, but a ticket is required. To download tickets, please visit: https://pyso.org/tickets
Unable to attend? PYSO’s concert will also be broadcast and streamed LIVE from Heinz Hall on 89.3 WQED-FM
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So excited for Chichester Psalms this weekend!