The Magic of Paris

Artists

Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Program

Ottorino Respighi:	La Boutique fantasque
Claude Debussy:	Ibéria
Manuel de Falla:	Three-Cornered Hat Suites Nos. 1 & 2

About This Performance

The magic of Paris is alive at Heinz Hall! Gianandrea Noseda opens the Paris Festival with works from composers who were part of the Parisian music revolution in the early 20th century. Read more about the Paris Festival

Concert Commentaries

Explore & Engage

CONCERT PRELUDE:  A Window into the City of Light with Jim Cunningham
6:45 pm (Friday & Saturday) and 1:15 pm (Sunday), on stage
WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham surveys the artistic life of Paris, La Ville-Lumière in the early decades of the twentieth century and discusses the role of the city in galvanizing one of the greatest artistic revolutions of all time.

CINEMATHEQUE: Paris the Luminous Years: Toward the Making of the Modern (excerpts)
Written, directed and produced by Perry Miller Adato, PBS Special, 2010
6:45 pm (Fridays and Saturdays) and 1:15 pm (Sundays), Dorothy Porter Simmons Regency Rooms

In the early decades of the twentieth century, a storm of modernism swept through the art worlds of the West, uprooting centuries of tradition in the visual arts, music, literature, dance, theater and beyond. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France.

Paris The Luminous Years explores this unique moment in Paris from 1905 to 1930, decisive years for our contemporary culture, when an international group including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Vaslav Nijinsky and Aaron Copland, among numerous others, revolutionized the direction of the modern arts.

POST-CONCERT: L'Amour, La Vie: Daphne Sings Piaf
Grand Lobby
Daphne Alderson celebrates the life and times of Edith Piaf, one of the most mercurial artists of all time. Experience the poignant, passionate chansons in their original versions as toured by Piaf and her contemporaries following the PSO concert in the Grand Lobby.

*Doors open one hour and thirty minutes before all Paris Festival performances at Heinz Hall.
*All pre- and post-concert events are free to ticketholders.

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This concert is part of these Subscription Series:

• Friday Bravura
• Friday Ovation
• Friday Premiere
• Saturday Bravura
• Saturday Ovation
• Sunday Bravura
• Sunday Ovation
• Sunday Premiere

Venue Details

Heinz Hall
600 Penn Ave | Pittsburgh, PA | 15222 | Directions

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