SHARPSVILLE — The borough’s 150th anniversary won’t be until next year, but local officials are planning a year’s worth of events leading up to the occasion — and hope to
SHARPSVILLE — The borough’s 150th anniversary won’t be until next year, but local officials are planning a year’s worth of events leading up to the occasion — and hope to
New Philharmonic begins its 2022-23 concert season Sept. 24-25 with acclaimed Filipino American pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion joining the orchestra to perform Tchaikovsky s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor.
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A piano soloist with the bona fides of Daniil Trifonov and a conductor with the stature of Vasily Petrenko figured to make Sunday’s Festival Orchestra program one of the high points of the Aspen Music Festival season. It was. They cut through a rainstorm that persisted through the entire concert to deliver an incendiary performance of Skryabin’s lurid Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor.
The rain started to fall on the Benedict Music Tent just as Petrenko gave the downbeat for the opener, composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s spicy 10-minute tone poem, Concertino Cosqueño. Although the skies did not clear until the concert ended an hour and a half later, the drumbeat on the tent mostly stayed in the background, allowing details of the music to reach an enthusiastic audience.