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Gilda Lyons: Monarch
Schumann: Piano Concerto with soloist Kaitlin Mitchell
Dvorak: Serenade for Winds
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UPDATE: This was incorrectly published for February 17. February 18th is the correct date.
Brahms: Serenade in D and Walton's Viola Concerto with soloist Sarah Albani
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Debussy: La Mer
Last December, members of the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra premiered my short work Entremets for 14 winds and 2 percussionists. In the midst of Mendelssohn and Brahms, it was a little out of place—like some odd second cousin to the two great composers’ works.
entremets.mp3
The story of how this little piece came to be is somewhat amusing, and at the request of Philip Thompson, I’m writing it here.
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, free
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, free
Update: J.S. Bach's Canzona, BWV 588 (transcribed for brass choir by Roger Zahab)
and Charles Ives's Symphony no. 2
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
rehearsals etc. until the end - all events in Bellefield Hall Auditorium
See the details on after the jump.
dress rehearsals [all events in Bellefield Hall Auditorium]
NB. Ben Harris’s work has been rescheduled to the last concert of April 16th
Monday March 24 at 7:30 pm
in concert order:
Weber Oberon Overture
Nielsen: Violin Concerto
Mahler Symphony no. 6 mvts 2 and 3
Tuesday March 25
please note this rehearsal begins at 8:30 pm
concert order:
Weber Oberon Overture
Nielsen: Violin Concerto
Mahler Symphony no. 6 mvts 2 and 3
Wednesday, March 26
Sound check at 7:10 pm
Please note: the next week is Pitt’s spring break,no rehearsal on the 12th )
Wind Assignments: Regina Kettering and John Bistline are horn section managers and I would like the horns to consult with them to determine who should play in the works by Ben Harris, Carl Nielsen and Carl Maria von Weber – which are each scored for four horns