|
It’s a new year for the Pittsburgh region—a 250th anniversary year—and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA), an affiliate of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, will be playing, literally, to the Pittsburgh region’s assets when the PSO embarks on its Pittsburgh 250 Ambassador Tour to Europe, January 21 – February 5. Through music, the PSO will create impressions—for international business decision makers and potential visitors alike—about Pittsburgh as a destination of choice for business expansion, relocation and tourism.
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will kick off the Pittsburgh 250 Ambassador Tour on January 21 in Pamplona, Spain. Other stops in Frühbeck’s native country include Vitoria-Gaztiez, Castellon, Barcelona, Valenciaand San Lorenzo de El Escorial. These six concerts feature music from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger. Each concert concludes with Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.
From Spain, the Orchestra will travel to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With the new country comes a new conductor and program. The PSO’s Endowed Guest Conductor Chair Marek Janowski will lead the Orchestra in programs featuring Brahms and Beethoven.
|
|
The Pittsburgh Symphony will then travel to Germany, a country rich in PSO history. The first stop is Cologne, birthplace of the PSO’s beloved former Music Director William Steinberg. Janowski then will make his conducting debut at the 105-year-old Stadthalle in Wuppertal, the town where he grew up. Janowski will finish the Orchestra’s stay in Germany with a concert in Hanover.
Vienna, Austria is next with a performance at the Konzerthaus. Budapest, Hungary follows with the Pittsburgh 250 Ambassador Tour concluding in Pittsburgh’s sister city, Zagreb, Croatia.
|
