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Pines of Rome at Segerstrom Hall

Start Date: February 6, 2025
End Date: February 8, 2025
Start Time: 8:00 PM

Location:
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, CA

2025-02-06 2025-02-08 America/Los_Angeles Pines of Rome at Segerstrom Hall Artists Carl St.Clair, conductor Jeffrey Biegel, piano Pacific Symphony Program BERNSTEIN: Slava! HAILSTORK: Piano Concerto No. 3, The way things really are (world premiere) CUONG: World Premiere RESPIGHI: Pines of Rome Preview Talk at 7 p.m. with KUSC midday host Alan Chapman Celebrate the power of nature and new horizons in music: The dazzling razzmatazz of Bernstein’s high-spirited musical prelude sets the stage for two contemporary works that follow: a new piano concerto by esteemed African American composer Adolphus Hailstork and a new and colorful orchestral work by Pacific Symphony’s Vietnamese American Composer-in-Residence, Viet Cuong. Respighi’s tone poem paints in music the grandeur and history of the Eternal City, including a recording of an actual Italian nightingale singing a serene nocturne! Adolphus Hailstork has written the following about his new work: "My second piano concerto, written for Lara Downes, is a tranquil fantasy piece subtitled "the peaceable kingdom" based on a series of paintings of the same name. But the third concerto (commissioned by Jeffrey Biegel), subtitled "the way things really are" reflects the opposite: the meanness and cruel belligerency in the world, with two wars—which began during the composing of the piece—serving as examples. There is a slight reference to a medieval Ukrainian lullaby." Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Event Description

Artists
Carl St.Clair, conductor
Jeffrey Biegel, piano
Pacific Symphony

Program
BERNSTEIN: Slava!
HAILSTORK: Piano Concerto No. 3, The way things really are (world premiere)
CUONG: World Premiere
RESPIGHI: Pines of Rome

Preview Talk at 7 p.m. with KUSC midday host Alan Chapman

Celebrate the power of nature and new horizons in music: The dazzling razzmatazz of Bernstein’s high-spirited musical prelude sets the stage for two contemporary works that follow: a new piano concerto by esteemed African American composer Adolphus Hailstork and a new and colorful orchestral work by Pacific Symphony’s Vietnamese American Composer-in-Residence, Viet Cuong. Respighi’s tone poem paints in music the grandeur and history of the Eternal City, including a recording of an actual Italian nightingale singing a serene nocturne!

Adolphus Hailstork has written the following about his new work: "My second piano concerto, written for Lara Downes, is a tranquil fantasy piece subtitled "the peaceable kingdom" based on a series of paintings of the same name. But the third concerto (commissioned by Jeffrey Biegel), subtitled "the way things really are" reflects the opposite: the meanness and cruel belligerency in the world, with two wars—which began during the composing of the piece—serving as examples. There is a slight reference to a medieval Ukrainian lullaby."