Although based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Mermaid is also an autobiographical attempt to heal the composer’s pain of losing his beloved Alma to fellow composer Gustav Mahler. Grammy Award-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman returns to Heinz Hall in a performance of Beethoven’s energetic Piano Concerto No. 3.
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Explore & Engage
Themes and programs that give you a deeper, more meaningful and more personally relevant connection to the music!
Come an hour early for this weekend's Concert Prelude with PSO Assistant Conductor Thomas Hong and Zemlinsky scholar Marc Moskovitz. As part of our Beethoven Project, sample audio clips simulating stages of Beethoven’s hearing loss at the listening stations provided by the UPMC Center for Audiology and Hearing Aids at the Grand Tier level in the lobby. Display boards explore Beethoven the man as seen by his contemporaries and later generations, as well as Zemlinsky and his circle in Vienna at the turn of the century.
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