2013-2014 Season

“INTERSECTIONS”

MUSIC AND POETRY

 featuring FACADE 

8pm Friday, September 20, 2013
3pm Sunday, September 22, 2013
 . . . Both at Third Presbyterian Church, 5701 Fifth Avenue,
 . . . . . .at Fifth and Negley in Shadyside

Robert Page

Robert Page

 

Kate Young

Kate Young

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Page and Kate Young will be featured in this landmark work from the 1920s, a unique combination of recited poetry and chamber music.  Robert Page is one of Pittsburgh’s most distinguished musicians. He has conducted over thirty orchestras and prepared choruses for the Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh Symphonies; he received two Grammy awards for his recordings and eight additional nominations.  In May, he retired as Paul Mellon University Professor from Carnegie Mellon University. Kate Young is a noted actress and singer based in Chicago, but is hardly a stranger to Pittsburgh audiences for she has performed with the Dear Friends, the International Poetry Forum, the Public Theatre, City Theatre, and Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theater.

PROGRAM

Jacques Ibert: Trois Piéces Bréves
Gabriel Pierné: Pastorale
Robert Washburn: French Suite
William Walton: Façade Entertainment (with poetry by Edith Sitwell)

 

MUSIC AND ART

3pm Sunday, November 24, 2013
 . . . Gallery Christine Fréchard, 5871 Forbes Avenue, Squirrel Hill

8pm Saturday, November 30, 2013  *** PARLOR CONCERT
 . . . Holmes Hall, 719 Brighton Road, Allegheny West

photo by Alisa Garin

photo by Alisa Garin

Harpist Nuiko Wadden joins the Winds for a heavenly evening of music for harp and winds, including holiday selections and other pieces which paint musical pictures, surrounded by art and Victorian architecture in the two concert sites. Ms. Wadden is the principal harpist of Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet Orchestras as well as the Des Moines Metro Opera.  An active chamber music performer, she is a member of both the janus trio,
based out of Brooklyn, and the International Contemporary Ensemble.

PROGRAM

Hector Berlioz: Trio of the Young Ishmalites
André Jolivet: Pastorales de Nöel
Roland Leich: Variations on A Rose Breaks Into Bloom
John Addison: Serenade for Wind Quintet and Harp
Georges Jen Pfeiffer: Musette (1873), for reed trio
Hanukkah selections
Carol collection

 

MUSIC AND SCIENCE

8pm Saturday, May 17, 2014 parlor concert, 391 Woodland Road, Oakmont PA
8pm Sunday, May 18, 2014 at Carlow University’s Kresge Theater

Experience the thrill of discovery with this program exploring the connections between science and music, including composers who were trained as scientists and technologies that changed music, plus the mathematical marvels from the mind of Bach.

PROGRAM

Bach: Contrapunctus I and Contrapunctus VI from The Art of Fugue
Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor 
Henk Badings
Kwintet IV
Eric Barndollar: Reverie (Woodwind Quintet No. 1)