
Performers ranging from age 12-18 receive congratulations after “A Concert for Orphans” April 8 in the auditorium of Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering. The show was sponsored by the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science and was presented by Children’s Hope International and Worldways Children’s Museum. An audience of about 200 heard outstanding classical music performed by winners of the Midwest Baldwin Piano Competition held in Kansas City in October. Svetlana and Svyatoslav Levin, classical pianists from Russia who now live in Kansas City, brought the program to Whitaker Hall. Last year, they held the first benefit concert to raise money for orphans around the world. This was the second such annual concert, with a specific focus on raising funds to provide musical instruments for an orphanage in Ethiopia.