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SMETANA: Overture to The Bartered Bride
SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto 
REZA VALI: "The Girl from Shiraz" from Persian Folk Songs
   World Premiere / PSO Commission 
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY: Fifteen: Symphonic Fantasy on the Art of Andy Warhol
    World Premiere / PSO Commission
STRAVINSKY: Suite from The Firebird 

An enchanted tale that has delighted generations, Manfred Honeck conducts Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Plus, Robert Schumann’s impassioned Cello Concerto with soloist Kian Soltani. “A remarkable cellist,” says The New York Times, “with a piercingly beautiful tone.” Also, new works including Fifteen: Symphonic Fantasy on the Art of Andy Warhol by vibrant American master Michael Daugherty, as well as "The Girl from Shiraz" from Persian Folk Songs, written by Pittsburgh-based composer Reza Vali, featuring Kian Soltani.

My aim in composing my piece has been to combine the sensual, sexual, and spiritual aspects of love.
―Reza Vali, composer of The Girl from Shiraz

Worlds collide in Pittsburgh around the complicated and often fraught concept of love – the intricacies of which are weighted by cultural expectations and norms. Iranian-born, Pittsburgh-based composer, Reza Vali, explores the many facets of love through reinterpreting traditional musical storytelling. Artist Gertrude Käsebier’s intriguing portrait of Natrona, PA, native and New York chorus girl, Evelyn Nesbit, alludes to the sensuality of the sitter. Nesbit was (unfortunately) best-known for her relationships with wealthy suitors who found her beauty beguiling. Her husband, Harry K. Thaw, son of a Pittsburgh coal baron, shot New York architect, Stanford White, for past indiscretions with Nesbit. Another surprising connection…White was one of the architects for the 1907 Carnegie Museum building.

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Carnegie Museum of Art is delighted to bring you this artwork from our collection that connects to the sounds of the Pittsburgh Symphony that you will hear on the Heinz Hall stage – a partnership born from our shared 125th anniversaries in 2020.