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Drawing area performers and audience for shared artistic programs and camaraderie, and encouraging excellence in young musicians through performance and scholarship.

06/17/2025

Join the Friday Evening Music Club for their season finale in the Campana Chapel at Pitt-Greensburg.

The concert opens with two movements of the famous Sonata Op. 57 (Appassionata) by Beethoven, presented by pianist Thomas Maroon. Changing centuries and continents, we move to Argentina. We will hear guest clarinetist David Steffensen and pianist Beverly Hritz perform Milonga sin Palabras, by Astor Piazzolla, the most well-known composer of tangos.

Piano duo Josie Merlino and Matt Klumpp take us to back to Europe and will play a delightful sonata by French composer Francis Poulenc, followed by Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor, arguably one of his most famous toe-tapping tunes. The evening will close with three pianists at one piano – Michael Rozell, Beverly Hritz and Matt Klumpp, between Flag Day and the 4th of July, will give us a rousing American finale to our year of collaboration with an arrangement of Stars and Stripes.

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.

02/27/2025

The Friday Evening Music Club of the Greensburg area announces its February recital, an annual event featuring organists and other club musicians. It will be held at 7:30 pm, Friday, February 28 at First Presbyterian Church, 300 S. Main Street, Greensburg.

Organist Matt Klumpp, will perform Rockingham by Kenneth Leighton and Bach’s Little Prelude and Fugue in F Major, BWV 556. Organist Sylvia Andrae has chosen to play two settings of the English Folk Tune KINGSFOLD by two American composers, Brenda Portman and Maureen Howell. Mary McCormack, soprano, and Christine Loughran, piano, will perform Visi d'arte from the opera Tosca by Puccini as well as The Prayer by David Foster.

Guest organist, music director at Zion’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, David Bridge, will open his portion of the program with Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 549, followed by Americana: Organ Settings of Early American Hymn Tunes by composer Gilbert Martin.

We are also very honored to be celebrating Black History Month. First Presbyterian’s music director, Jeff Jones will bookend the recital, beginning with a Mark Hayes piano arrangement of George Allen’s Precious Lord, Take My Hand. To close the evening, he will head up to the organ loft to share George Shearing’s arrangement of Amazing Grace, Adolphus Hailstork’s Deep River, and Carl Haywood’s Spirit Fantasy, based on the spiritual, “Every Time I Feel the Spirit.”

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.

01/17/2025

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

Pianists for the evening include Nicholas Maynard (playing JS Bach/Grieg), student of Jacqueline Herbein; Maverick Steffey (Bobby Scott) and Georgia Evans (Paul de Sennville), students of Leslie Nemeth; Barani Oo (Cornelius Gurlitt, Lynn Freeman Olson), Johan Paul (JS Bach/Grieg), Levi Pecorari (JS Bach/Mozart), Bilgehan Akdeniz (JS Bach/Chopin), and Demi Schwartz (Debussy); all students of John Kulik.

Pianist Matt Klumpp will collaborate with flutist Jack Lynch (Chopin) and flute/sax duo Allyson and Austin Steffey (Martin Nystrom). The flutists study with Michele Boulet.

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.

Photo: 2023 Recital

11/25/2024

🎄'Tis the Season Recital
📅December 6, 2024
🕰️7:30 p.m.
📍Campana Chapel at University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

The recital will feature Debussy's Pagodes and Hills of Anacapri, Sibelius' The Birch and The Spruce, (evoking the majesty and tranquility of a Nordic forest) and Liszt's Beside a Spring, performed by guest pianist, adjunct WVU faculty member, Amy Simpson.

We will then kick off the Christmas season with vocal and instrumental arrangements of seasonal tunes. Flutist Janice Decker and pianist, Beverly Hritz will present a beautiful arrangement of the Fantasia on Greensleeves, adapted from the opera Sir John in Love, by Vaughan Williams. Michael Rozell, baritone, and Hazel Braun, piano, will share two well-loved songs with contrasting American roots. African-American spiritual, Go Tell it on the Mountain, likely out of the oral tradition, celebrates the Nativity, while I’ll Be Home for Christmas, by Kent and Gannon, was written to honor soldiers fighting in WWII who longed to be home with their loved ones.

Baritones Marc Tourre and Endy Reindl will collaborate with pianist Sylvia Andrae to present the traditional 16th century English “Coventry” Carol. The evening will conclude with a rousing (4-part) Christmas Carol Sing-Along, led by Tourre, with Rozell on piano.

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. The more, the merrier!

09/11/2024

The Friday Evening Music Club of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra announces the opening of the 2024-2025 season, “A Year of Collaboration!”

Marc Tourre, baritone is teaming up with flutist, Christina Andrae and pianist, Sylvia Andrae, to present trio arrangements of Be Thou My Vision (Tom Trenney) and There is a Higher Throne (Lloyd Larson). Dan Parasky, flute will perform “Kyrie” by celebrated Pittsburgh composer and flutist, Gay Kahkonen; pianist Matt Klumpp will join him on Henri Büsser’s Prelude and Scherzo and Deep Blue, by Ian Clarke. Members of Flute Cocktail, with assistance from flutists Andrae and Parasky, will perform Memories of East Tennessee (Austin Alan Scott); Bad Girls, mvt. 1 (Douglas Borwick); and Of Witches and Wizards (Phyllis Avidan Louke). Flute Cocktail members include Howard Cespedes, Grace Collier, Nina Edgar, Emma Jones, Beth Michael, Leslie Nemeth, Renee Patricio, Makaila Sunder, Linda Urbani and Theresa Vanden Berk, conducted by Michele Boulet. The recital is dedicated to the memory of flutist/singer/actor, Courtney Harkins, 2011 winner of the club’s Mildred Gardner Scholarship Competition.

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. Join the FEMC today! https://westmorelandsymphony.org/friday-evening-music-club/

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951 Old Salem Road
Greensburg, PA
15601

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https://westmorelandsymphony.org/friday-evening-music-club/

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