Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at IUP

Name: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at IUP
Start: 2025-02-17T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Fisher Auditorium

Schedule

Mon, 17 Feb, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Fisher Auditorium | Indiana, PA

This special performance of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, sponsored by S&T Bank, will be conducted by Maestro Manfred Honeck and will feature special guest artist María Dueñas on violin. The Lively Arts will be presenting this performance in Indiana on February 17, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.
The program will feature Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Opus 95 [old No. 5] “From the New World.” Dvořák traveled to America in the 1890s, and this wild new country thrilled him. He admired the beauty of African-American spirituals and was fascinated by Native American traditions. When describing his “New World” symphony, he said, “I tried to write only in the spirit of those national American melodies,” but his Ninth is clearly an expression of both the Old World and the New. Alongside Dvořák’s familiar symphony, violin phenom María Dueñas performs Saint-Saëns’ Concerto No. 3 in B minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 61, and the program opens with a set of Four Black American Dances by Carlos Simon that also serve to highlight Dvořák’s African-American inspirations.
Sincere thanks to the Presenting Sponsor for this event, S&T Bank.