“Orchestras around the country are promising to connect more with local communities to increase their cultural value. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is delivering on that promise,” writes Jeremy Reynolds ion Monday’s (2/10) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “In announcing its 125th season Monday evening, PSO leaders detailed new partnerships with numerous local organizations [including] Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh … Pittsburgh Public Theater and the Allegheny County Library Association. The new collaborative programs will send symphony musicians out to perform in community spaces and bring more local performers into Heinz Hall.… In October, [Music Director Manfred] Honeck will lead the orchestra in Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring,’ as Pittsburgh Ballet Theater performs choreography by … Glenn Tetley.” Featured contemporary composers in the 2020-21 season will include Mason Bates, Kathryn Bostic, Michael Daugherty, Stacy Garrop, James MacMillan, and Gloria Isabel Ramos Triano…. The Pittsburgh Symphony will perform music by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, his Violin Concerto in D Major…. The PNC Pops series will welcome new principal pops conductor Byron Stripling in October…. Yo-Yo Ma, who visited … for a community tour in 2018, will return for a three-day residency that includes a lecture, community activities and a concert.”
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