Pittsburgh Philharmonic presents "A Pilgrim's Progress"

The Pittsburgh Philharmonic continues its season with "A Pilgrim’s Progress", exploring journeys of aspiration, struggle, and redemption. The program opens with a bold new work by Jake Pieszak, winner of the orchestra’s Young Composer Contest. Cellist Albert Dong then performs the passionate drama and virtuosic lyricism of Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor. It culminates in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s radiant Symphony No. 5 in D major. Composed during World War II and drawing on his opera based on Bunyan’s "The Pilgrim’s Progress" the symphony features modal melodies and hymn-like allusions.