Eleanor Alberga
String Quartets 1, 2 & 3
George Walker (1922-2018)
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.
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