Saturday Evening

Hello everyone,

On Saturday evening, attendees will be on their own to explore the culinary and entertainment options that Pittsburgh has to offer.  The organizers do, however, have two humble suggestions for musical lovers amongst us.  

The first is the Pittsburgh Symphony.  Heinz Hall is in easy distance to the hotel via foot or the hotel shuttle. The concert that Saturday night will feature the following:

Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio, Opus 72   

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 467    

DvoÅ™ák: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88

Some of our organizers are subscribers to the symphony and can procure discounted tickets.  If enough people are interested, we could also get a group rate.   Standard tickets range from $25 to $100 depending on seating choices.

Another suggestion is the Renaissance & Baroque society's  hosting of Stile Antico , an early music vocal group from the U.K.   The description is :

The current popularity of English Renaissance choral music owes much to the groundbreaking work of the Carnegie Trust, which celebrates its centenary in 2013. In 1922, the Trust inaugurated the Tudor Church Music edition – a series of hugely influential volumes, unearthing a wealth of extraordinary music that had languished unperformed for centuries. Stile Antico celebrates this remarkable legacy with a program entirely drawn from these publications, including masterpieces by Taverner, Tallis, Gibbons and White. Crowning the program is the exquisite five-part Mass by William Byrd, whose modern reputation as the greatest composer of the English Renaissance was founded on these pioneering editions.

This location will be a touch more difficult to get to, but should be feasible with car pooling or cabs. If we have 8 or more people interested, we will qualify for group rates, the top tickets are $35.

Please let us know via an email to ddconfluence (at) gmail.com if you have an interest in either of these events.  If there is enough demand, the organizers will work on coordinating tickets for our group.

Take Care,
Marta