The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs Holst’s “The Planets”

Thursday January 7: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 20-21_01) (New Season)

Honeck conducts Holst

Manfred Honeck, conductor; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Betsy Burleigh, director

HOLST: The Planets

Patrick BURKE/Bomi JANG/Mathew ROSENBLUM/Reza VALI/Amy WILLIAMS: “The Elements” (World Premiere) (A collaboration of 5 different Pittsburgh composers.)

[PSO fill: Tom LEHRER: The Elements; J. S. BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2; Andres Cardenes, violin/conductor; Igor Kipnis, harpsichord; George Vosburgh, trumpet; John WILLIAMS: Excerpt from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind;” John Williams, conductor]