Rhapsody in Blue
The #SEEN was set for a fabulous Saturday night at Heinz Hall, Downtown. Guests such as Jon and Casey Pratkanis, James Snyder and Danielle Katz, Bill and Vivian Benter, Mary McKinney and Mark Flaherty, Tim McVay and David Bush, Michael Lin, and Maria Caruso were dressed to the nines as they enjoyed the warm September air out in the beautiful courtyard while enjoying cocktails before heading in to see the world-renowned pianist, Lang Lang perform with 14-year-old prodigy Maxim Lando. “This will be the first time I will have heard him perform and the energy around him is so exciting. seats. “This is truly one for It’s a dream come the ages as we celebrate one true to have him here,” said of the world’s greatest pianists, board chair Devin Lang Lang, for this McGranahan with wife world premiere performance,” Shannon. The sold-out gala said music director is the PSO’s largest fundraiser Manfred Honeck. Lang of the year. Lang, who had injured his
The anticipation was palpable left hand, was only playing as guests such as Ron with his right. He and and Judy Linaburg, Ken and Maxim intertwined arms Pam McCrory and Jean and moved as one otherworldly Horne settled into their creature, almost unaware of the dance-like quality of the dreamy trance they had put themselves into. It was like watching musical ecstasy, the synergy and magic of the motion captivated the audience from start to the very end of George Gershwin’s masterpiece, “Rhapsody in Blue.” One for the ages, indeed.
#SEEN: Honorary gala chairs Dick and Ginny Simmons, gala chairs Mike and Angela DeVanney, CEO and president Melia Tourangeau with husband Michael, soiree chairs Adam and Megan Bauman, honorary soiree chairs Brian Ashton, Michele Meloy Burchfield and Richard Ernsberger, Leif Johnson Jr., Richard Rauh, Dr. John and Dee Hoyt, Don and Judy Borneman, Dr. Norman Wolmark and Eva Blum, Dr. David Levenson and Deb Caplan, Jay and Bonnie Mangold, Steven Webster, Doug Heuck and Marylynn Uricchio and Anil and Shruti Gupta. Also at the event were Lukas BarwinskiBrown, CEO of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation,Gina Redlinger; and Lang Lang’s father Guoren Lang, who when asked how he feels when he watches his son play responded: “I am touched, but I have seen him play like this since he has been little. He justgrew up like this.”