Pete Buttigieg accompanying the South Bend Symphony

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https://www.southbendtribune.com/south-bend-symphony-orchestra-concert-feat-mayor-pete-buttigieg-at/image_b3aa8758-6c0c-11e3-933b-0019bb30f31a.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR2vZpRFGj9JKMm8GD4tjEoNx_4IjKlV1M7z-_R4MrrUrvS12UyByLC2-gY

Maestro Tsung Yeh and the SBSO reminded a larger-than-normal audience of more than 1,850 people of why George Gershwin remains one of America’s most popular songwriters and composers with an all-Gershwin program.

Yeh and the SBSO made “An American in Paris” a light and vivacious work at its faster tempos and filled with melancholy and longing at its slower moments.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg made his concert debut as the piano soloist for “Rhapsody in Blue” and acquitted himself well as he executed the piece’s difficult fast passages with technical precision, although technique sometimes took precedence over expressiveness.

Guest vocalists and Indiana University South Bend students Tamra Garrett and Lawrence Mitchell-Matthews made the second half of the concert dramatic with their emotionally expressive and vocally superb renditions of selections from the 1935 opera “Porgy and Bess.”

Have to say I am beginning to wonder if there is anything he is bad at.

[sdfernando]

1. A definite plus in my book

Any artistic ability is always a good thing!

[Kurt V.]

2. is there anything he can't do?

[Bleacher Creature]

3. He is quite literally the anti-Trump.

And in 2019, that's as big of a compliment as I can offer anyone.

[MFGsunny]

4. Kudos! n/t

[mobeau69]

5. Not the greatest video but here's Pete in 2015

[bitterross]

6. Too damn bad he already has a husband!

[murielm99]

7. Wows, Mayor Pete!

K&R

[applegrove]

8. He seems so brilliant, personable and so talented. Wish I'd seen the town hall.

Can't wait to see him in a debate.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Here you go, my dear applegrove:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=cnn+town+hall+pete+buttigieg

This should work!

[applegrove]

10. Thank you Peggy. You are the best.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. You're very welcome, and too kind besides! I knew where to find it.

And I wanted you to see it.

He is really good.

[applegrove]

14. Talks like a real knowledgeable person. How refreshing.

[Autumn]

12. Seriously. Is there anything this man does not excel at?

What an amazing human being. If he were elected what a world we would have.

[patricia92243]

15. Stole the words right out of my mouth. :)

[Blue_true]

13. He better watch out.

Rightwing evangelicals will accuse him of being Satan because he speaks foreign languages (speaking in tongues) and he plays a good piano.

[patricia92243]

16. Great article but no video :(

[dsc]

17. I know I wonder if they had an issue with rights

mechanical rights are expensive.

[jcgoldie]

18. impressive!

Seems a bit more of a serious talent than Bill on the sax!