Fallingwater Twilight Tour Features Gourmet Food,
an Evening of Jazz and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterwork

  (Pittsburgh and Mill Run, Pennsylvania)   The Fallingwater® Twilight Tour and Evening of Jazz will be held on Saturday, August 25 at Frank Lloyd Wright’s world famous, architectural masterpiece in Mill Run, Pa. 

So many wonderful elements come together to make this an unforgetable summer evening. First,  and foremost is the setting of Fallingwater. This provides a unique opportunity for guests to experience, at their own pace, the house the American Institute of Architects voted the most important building of the 20th century.  Guests are invited to explore the more than 950 works of art contained inside the house, and take in the natural beauty awaiting them outside. Bear Run Stream is memorable to both eye and ear as it dramatically cascades directly beneath the house before continuing its winding journey through the breathtaking Laurel Highlands.

Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served on the bridge leading to Fallingwater. As dusk descends, a lantern-lit path will lead guests to a meadow along Bear Run where guests will enjoy a gourmet picnic dinner on the lawn while listening to a concert featuring jazz vocalist Lisa Ferraro. With a distinctive vocal style of interpreting jazz classics, Ferraro has performed with Marvin Hamlisch and the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops and released five compact disc recordings.

Fallingwater is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most widely acclaimed works.  Designed in 1935 for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann, the key to the setting of the house is the waterfall over which it was built.  Edgar J. Kaufmann jr. (sic) once described Fallingwater as “a great lantern in the forest, giving shape to the dark.”  This annual Twilight Tour gives guests the opportunity to view the house as he and his family did.
 
In 1963, Edgar Kaufmann jr. entrusted Fallingwater, including the house, its contents and grounds to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.  Fallingwater is the only remaining great Wright house with its setting, original furnishings and artwork intact.  The Conservancy preserves the house, collections and surrounding landscape as a public museum and living work of art. 

Tickets for the August 25 Fallingwater Twilight Tour and Evening of Jazz fundraiser are $175 per person ($150 per person for members of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy).  Proceeds from the evening support the continued preservation of Fallingwater.  Seating is limited and tickets must be purchased in advance. 

For more information and to purchase tickets for the Twilight Tour and Evening of Jazz, contact Fallingwater at 724-329-8501 or visit www.paconserve.org/twilight to see photos from previous twilight tours.

About Fallingwater and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy:
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) preserves Fallingwater®, the masterpiece home designed in 1935 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar J. Kaufmann in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. In 1963, Edgar Kaufmann jr. (sic) entrusted Fallingwater to the Conservancy.  As a symbol of living in harmony with nature, Fallingwater offers a wide variety of educational programs to its more than 135,000 annual visitors.   Since its founding in 1932, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has protected more than 214,000 acres of natural lands in Pennsylvania, restored watersheds and saved natural habitats for a diversity of life and uses.  Each year, WPC also partners with 4,000 volunteers and dozens of community organizations and businesses to plant and maintain 140 gardens and greening projects in 20 western Pennsylvania counties.