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April 28, 2023

Campana Chapel

FEMC: Season Finale

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The Friday Evening Music Club of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents “Season Finale” on Friday, April 28, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. at The Campana Chapel located at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg
The finale will highlight Roger Cazden on flute with Dr. Josie Merlino on piano for works of Bach and Rodrigo, along with flautists Nina Edgar and Hazel Braun presenting the Hindemith Flute Sonata.
Admission is free to club members and voluntary donations are accepted from non-members at the door. All are invited to a reception following the recital.

 

June 3, 2023

Greensburg Country Club

Hat Luncheon

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Join us in celebrating a fun afternoon of hats and happiness! Show off your fascinators and hats while sipping on mimosas and enjoy an elegant luncheon, prizes, a chance auction, and much more. Click here to be added to the invitation list

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June 2, 2022

West Overton Village

Concert at West Overton

Set on twenty acres of picturesque grounds and historic buildings in Scottdale, join us in West Overton’s rustic, enchanting brick barn for an evening concert conducted by Daniel Meyer. Hear Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Vaughn Williams Charterhouse Suite, Holst’s Brook Green Suite, and Weber’s Clarinet Quintet. The concert features the strings of the WSO with soloists Ryan Leonard, clarinet, and Sarah Steranka, flute, conducted by Daniel Meyer. Signature cocktails made from West Overton Distilling Companys’s renowned rye whiskey as well as beer and wine are available for purchase with valid id. 

RSVPs are free, but are required as seating is limited to 200. First come, first serve. Registration closes at 3 p.m day of the concert. No outside food/drink permitted.

 

September 16, 2022

Westmoreland Country Club

Autumn Rhapsody

It’s an autumn celebration event! Enjoy live music by EBT Jazz, fabulous food, and great company. Bid on an array of items from vacation getaways, sports tickets, and golf packages to fine jewelry and gift baskets. Proceeds benefit the programs of the WSO. Cocktail hour at 6:30 p.m. with sit-down dinner and auction to follow. Reservations are now closed, thank you for your interest! 

 

September 23, 2022

Campana Chapel

FEMC Recital: Season Opener

The Friday Evening Music Club of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra returns to Campana Chapel at the University of Pittsburgh – Greensburg Campus on Friday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m.

Members Christina Andrae, flute and Sylvia Andrae, piano, will present a delightful five-movement work by Academy Award-winning Italian composer, Nino Rota. New member, oboist Louise Daniels, will perform Seven Bagatelles for Solo Oboe by prolific English composer Gordon Jacob.

Showcasing the flute family from piccolo to bass in Victor Herbert’s Italian Street SongFlute Cocktail, will also present a wonderful arrangement of Three Slavonic Dances from Dvorak’s Op. 46 & 72, with pianist Ruth Poscich. Comprised of present and former FEMC members and friends, the flute choir includes Ms. Andrae, Grace Collier, Julia Gray, Chuck Kauric, Joan Kotjarapoglus, Leslie Nemeth, Linda Urbani and Theresa Vanden Berk, conducted by Michele Boulet. 

Admission is free to club members and voluntary donations are accepted from non-members at the door. Pitt-Greensburg does not currently require masks indoors, though this is subject to change as case levels may change in the county; FEMC is mask-friendly to all who chose to wear one. All are invited to a reception following the recital.

 

November 18, 2022

First United Methodist Church

FEMC Recital: American Music Month

This recital will feature music by six American composers, including a movement from Antonín Dvorák’s American String Quartet, which was written while the Bohemian composer was vacationing in Spillville, Iowa. Performing the Dvorák is the Barclay String Quartet, which includes violinists Natalie Kasievich and Lauren Rigby, violist Jason Xia and cellist Jeffrey Borrebach.

Pianist Beverly Hritz will play “A Hermit Thrush at Morn” Op. 92, No. 2 by Amy Beach.

Savannah Simeone, mezzo-soprano, will sing three songs, each by a different American composer: “I felt a funeral in my brain” by Aaron Copland, using the poetry of Emily Dickinson; “The Black Swan” from The Medium, by Gian Carlo Menotti, and Judith Cloud’s “Alone” with poetry by Edgar Allan Poe. Baritone Marc Tourre will sing “Early in the Morning” by Ned Rorem and “Come Ready and See Me” by Richard Hundley. Collaborating with both will be pianist Sylvia Andrae.

Admission is free to club members and voluntary donations are accepted from non-members at the door.  All are invited to a reception following the recital.

 

November 20, 2022

Seton Hill Performing Arts Center

WYSO Fall Concert

The concert is free and open to the public, donations are accepted

The WYSO Philharmoniacomprised of mostly middle school musicians, will open the program with the first movement of Respighi’s Ancient Aires and Dances followed by Rimsky-Korsakov’s Themes from Scheherazade, the fourth movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 in C and concludes with Offenbach’s Can-Can from Orpheus in the UnderworldMorrie Brand, WYSO Music Director, will conduct.

