A concert at the Vatican featuring the Pittsburgh Symphony and an international cast of performers was performed for the Pope with the purpose of fostering understanding between the world’s major religious faiths. “The inter-faith theme of the concert was echoed among the performers – a mixed choir consisting of singers from the London Philharmonic, from Turkey, from the Pope’s own home town of Krakow in Poland and from Pittsburgh in the United States. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra was under the baton of Gilbert Levine, an American who used to direct the Krakow Symphony Orchestra and who is a personal friend of the Pope.”