This recital will feature music by six American composers, plus 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.
May 22, 2023
WSO Presents “Classics on the Rocks” Concert in the Barn at West Overton The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra will present “Classics on the Rocks” a unique concert and whiskey tasting experience at West Overton in Scottdale on Thursday, June 8 at 7:00 p.m. The evening concert will be held in West Overton’s historic five-story barn and features the WSO Cello Ensemble,… Read More
May 10, 2023
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra’s annual Hat Luncheon returns to the Greensburg Country Club on Saturday, June 3, 2023. Co-chairpersons Karen Kohut and Diane Nickoloff welcome guests to the champagne reception beginning at 11:00 a.m. and the luncheon at noon. The event will be held on the spacious outdoor porch area and ballrooms. In addition to gift baskets and silent auction… Read More
March 30, 2023
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents its 54th season finale Beethoven’s Mass in C on Saturday, April 22, 2023 at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The concert opens with Stravinsky’s Danses concertantes and concludes with Beethoven’s Mass in C. “Beethoven’s Mass in C is a brilliant, energetic, and touching musical document from the grand tradition established by… Read More