The WYSO Philharmonic, comprised of mostly high school students, opens with Mozart’s Overture from The Abduction from the Seraglio, followed by the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D major and the third movement of Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 in D major, and closes with Saint-Saëns’ Bacchanal from Samson and Delilah. Conducting the Philharmonic is the recently appointed Adam Gillespie.

 

January 27, 2023

Campana Chapel

FEMC Recital: Student Recital

The Friday Evening Music Club of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce our annual student recital, to be held will be held on Friday, January 27 at 7:30p.m. at the Campana Chapel and Lecture Hall on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg (UPG). The recital will feature students of the following FEMC members: Michele Boulet, John V. Kulik and Dan Parasky.

We are very excited to be presenting our first live student recital held at Campana Chapel since January, 2020, just before live concerts shut down. This is also our first student event since coming under the umbrella of the Westmoreland Symphony!

Pianists performing include Mark Matthews (Burgmuller/Bastien), Johan Paul (Mozart/Faber), Bilgehan Akdeniz (Bach/Faber), Levi Pecorari (Haydn/Snell), James Georgescu (Latour/Faber), and Praneel Varshney (Gershwin/Chopin), all students of Mr. Kulik.

Flute students of Mr. Parasky, including Elsa Bandli (Coleman), Nia Hanington (Beeftink), and Anna Qin (Chaminade), will be accompanied by Matt Klumpp. Flutist Emma Jones, (Mendelssohn) studies with her duet partner, Ms. Boulet. Composers represented are listed in parentheses.

Admission is free to club members and voluntary donations are accepted from non-members at the door. All are invited to a reception following the recital.

 

February 12, 2023

Seton Hill Performing Arts Center

Young Artists Competition Winners Recital

The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra announces that the 2023 Young Artists Competition Winners’ recital will be held at the Seton Hill University Performing Arts Center on Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 2:30 p.m. The recital is free and open to the public.

On Sunday, February 5th, the finalists competed for cash prizes and a chance to perform on the Winners’ Recital. The recital will feature:

Level I – up to Grade 9

Instrumental

1st place – AJ Schmidt, flute (Franklin Regional HS freshman; teacher – Dan Parasky)

2nd place – Nia Hanington, flute (Franklin Regional HS freshman; teacher – Dan Parasky)

3rd place – Elsa Bandli, flute (Franklin Regional MS 8th grader; teacher – Dan Parasky)

Honorable Mention – Nolan Schnauber, violin (Greensburg Central Catholic JH 7th grader;

teacher – Aaron Blackham)

 

Piano

1st place – William Duvall (PA Cyber Charter School freshman; teacher – René Seamone)

Honorable Mention – Levi Pecorari (homeschooled 5th grader; teacher – John Kulik)

 

Level II – Grades 10-12

Instrumental-

1st place – Anna Qin, flute (Franklin Regional HS sophomore, teacher – Dan Parasky)

Tie for 2nd place – Madison Kraynick, clarinet (Greater Latrobe SH senior;
teacher – Lisa Thackrah

Tie for 2nd place – Regina Zezza, trumpet (Greater Latrobe SH sophomore; teacher – Ryan Rick)

These performers will present a recital of pieces chosen by the judges from their audition programs. Finals judges were Kathleen Campbell, Adam Gillespie and Brian Gilling.

 

March 24, 2023

Campana Chapel

FEMC Recital: Spring Breaks

The Friday Evening Music Club of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce our March recital, to be held will be held this Friday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Campana Chapel and Lecture Hall on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg (UPG).

Among the performers on Friday (we may have a surprise pianist joining the line-up!) are Club members, Dr. TJ Maroon, piano, and Louise Daniels, oboe. Dr. Maroon will be honoring Ukraine by performing two piano pieces by Ukraine’s best-known living composer, Valentin Silvestrov, who is now a refugee living in Germany. He will play the 2nd movement of Kitsch-Music (1977), and Three Bagatelles, Op.1 (2005). Ms. Daniels, who directs and performs with the Seton Hill University double reed quartet, will feature the group in movements from Quartet in F Major, FaWV N:F1, for two oboes and two bassoons by Johann Friedrich Fasch, a composer who crossed paths with J.S. Bach and other well-known baroque composers from the Leipzig area. SHU students in the group are oboist Alma Podoletz, and bassoonists Madilyn Perleberg and Angelina Brennsteiner. Pianist, Austin An, a student of member Edward M. Kuhn, Jr., will perform the music of two very different time periods on Friday evening. Nikolai Kapustin, a Soviet composer of Russian-Jewish descent, was born in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, in the same year as Silvestrov.  Prelude, Op. 53, No. 23 in Jazz Style, represents the composer’s favorite genre of music.  Austin will then turn back time to the classical period, and play the 1st movement of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 17, nicknamed “The Tempest.”

Admission is free to club members and voluntary donations are accepted from non-members at the door.  All are invited to a reception following the recital.

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