{"id":305196,"date":"2026-10-12T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305196\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:56:10","slug":"pittsburgh-symphony-orchestra-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-star-wars-with-live-to-film-concert-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305196\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra celebrates 50th Anniversary of Star Wars with live-to-film concert \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will perform the score of \u201cStar Wars: A New Hope\u201d live alongside a screening of the movie at PPG Paints Arena on May 25, 2027. Led by Associate Conductor Jacob Joyce, the concert marks 50 years to the day since the original film premiered in theaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The concert is part of UPMC Movies with the PSO, the orchestra\u2019s film-with-live-orchestra series, which adopted the name following a title sponsorship with UPMC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The performance replaces a concert previously scheduled at Heinz Hall. Ticket holders for the original Heinz Hall date will receive priority seating at PPG Paints Arena and can contact the Heinz Hall ticket office at 412-392-4900 to receive new tickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Melia Tourangeau, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, noted that the move to the arena allows for a larger audience. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no score more iconic than Star Wars and no better way to mark its 50th anniversary than hearing it performed live by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,\u201d Tourangeau said. \u201cBringing the orchestra to PPG Paints Arena lets us share this music with more fans than ever, in a production designed to be as epic as the film itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The arena production will utilize a four-sided videoboard featuring four 50-foot-by-32-foot screens with more than 32 million pixels, two 360-degree LED rings, dynamic lighting and special effects. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The orchestra will perform positioned beneath the main videoboard facing Section 112, with audio broadcast through the venue\u2019s sound system. The arena will also host special activations prior to the show and during intermission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Tickets start at $45 and will go on sale to the public on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 10 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will perform the score of \u201cStar Wars: A New Hope\u201d live alongside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13447,4738,92329,4591,8566,29379,14273,7019,6033,92330,1681,15263,34053,7683,28817,7865,17641,24258,18047,92331,523,1132,73,75,74,7171,11991,41223,15268,38825,20732,92332,76198,74282,65871,15658],"class_list":["post-305196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-artist","tag-background","tag-bow","tag-brown","tag-classic","tag-classical","tag-closeup","tag-concert","tag-culture","tag-elegance","tag-entertainment","tag-female","tag-finger","tag-hand","tag-instrument","tag-music","tag-musical","tag-musician","tag-orchestra","tag-orchestral","tag-people","tag-performance","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-play","tag-player","tag-playing","tag-professional","tag-sound","tag-string","tag-symphony","tag-viola","tag-violin","tag-violinist","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}