{"id":779939,"date":"2026-05-07T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/779939\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:45:15","slug":"musicians-from-chicago-symphony-orchestra-lyric-opera-orchestra-and-more-perform-at-benefit-concert-for-citys-immigrant-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/779939\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians from Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera Orchestra, and More Perform at Benefit Concert for City\u2019s Immigrant Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/in-the-loop-with-sasha-ann-simons\/2026\/05\/05\/cso-lyric-opera-musicians-to-host-benefit-concert-for-local-immigration-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WBEZ<\/a>\u00a0(Chicago), Micah Yason reports, \u201cChicago\u2019s music scene is coming together for a cause hitting close to home. Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera Orchestra, and more are preparing for a particularly meaningful performance to support immigrant communities here in our city. Putting on the benefit concert, which takes place next Friday, is a nonprofit called Centro Romero. They provide legal, social, and educational services to families who need it most.\u201d Yason interviews Max Raimi, violist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Heather Wittels, first violin section member, Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and director of Chamber Music, University of Chicago; and Grace McManus, development assistant, Centro Romero. The concert happens on Friday, May 15 at PianoForte Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Tuesday\u2019s WBEZ\u00a0(Chicago), Micah Yason reports, \u201cChicago\u2019s music scene is coming together for a cause hitting close to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":779940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,718,5386,1818,3717,3096],"class_list":{"0":"post-779939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-musicians","13":"tag-refugees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116534072333179926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}