In Saturday’s (4/19) Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Mark Kanny writes about the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s two-week Mozart Festival, beginning April 25. “ ‘Mozart is an endless story,’ Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Music Director Manfred Honeck is happy to say. ‘Every day when spring comes, I am surprised that I didn’t enjoy the colors as much before.… It’s the same with Mozart, the more I enjoy the secrets of his music-making.’ ” Included on one festival program is “Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor with an improvisation in Mozart’s style by soloist Robert Levin, and Symphony No. 41 in C major…. Levin and symphony musicians will give a concert of Mozart’s chamber music April 29, featuring … the G minor Piano Quartet and Clarinet Quintet. The event is a co-presentation with Chamber Music Pittsburgh, the new name of the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society.” Also featured will be a new version of the Horn Concerto No. 1 featuring Principal Horn William Caballero. “Levin will also play an improvisation based on a theme submitted by the audience…. ‘I have fun speaking in this man’s language,’ Levin says. ‘The fact is, music is a language of communication and, to my mind, ideally, a musical performance is an act of storytelling.’ ”
Posted April 21, 2014
