Led by Guest Concertmaster Alexi Kenney, Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience continues with Part 1 of a two-part episode, Originators and Disruptors. As an homage to this year's 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Part 1 is an immersion in Beethoven, looking at his boundary-pushing early and middle periods. The music draws from his amazing wealth of string repertoire and also highlights some of his wind and brass chamber music. Next week, Part 2 will bring together the musicians with contemporary American composers and a Beethoven orchestration by Music Director Manfred Honeck in a salute to a bouquet of Pittsburgh pathbreakers who defied their times and boundaries: Rachel Carson (environmentalist and writer), Martha Graham (choreographer), Thaddeus Mosley (sculptor), Fred Rogers (television creator) and Andy Warhol (multi-media artist). Available to view through April 20, 2021.

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The virtual curtain rises to the sounds of Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, a piece written just a decade before the founding of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, a noble, generous work that exemplifies Pittsburgh and its people. This episode continues with works from composers as varied as Jessie Montgomery, Michi Wiancko/Francesco Geminiani, Ennio Morricone, and Billy Strayhorn, as the Orchestra salutes Pittsburgh through a glorious musical exploration of our dramatic geographic setting and the people drawn to it—the innovators, the immigrants, the trailblazers and the artists. In this episode, the Pittsburgh Symphony welcomes acclaimed violinist Alexi Kenney as guest Concertmaster and leader. Available to view through April 19, 2021.

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