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2020-21 Season Update | 2021-22 Season| 2021-22 Season Add-Ons| 2019-20 Season Archive
2020-21 Season Update
Due to COVID-19 safety and health precautions for both our audience and our musicians, we are moving the publicized 2020-2021 season programming to our 2021-2022 season. We are continuing to explore performance possibilities for the coming year — stay tuned!
At this time, we value your patience as we work to establish policies and procedures that will work best for current subscribers and single ticket patrons who have already purchased tickets. If you are a subscriber or single tickets patron, please make sure we have your most recent email address on account. We will have more to announce soon.
2021-22 Season
Experience the power of extraordinary symphonic works and your PGSymphony as they come together for a daring 2020-2021 Season. Prepare for more internationally-recognized guest artists, familiar favorites such as Berlioz’s celebrated Symphonie Fantastique, and two solo piano recitals that are certain to be “rockstar” experiences.
Verdi | Creston | Berlioz
Verdi | Vespri Siciliani Overture
Creston | Concertino for Marimba
DEAN ANDERSON, MARIMBA
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique
Holiday Pops!
Your season favorites featuring:
EMILY YOCUM BLACK, SOPRANO
Beethoven | Tchaikovsky | Farrenc
Beethoven | Coriolan Overture
Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No. 1
ROMAN RABINOVICH, PIANO
Farrenc | Symphony No. 3
Berlioz | Brahms
Berlioz | Harold in Italy
BRETT DOUGLAS DEUBNER, VIOLA
Brahms | Symphony No. 1
Strauss | Sarasate | Massenet | Shostakovich
Strauss | Till Eulenspiegel
Sarasate | Carmen Fantasy, op. 25
CHIN KIM, VIOLIN
Massenet | Meditation from “Thais”
CHIN KIM, VIOLIN
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5
“Get Happy!” Joan Ellison Sings Judy Garland
JOAN ELLISON, SOPRANO
“Get Happy!” Joan Ellison Sings Judy Garland will take you on a nostalgic trip from technicolor Hollywood to the swinging ‘60s as we perform Judy’s original arrangements for hits like Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart, The Trolley Song, Over the Rainbow, among others.
2020-2021 Season Add-Ons – Piano Recitals
Thomas Pandolfi, Solo Piano
House favorite Thomas Pandolfi returns for a solo piano recital featuring works by Leonard Bernstein, Chopin, and a twist on Gershwin’s most beloved songs including Rhapsody in Blue.
Stewart Goodyear, Solo Piano
Beethoven was a pianist of legendary virtuosity. Experience three of his most famous piano sonatas —Pathetique, Moonlight, and Appassionata— performed by Stewart Goodyear, “one of the best pianists of his generation” as claimed by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
2019-2020 Season Archive
November 10, 2019
Strauss | Don Juan
Koussevitzky | Double Bass Concerto
Leonid Finkelshteyn, Double Bass
Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
December 15, 2019
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | The First Noel | Carol of the Bells
We Three Kings | Symph-Hanukkah | The Twelve Gifts Christmas
Christmas at the Movies | Another Night Before Christmas
Stille Nacht | Ave Maria | Mad Russian’s Christmas
Fantasia on We Three Kings | Sleigh Ride
Jacob Waid, vocalist
January 12, 2020
Dvořák | Carnival Overture
Mendelssohn | Violin Concerto in E minor
David Kim, Violin
Beach | Symphony No.2, “Gaelic”
January 26, 2020
Mendelssohn | The Hebrides
Mozart | Piano Concerto No.21 in C Major
William Wolfram, Piano
Tchaikovsky | Symphony No.5
February 9, 2020
Mozart | Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Castelnuovo-Tedesco | Guitar Concerto No. 1
Celil Refik Kaya, Guitar
Beethoven | Symphony No. 6, “Pastorale”
March 8, 2020
Dvořák | Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Fuchs | Piano Concerto, “Spiritualist”
Jeffrey Biegel, Piano
Shostakovich | Festive Overture
