Beo String Quartet • Thursday, June 18 • 7:30PM Experience a relaxed chamber music performance in historic Unity Chapel Sean Neukom and Jason Neukom talking with the audience at Unity Chapel Ready to make your Thursday nights a little more inspiring? The Summer Chamber Music Series kicks off Thursday with Beo String Quartet. As part of America's 250th celebration, you'll hear works by American composers Samuel Barber, Kenji Bunch, Alejandro Rutty, and Sean Neukom. $20 at the door - supports the WSO Youth Orchestra Program Musicians: Jason Neukom and Andrew Giordano, violins; Sean Neukom, viola and Ryan Ash, cello LEARN MORE Why you’ll love this Concert Series: ⛪Beautiful historic venue ❄️Air-conditioned and accessible 🎼Meet fellow music lovers 🎺Supports the WSO Youth Orchestra Program Photo: Unity Chapel (built in 1874) The Summer Concert Series is underwritten by the Charles F. and Mary Esther Sawyer Music Fund of the The Latrobe Presbyterian Church ✨Celebrate America’s...
As we round out our 117th season and look toward the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh’s next chapter, I keep returning to a simple idea: a city that sings is a city that connects. I felt that idea in action while listening to the Mendelssohn Choir perform at Heinz Hall this past weekend. As the final verses of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms state, "Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity, " I felt a deep sense of connection to the audience members next to me, to the community of singers on stage, and to a whole citizenry searching for belonging. This feeling of connection is at the heart of everything we do. For more than a century, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh has brought people together to sing, listen, and discover something larger than themselves. I saw it in action at our audition workshop, I feel it every week in rehearsals, and it defines our CrosSING Bridges series. As we imagine MCP’s next chapter, we want to take th...