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The latest concert by the McKeesport Symphony Pops will be offered as a special Easter Weekend treat by Carnegie Mellon University's student-run radio station.
"A Musical Postcard," taped March 21 at McKeesport Area High School, will be broadcast at 4 p.m. Saturday over WRCT-FM (88.3). Although the station's signal is not strong in the Mon-Yough area, the concert will also be heard online at www.wrct.org.
The concert was recorded by Tube City Online's partner organization, Lightning Community Broadcasting, which hopes to bring a low-power public FM station to McKeesport. Last summer, Lightning webcast International Village from Renziehausen Park.
The taping was supported by McKeesport Symphony Society and approved by Pittsburgh Musicians' Union AFM Local 60-471, which represents the members of the McKeesport Symphony Orchestra.
MSO Music Director Bruce Lauffer says the orchestra is reaching out to the Greater Pittsburgh area to let people know that McKeesport offers high-quality, professional symphony concerts.
"I was talking to someone from White Oak recently who told me that he wasn't aware that McKeesport had a symphony," Lauffer says. "We are working to change that."
He's seen similar economic challenges in McKeesport as in his native Jeannette and in Beaver County, where he now lives. But Lauffer says suggestions that the MSO move to a more prosperous community are misguided.
"This symphony belongs right here in McKeesport, where it's always been," he says.
The next McKeesport Symphony Pops concert, set for May 16, will feature Latin music, including Leonard Bernstein's score for the Broadway musical "West Side Story." Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $8 for students, and may be purchased at the symphony's website.
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