All-Tchaikovsky With Olga Kern

Experience music of power and passion. Music Director Andreas Delfs leads this all-Tchaikovsky celebration. The “1812 Overture” roars through Kodak Hall. Music from Swan Lake enchants. And Olga Kern brings the romantic First Piano Concerto home to Rochester, where she made her acclaimed recording of the piece in 2003. “Blazing and breathtaking,” declared SF Gate.

RPO History

Olga Kern has performed 4 times in a Philharmonics Series concert between 2002-2017.

• Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”, Ward Stare conducting November 2017
• Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Ward Stare conducting June 2016
• Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Christopher Seaman conducting November 2010
• Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1, Christopher Seaman conducting October 2002 – her RPO debut!

Your RPO has performed Tchaikovsky’s Onegin Polonaise in a Philharmonics Series concert or matinee 4 times between 1928-2005.

Your RPO has performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in a Philharmonics Series concert or matinee 17 times between 1923-2017.

• Tina Lerner played with Vladimir Shavitch conducting on December 12, 1923 (the RPO’s first full season!)

Your RPO has performed Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite in a Philharmonics Series or Sunday Matinee concert 5 times between 1931-2013.

Your RPO has performed Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture in a Philharmonics Series concert 6 times between 1924-1952 (71 years ago!).

• Vladimir Shavitch conducted on January 9, 1924 (the RPO’s first full season)

Where have I heard this?

• Tchaikovsky’s Onegin Polonaise is featured in the 2018 sci-fi thriller Tau.
• Sections of movements from Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 are used in 1990’s Misery, 2016’s The Belko Experiment and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and 2021’s Nobody and My Brother, My Sister
• Sections of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake obviously feature in 2010’s Black Swan, as well as 2000’s Bring It On, 2007’s The Game Plan, and episodes of The Crown in 2015 and 2016
• Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture plays in 1980’s Caddyshack as Bill Murray’s Carl Spackler blows up the Bushwood Country Club in an attempt to rid the course of a gopher. It also features in 2006’s V for Vendetta and 2022’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2.