@ the Symphony

Dec 05 2024 153 ep. 17 mins 14
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Insights and anecdotes from musicians, dancers, artists, actors and directors, as well as audience response.

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Manfred Honeck

Dec 05 2024 29 mins  
Jim Cunningham sat down with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Music Director Manfred Honeck to talk about this weekend's concerts. The program includes Reena Esmail's "REImember;" Faure's "Cantique de Jean Racine", arranged by Manfred Honeck; Brahms' "Schicksalslied;" Hailstork's "Lacrimosa" and Faure's "Requiem." The concert features the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and soloists J

PSO Live - Post Concert Interviews - 11/15/24

Nov 15 2024 10 mins  
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Classical Music Critic Jeremy Reynolds stopped by the WQED-FM location after the live broadcast of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on November 15, 2024. He gave a glowing review of the orchestra, Lorna McGhee and conductor Jacob Joyce. PSO President and CEO Melia Tourangeau also stopped by to speak with Jim Cunningham about the concert; the orchestra tryin

PSO Live - Intermission Interviews - 11/15/24

Nov 15 2024 17 mins  
During intermission of WQED-FM's live broadcast of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Jim Cunningham spoke with the soloist in the Rautavaara Flute Concerto - PSO Principal Flute Lorna McGhee; PSO Associate Conductor Jacob Joyce, who found out he was going to be conducting the concert just a few hours before showtime; and PSO VP of Artistic Planning Mary Persin about some of the ex

PSO Live - Pre Concert Interviews - 11/15/24

Nov 15 2024 9 mins  
WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham spoke with WQED President and CEO Jason Jedlinski and former WQED Board Chair Dr. Millie Myers prior the November 15th, 2024 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert. They spoke about what they were looking forward to in tonight's concert, as well as upcoming initiatives at WQED.

Symphony Splendor 2024

Nov 15 2024 20 mins  
The Pittsburgh Symphony Association volunteers have tirelessly raised well over a million dollars to keep the music playing. The effort continues with Christmas On Broadway at the Holiday House Tour in Shadyside November 22-24 and November 29- December 1. Over thirty musicians from the area including Pittsburgh Symphony members, Mendelssohn Choir singers and many others will add to

Public Radio Music Day with the Pittsburgh Symphony

Oct 31 2024 15 mins  
Members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra joined WQED-FM live on Public Radio Music Day (October 23, 2024), to play three pieces from Stravinsky's Tale of the Soldier (Histoire du soldat). They played The Soldier's March, Airs by the Stream, the Little Concert. Anna Singer talked with Douglas Rosenthal, David Sogg, and Jeremy Branson about the piece and the group. Members of t

Christoph Eschenbach

Oct 30 2024 17 mins  
Pianist and Conductor Christoph Eschenbach returns to Pittsburgh after many years as Music Director of the Philadelphia, Houston and National Symphony orchestras. He talks about his program of Schumann’s Second Symphony, and the Brahms Violin Concerto with Ray Chen. He remembers his first Pittsburgh concert in 1972 with William Steinberg and hundreds of other concerts he played a

Pittsburgh Symphony Live - 9/27/24 - Postconcert Interviews

Sep 27 2024 8 mins  
WQED-FM broadcast the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert live on Friday September 27, 2024. Jim Cunningham spoke with WQED-FM's Anna Singer, PSO Principal Cellist Anne Martindale Williams and Post-Gazette Classical Music Critic Jeremy Reynolds after the concert.

Pittsburgh Symphony Live - 9/27/24 - Intermission Interviews

Sep 27 2024 9 mins  
WQED-FM broadcast the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert live on Friday September 27, 2024. Jim Cunningham spoke with PSO Music Director Manfred Honeck and guest soloist - violinist Augustin Hadelich backstage during intermission.

Pittsburgh Symphony Live - 9/27/24 - Preconcert Interviews

Sep 27 2024 7 mins  
WQED-FM broadcast the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert live on Friday September 27, 2024. Jim Cunningham spoke with WQED President and CEO Jason Jedlinski, WQED Board Chair Emeritus Millie Myers, and PSO Contrabassoon James Rodgers backstage prior to the concert.