THE TOAST OF BUDAPEST (AND VIENNA AND...)

The University of Pittsburgh’s Men’s Glee Club is back from a European concert tour last month—the group’s first visit to Europe since 1990. Director Richard Teaster (front, center of the group photo) says the 30-member ensemble’s repertoire of mostly American music was enthusiastically received during its performances in Budapest (pictured above), Vienna, Salzburg, and Prague. “Choral music at its best” was how a reporter described it in the Herrnbaumgarten, Austria, newspaper. Marta Lindop, the club’s tour guide in Hungary, was so impressed she told Teaster she wants to hear the club perform somewhere in the United States next year when she’s here visiting relatives in Cleveland. Founded in 1890, the Men’s Glee Club is the oldest nonathletic extracurricular group at Pitt.