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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212;Imagine a crowded subway, with &#8220;the bustle and craziness of all the characters smashing into each other and ideas bubbling together in one spot.&#8221;</p><p>If you appreciate that energetic, crossroads-of-the-world aspect of The Big Apple, pianist Orion Weiss predicts you&#8217;re sure to enjoy the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic&#8217;s season-opening concert.</p><p>Titled &#8220;Destination New York City&#8221; and set for 8 p.m. Sept. 19 at the F.M. Kirby Center on Wilkes-Barre&#8217;s Public Square, the concert will showcase music by New York composers, including George Gershwin&#8217;s Piano Concert in F.</p><p>Weiss will be guest artist for that piece, which he describes as evoking that bustling-subway image of New York &#8212; and much more.</p><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an energy here, a real vitality that we love,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But there&#8217;s a quietness and romance, too, like watching the sunset from a New York rooftop. Like any big city, New York has everything.&#8221;</p><p>When Gershwin wrote the concerto in the 1920s, Weiss said, the composer wove into it a hint of quiet romance as well as &#8220;a real New York sound, the sound of the streets.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;He synthesized all the different musical movements of the day, the different jazz dances and music that sounds like Prokofiev or Rachmaninoff,&#8221; said Weiss, who used to listen to Gershwin&#8217;s music as a child with a Sony Walkman on family car trips. &#8220;It makes me think of what New York was, a bringing together of people all over the world.&#8221;</p><p>The pianist, who has performed in venues from Hong Kong to Hawaii to Paris&#8217;s Louvre Museum, remembers his first New York residence was a Julliard dorm. Nowadays he and his wife and 2-year-old daughter live &#8220;in a quiet part of New York.&#8221;</p><p>The Philharmonic concert also will include Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s &#8220;Symphonic Dances from &#8216;West Side Story,&#8217; &#8221; Charles Griffes&#8217; &#8220;Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan,&#8221; and Michael Torke&#8217;s &#8220;Javelin.&#8221;</p><p>The orchestra&#8217;s offerings for the rest of the Masterworks season are designed to musically transport audiences to various other locations. &#8220;Departing Washington DC for the European Capitals&#8221; is planned for Nov. 14, &#8220;Land of the Midnight Sun&#8221; will feature music by Scandinavian composers on March 5 and &#8220;An Evening of Opera Overtures and Areas&#8221; will pay tribute to Italy&#8217;s famous La Scala opera house on May 6.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Orion Weiss will perform Gershwin&#8217;s Piano Concerto in F during the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic&#8217;s opening concert of the 2015-16 season. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/web1_orion-one.jpg</photo0><caption0>Orion Weiss will perform Gershwin&#8217;s Piano Concerto in F during the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic&#8217;s opening concert of the 2015-16 season. </caption0><photoCredit0>Submitted photo </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p><strong>By Mary Therese Biebel</strong></p><p>mbiebel@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><factboxMeta><p><strong>IF YOU GO</p><p><strong>What: </strong>&#8216;Destination New York City,&#8217; the opening concert of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic&#8217;s 44th season</p><p><strong>Who:</strong> Pieces by New York composers including Michael Torke, George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.</p><p><strong>Where:</strong> F.M. Kirby Center, Public Square, Wilkes-Barre.</p><p><strong>When:</strong> 8 p.m. Sept. 19</p><p><strong>Info:</strong> 570-270-4444</p></factboxMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Mary Therese Biebel at 570-991-6109 or on Twitter @BiebelMT</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic to offer music of Gershwin, Bernstein, others as ‘Destination New York’ concert opens season