The final performance of the final season of “Spring for Music,†an orchestra festival at Carnegie Hall, will have a fittingly morbid theme, according to programming announced on Tuesday. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, on May 10, 2014, will present the last scene of Poulenc’s opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites,†when a group of nuns are serially guillotined; the first New York performance of James MacMillan’s “Woman of the Apocalypse,†based on the Book of Revelation; and a mélange of Mozart music â€" titled “Requiem and Death in Words and Music†â€" centered around his completed sections of the “Requiem.†Pittsburgh’s music director, Manfred Honeck, will conduct.
The concert will end a week of performances in the festival’s fourth and last season. Six North American orchestrs were chosen each year for innovative programs, with tickets costing $25. The other orchestras in 2014 are the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Winnipeg Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony.
