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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra European Tour 2024
Bookmark this page for tour dispatches while on the road to go behind the scenes and join the PSO step by step during this exciting journey!
From August 22 through September 7 the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) led by Music Director Manfred Honeck will tour nine cities in Austria, Italy and Germany on its 2024 European Festivals Tour. The tour begins at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, includes two concerts at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and ends at the Vienna Konzerthaus, where the PSO will open the Konzerthaus season. The orchestra will also play concerts in Grafenegg, Merano, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Cologne, and Wiesbaden. This tour marks Manfred Honeck’s fifteenth tour with the Symphony. On August 15, before departing, the PSO will perform in Heinz Hall for its home audience to showcase how the Symphony is representing Pittsburgh in Europe.
The tour’s programs feature Mahler’s First and Fifth symphonies, Anne-Sophie Mutter performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Yefim Bronfman performing Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine, which the PSO commissioned and premiered in 1986, Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, and María Dueñas playing Bruch’s First Violin Concerto.
We touched down in Munich yesterday to find a misty, rainy city on its way to Monday morning work. On the quiet bus ride from the airport to the hotel, there was the feeling—just like the one on regular Monday mornings—that a lot was about to happen, despite the present calm. Contractually, musicians get a day off after the first travel day as a way of “stretching the legs,” so to speak, and so that jetlag doesn’t find a musician onstage, turning the rests in their part into something more literal. But not everything about the tour is still ahead... Read More
I’m writing from underneath the stage in Merano where, above me, the orchestra is thundering out the notes of Mahler Symphony No.1—a piece that’s become a standard of our repertoire, but a place in which we’re performing for the first time. From Vienna we took a long train ride to Innsbruck, where we met 4 buses and launched into the Dolomites for a 2 hour trip on mountainsides to Bolzano, where we’ve been staying for our performance in the smaller spa town of Merano. I was a little skeptical about what we’d find so far removed from the cities, but...Read More
