Tube City Almanac

December 20, 2012

Briefly Noted: Symphony On-the-Air Dec. 24

Category: Announcements || By Submitted Report

The McKeesport-based Orchestra of the Alleghenies returns to the airwaves at 12 noon this Monday with a program of holiday music featuring Joe Negri.

The concert includes traditional carols as well as selections from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "The Polar Express," plus the jazz stylings of Negri, an internationally known guitarist warmly remembered by generations of children and parents from his appearances on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."

For the fourth consecutive year, Pittsburgh's WRCT-FM (88.3) and McKeesport-based Tube City Community Media Inc. will present the annual Christmas concert by the orchestra (formerly known as the McKeesport Symphony Pops).

The broadcast over 88.3 FM also will be heard online at www.wrct.org.

It was taped Dec. 16, at McKeesport Area High School by Tube City Community Media Inc., with the cooperation of the McKeesport Symphony Society and the American Federation of Musicians 60-471.

Tube City Community Media Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates the www.tubecityonline.com website, and for the past four years has also broadcast McKeesport's International Village folk music festival.

The McKeesport Symphony Society, founded in 1959, oversees the Orchestra of the Alleghenies, a regional symphony comprised of professional, paid musicians from across the Pittsburgh area. Bruce Lauffer is in his 10th season as the conductor and music director. For more information, visit www.mckeesportsymphony.org.

Owned by the students of Carnegie Mellon, WRCT-FM is staffed entirely by students and community volunteers. Its programming includes all types of music, Carnegie Mellon sports, and public-service and educational shows, including the award-winning "Saturday Light Brigade" and "Rust Belt Radio," as well as news from the Pacifica Network.

Broadcasting 24 hours per day at 1,750-watts on the FM dial, WRCT's signal reaches all of Allegheny County and parts of three adjoining counties. For more information, visit www.wrct.org.






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