grego from senior perspective tonight is my great pleasure to introduce arnie brock from the washington county are square and he is going to be telling us a little about it and how they started where they're from and all  brock washington county or its choir is a choir of a bat sixty five members of men and women they range from eighteen to eighty and there are throughout washington county some of them live in allegheny county are we actually have a couple from butler county that come down to sing with us and tonight we have a small group from that choir that will be performing small committed to doing a variety of styles of music we've performed pop songs from the fifty's sixty's and seventy's we've done broadway show tunes we have done jazz we did  hope with him we have done the rather magnificat that was written in one thousand nine hundred by john rutter we've done handel's messiah from the bro period of music we have done great american favorites such songs as swanee river and my old kentucky home and we've done gospel songs and we've done patriotic songs and this concert we're doing some patriotic songs as well as along with the jonathan boyd who has performed in most of the great opera houses throughout the world and we were very fortunate to have him also sebastian catan a is in the metropolitan opera he performed with us on the messiah he has also performed in italy and throughout the united states also we've brought in melanie carey who is in the new york city opera is a soprano zero which was some of the finest orchestral musicians of the pittsburgh area what is the washington county art squire performing we are doing the brahms requiem which  l over an hour and we are performing that at westminster presbyterian church on sunday may seventeenth and then also washington jefferson college at the  fine arts center saturday may thirtieth and the one it will be at seven thirty the one at western minster will be at seven o'clock on sunday may seventeenth the brahms requiem was actually written for people who have lost loved ones many of requiems are written for people who have died this re written to comfort those who've lost friends and loved ones relatives and every living and yeah it's going to sit or to be the most beautiful major work ever written by most authorities and they can get them by either calling our office which is the number is seven to four to five zero zero nine two two two and one two two two is w c a say or they can go on there off of water dam road yeah ok good ok what brought you to start to acquire while there was no official choir in washington county and i retired from teaching in michigan and moved back home to pennsylvania and i thought that washington county could use a choir they needed a choral group so i said down with dr brady already who is a friend and  discussed how we were going to set up a choir and how it needed to be run and from there we're in our seventh year now seven years and years oh it's wonderful oh you've got some very talented members we do you really do i mean i heard them while they were practicing and it was wonderful thank you and then well i guess that me see you have a bachelor's of music degree yes i went to west virginia university and received my bachelor music there and from there i went to michigan to teach and then i got my masters in music at the wayne state university in detroit and  also the education specialist certificate in leadership in administration from wayne state university so i taught up there for thirty two years and moved back home and welcome thank four two five zero nine two two two which is w c a c that's one way of doing it or they can go online and w c a c def sing dot org and receive information as to how to become a choir member oh again i mean again you can tell us where this concert is going to be helped ok this concert will be sunday may the seventeenth at seven pm at westminster presbyterian church on old washington road in upper saying claire and we will be having melanie the carrie from the new york city opera as our  was around the pittsburgh area he also teaches at st vincent college and he will be the baritone soloist and it will be don't we will be doing the brahms requiem which is again a gorgeous piece of music talk to some of your question members and they really love the way you teach them well good yeah and i didn't realize there were so many things to sing in the choir i mean  and all that and they realized how much how important that was yeah it's different singing in a choir than a person singing as a soloist in a choir everybody has to sing each  exactly the same way and if they don't it's not going to sound right i noticed that and i mean and i was really impressed at how you really take it you know how you can do all of them to the interest all seem to fall right into place we hope so anyway i also tell the choir and any choir that i've ever directed is when you're in a choir you deliver a message and people playing instruments they can deliver beautiful music but they can't deliver that message and here with the the brahms requiem we have a spiritual message that we're trying to deliver and that's what they need to focus on as well and also with a patriotic you have a great message there to this right and i think you put it across very well thank you to close our program i think maybe we should maybe hear them sing god bless america sounds