Carnegie Mellon School of Music
The country’s premiere music conservatory on a university campus, Carnegie Mellon School of Music presents more than a hundred ensemble, faculty, and student recitals a year.
Chatham Baroque
Chatham Baroque is an nationally known trio specializing in — can you guess? — baroque music; check out their recordings, then see them in concert.
Edgewood Symphony Orchestra
One of the area’s finest community orchestras, under the leadership of Walter Morales, presents concerts in Pittsburgh (Jewish Community Center) and Edgewood (Edgewood Presbyterian Church).
Freya String Quartet
Equally at home in the concert hall to the cafe, the Freya String Quartet is committed to bringing classical music to a wide range of audiences.
NPR’s From the Top
From the Top seeks young musicians to feature on NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley radio program and national arts leadership program.
Opera Theater Pittsburgh
Opera Theater Pittsburgh reaches out across traditional lines of demarcation in the arts, presenting works which engage diverse, new, and younger audiences.
Pittsburgh Camerata
Pittsburgh Camerata is the area’s finest chamber choir, presenting a concert season of ancient and modern classical music in three different venues.
Pittsburgh Opera
Pittsburgh’s grand opera company, presenting five fully staged productions a year.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
With Music Director Manfred Honeck, the PSO is one of the world’s top orchestras, presenting a fulll season of concerts at the fabulous Heinz Hall (and other venues in the Pittsburgh area).
Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra
One of the finest youth orchestras in the country, the PYSO returned from a triumphant tour in Europe, under the direction of Lawrence Loh, Music Director.
The Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania
Following traditions established by the founders of the Steinway & Sons Piano Company, of providing a showcase for pianists and other musicians to meet and perform for the public and each other.
Three Rivers Young People’s Orchestras
More than a hundred young musicians make up TRYPO’s two orchestras — the Young Peoples Orchestra and the strings-only Symphonette.
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Pittsburgh Concert Society
Alumni Recital
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Program
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Trois Mélodies Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933)
Chanson triste
Soupir
Le manoir de Rosemonde
Danielle Pastin, soprano
Mark Carver, piano
Three Pieces for Piano Op. 42 (World Premiere) Robert Schultz (b. 1948)
1. Venture
2. En Pointe
3. Poem
Alvin Zhu, piano
Fiançailles pour rire Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
La Dame d'André
Dans l’herbe
Il vole
Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant
Violon
Fleurs
Danielle Pastin, soprano
Mark Carver, piano
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Intermission
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Try Me Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII Libby Larson (b. 1950)
Katherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
Katherine Howard
Danielle Pastin, soprano
Mark Carver, piano
12 Preludes, Op. 28 Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
1. Agitato “In feverish expectation of the beloved”
2. Lento “A sad meditation; the lonely sea beyond…”
3. Vivace “The song of the brook”
4. Largo “Beside a grave”
5. Molto allegro “The free full of songs”
6. Lento assai “Homesickness”
7. Andantino “Sweet recollections float like perfume through the memory”
8. Molto Agitato “Falling snow, howling wind, raging tempest: yet in my heavy
heart, there is a storm more terrible than this”
9. Largo “Prophetic voices”
10. Molto allegro “Falling rockets”
11. Vivace “A maiden’s wish”
12. Presto “The ride by night”
*Above descriptions by Alfred Cortot
La Valse Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Alvin Zhu, piano
You are cordially invited to meet the artists at the reception following the concert
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