PICT Interim Producing Artistic Director Alan Stanford talk about Nancy Harris' "The Kreutzer Sonata," based on Tolstoy novella about love, loss, and betrayal, inspired by and featuring Beethoven's sonata for violin and piano. Stanford and Giles also look ahead to the rest of the 2013 Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre season.

River City Brass General Director and conductor James Gourlay talks about his souvenir of the band's visit to Rome this week -- a brand new tuba. Gourlay is better known outside Pittsburgh as one of Europe's top tuba players. He tells QED's Ted Sohier about the final concert of this tour, and a coaching session for a local band that wants to hear and learn from these Pittsburgh players.

Ted Sohier reports after the final concert of the tour to a standing-room only audience. Earlier in the day, General Director James Gourlay coached young Italian band students, much as he does on tours in the USA.

Ted Sohier reflects on the visit to Rome, as the River City Brass heads for the final stop on its tour of Italy. He describes the daring way motorcycle and scooter riders weave through traffic, and lets us listen to a guest vocalist who sat in with the band from Pittsburgh. Some River City Brass players returned the favor by sitting in with her student band.

Ted Sohier reports on the morning after Pittsburgh's River City Brass inaugurated a new auditorium in a former slaughterhouse. Band members got a brief opportunity for sightseeing before boarding the bus to their Thursday night concert venue. Band member Sam Bucigrossi recounts his visit earlier this week to his family's ancestral home, an area that has a number of familiar Italian surnames to Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

WQED's Ted Sohier reports live after the River City Brass inaugurates a new auditorium at one of Rome's three public Universities as part of the band's first tour in Europe. Ted meets a Pittsburgher in Rome, Chuck Bogosta, President of UPMC's International and Commercial Services division.

WQED-FM's Ted Sohier and the band have arrived in Rome for a concert in a new auditorium. Ted recorded last night's concert in Teramo, Italy and shares some hightlights.

WQED's Ted Sohier reports live during the River City Brass's first performance in Italy. You'll hear director James Gourlay's introduction in Italian to Gershwin's Strike Up the Band, and other concert excerpts. Ted gauges the audience reaction to what turned out to be the closing event of a concert series featuring some big names in classical music. Ted also anticipates Wednesday's concert in Rome to inaugurate a new auditorium at one of Rome's three public Universities.

Ted Sohier reports on the town of Teramo, Italy, where the band plays its first tour concert. Band member Drew Fennell talks about his colleagues' activities, and about the distinctive sights and smells of this old town between mountains and the Mediterranean.

WQED-FM's Ted Sohier talks with band members about what the band hopes to achieve on its tour of Italy, and talks about some of the venues where the band will perform.