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
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
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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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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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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Spotlight Concert
Joshua Gordon and Randall Hodgkinson
Friday, March 4 | Jean McDonough Arts Center BrickBox @4 PM
Joshua Gordon, cello
Randall Hodgkinson, piano
Marti Epstein Lazy Susan (1997)
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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.