Letters to the Editor

My name is J. Patrick McGill and I am a music teacher in Washington County. I am also married to Bethany Mingle, a 2001 graduate of Central High School. We met in Pittsburgh where both of us have had successful careers as singers with the most prestigious organizations in the city, including the Pittsburgh Opera, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, and Resonance Works Pittsburgh, in addition to her work as a physician assistant and mine as a teacher. We are both appalled at the hasty removal of the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” from the Spring Cove Middle School Chorus concert by the school di...