Violinist Itzhak Perlman featured in the PSO’s “Cinema Serenade” on the “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Violinist Itzhak Perlman joins the Orchestra for “Cinema Serenade” featuring the “Love Theme from ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’” and the “Theme from ‘Schindler’s List’”. Also on the program famous classical works often associated with the cinema, like the “Light Cavalry Overture”.

Wednesday July 13: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) (15-16_03)

Cinema Serenade

Manfred Honeck, conductor; *Itzhak Perlman, violin (not certain which other selections he plays on)

Alfred Newman (1900-1970): 20th Century Fox Fanfare

Von Suppe: Overture to “Light Cavalry”.   

Offenbach: Selections from “Gaite Parisienne”

Wagner: ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ from “Die Walkure”:

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.   

Brahms: Hungariani Dance No. 5

Herman Hupfeld (1894-1951): ‘As Time Goes By’ from “Casablanca”

Morricone (b. 1928): ‘Love Theme’ from “Cinema Paradiso”

John Barry (1933-2011): Main Title from “Out of Africa”

John Williams (b. 1932): Theme from “Far and Away”

*Korngold: Marian and Robin Love Theme from “The Adventures of Robin Hood”

*John Williams (b. 1937?): Theme from “Schindler’s List”

Carlos Gardel (1890-1935): Tango “Por Una Cabeza” from “Scent of a Woman”

[PSO fill: Andre Previn (b. 19what): Theme from “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”; PSO/Previn; Korngold: Selections from Violin Concerto; Itzhak Perlman, violin; PSO/Previn]