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Fallingwater Twilight Tour Features Gourmet Food,
an Evening of Jazz and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterwork
(Pittsburgh and Mill Run, Pennsylvania, March 26, 2007) 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.
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.
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.
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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 212,000 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 5,000 volunteers and dozens of community organizations and businesses to plant and maintain 135 gardens and greening projects in 20 western Pennsylvania counties. |