Music of the Heartland
Enjoy this program of music that defines our country.
A program of “program music’ from the Pittsburgh Symphony on the “Evening” Concert”
Program music is defined as music that (usually) has a title given by the composer, written to conjure , for example, an event "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" or place "El Salon meixco", to tell a story, like "Also Sprach Zarathustra" or some other "extra-musical" purpose.
Porgy and Bess
Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra playing selections from this opera from George Gershwin.
Music of the Heartland
Enjoy this program of music that defines our country.
Inon Barnatan plays Copland’s “Piano Concerto” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
There's more of Copland's music on the program: the "Orchestral Variations" and "Inscape" as well as Schumann's "2nd Symphony"