WorcesterMag.com: Worcester Chamber Music Society opens season with livestreaming concert Sept. 20 [Eleanor Alberga, George Walker]

 Eleanor Alberga 

String Quartets 1, 2 & 3

George Walker (1922-2018)

Worcester Magazine

By Richard Duckett
Telegram & Gazette Staff

WORCESTER — There is something reassuring in the news that the Worcester Chamber Music Society opens its 15th season at 4 p.m. Sept. 20 with a concert titled “Resonance” in Mechanics Hall. Such a sentence could have introduced a story about some of WCMS’ previous 14 seasons. 

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WCMS will perform in Mechanics Hall next Sunday, but there won’t be a seated audience and the concert will be livestreamed. Kraus said that surveys indicate WCMS’s core audience isn’t ready for an in-person concert quite yet. Besides which, Mechanics Hall isn’t hosting audience events yet.

“We talked how we would make it a live program. We will be on stage livestreaming. It will be a live performance with all the imperfections, which is the beauty of a live performance,” Kraus said.

The “Resonance” program is reassuringly dynamic, in the tradition of WCMS offerings. George Walker’s Lyric for Strings and Jamaican-born Eleanor Alberga’s “kinetic” Quartet No. 2 will receive rare local performances, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s timeless “Ghost” Trio caps what promises to be a stimulating evening of music. The concert is also the annual Tom Keil Memorial Concert.