Anna Clyne “Color Field”
Michael Torke “Green”
Modest Mussorgsky “Pictures at an Exhibition” (Orch. Ravel)

The PSO’s winter concert features a color-filled program that will take audiences on a musical walk through galleries of sound and color, where paintings come to life, hues are translated into music, and each piece offers a distinct visual and emotional landscape. Clyne’s melodic and hazy “Color Field” draws inspiration from the Color Field painting movement—particularly Mark Rothko’s 1961 work Orange, Red, Yellow—as well as the concept of synesthesia. Synesthesia also inspired the titles of five orchestral “color” works by Michael Torke in the mid-to-late 1980s, from which the PSO will perform “Green,” a shimmering, propulsive work full of rhythmic drive and radiant, celebratory energy. The concert concludes with Mussorgsky’s iconic “Pictures at an Exhibition,” a vivid suite that turns a walk through an art gallery into a sweeping musical journey.