2021-2022 Season Schedule

2021-2022 | Season 16 Concert Schedule

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Concert Venues
Jean McDonough Arts Center BrickBox (Worcester, MA), Worcester Historical Museum, Fitchburg Art Museum, Unitarian Universalist Church (Harvard, MA), and First Congregational Church (Princeton, MA)

Crossing Borders

String Theory_ Peter and Jesse

Looking East

The Nason A. Hurowitz Memorial Concert
Friday, April 22 | Fitchburg Art Museum @7:30 PM
Sunday, April 24 | Jean McDonough Arts Center Brick Box @4 PM

Edvard Grieg String Quartet No. 1 in g minor, Op. 27
György Kósa Trio for Flute, Viola, and Cello
Grażyna Bacewicz Piano Quintet No. 1

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Previous Concerts

photo of composer Margaret Bonds

American Voices

Friday, Sept. 24 | Harvard Unitarian Church @7:30 PM
Sunday, Sept. 26 | Jean McDonough Arts Center BrickBox @4 PM
(in-person and live-streamed)

William Grant Still Folk Song Suite #1
William Grant Still Grief
Margaret Bonds The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Henry Thacker Burleigh Saracen Songs
Antonín Dvořák American Quintet

Guest: Cailin Marcel Manson, baritone

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Cailin Marcel Manson in action

Chamber Opera: A Dill Pickle

Sunday, Oct. 10 | Jean McDonough Arts Center BrickBox @3:30 PM

World Premiere!
A Dill Pickle by Matt Malsky

Cailin Marcel Manson, baritone
Caitlyn Felsman, mezzo-soprano
Peter Sulski, violin
Mark Berger, viola
Ariana Falk, cello

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ChamberFest Summer Concerts

French Connections

Sunday, Nov. 14 | Jean McDonough Arts Center BrickBox @4 PM

Lili Boulanger Deux pieces en trio
Aaron Copland
Duo for flute and piano
Frank Bridge String Sextet

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Baroque in Winter

Thursday, Dec. 9 | Princeton Congregational Church @7:30 PM
Friday, Dec. 10 | Worcester Historical Museum @7:30 PM

Guiseppe Torelli Christmas Concerto Op. 8, No. 6 in G minor
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in G minor for viola and cello
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Noels for instruments
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in F major RV 433 “La tempesta di mare”
Johann Sebastian Bach Double Violin Concerto, BWV 1043

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Joshua Gordon, cello and Randall Hodgkinson, piano

Spotlight Concert
Joshua Gordon and Randall Hodgkinson

Friday, March 4 | Jean McDonough Arts Center BrickBox @4 PM

Joshua Gordon, cello
Randall Hodgkinson, piano

Johannes Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Marti Epstein
 Lazy Susan (1997)
George Walker Cello Sonata (1957)

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Aaponi's Destiny
A Free Family Concert

Sunday, March 6 | Jean McDonough Arts Center
Two shows @1:30 and 4:00 PM
In collaboration with the Ecotarium and Creative Hub Worcester

Erik Jorgenson Aaponi’s Destiny
Born at the bottom of a river, Aaponi begins the journey in her very short life. In this interactive concert, the audience determines where she goes! Come early and visit the Ecotarium’s insect/mayfly display.

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