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10/12/2025

10/10/2025

Only a few weeks until we welcome back Simone Dinnerstein! Did you know...

✨Her album recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations outsold The White Stripes on Amazon in 2007, and in its first week was a Billboard #1?!
✨She uses her father's artwork in albums and photoshoots
✨Dinnerstein is a lifelong New Yorker
✨One of Simone's commitments is to giving concerts in non-traditional venues and to audiences who don’t often hear classical music
✨Simone helped Music Worcester develop its Artist-in-Residence program

Hear Simone in action on October 24 & 25. Tickets at musicworcester.org.

10/09/2025

Kyung Wha Chung has delighted sold-out concert halls for decades. She tells a story with each performance, and invites the audience in closer with each note.

But... where did it all begin?

At the age of 19, In 1967, Chung was one of the joint winners of the Edgar Leventritt Competition, a violin & piano competition won by artists like Itzhak Perlman only two years prior to Chung! From there, she began her solo career with orchestras like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and London Symphony Orchestra. Chung's recordings took off, too, noting her flexibility as an artist, putting out recordings of classics like Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Franck's Violin Sonata.

Hear this legend perform live on November 2: tickets at musicworcester.org.

📷 Team Miura

10/09/2025

Happy Birthday Camille Saint-Saëns!

Saint-Saëns looks quite settled and content in this photo and so he should be, considering what he achieved during his long musical life. We think he would have had every reason to celebrate today!

Already at the age of two and a half he could read music, worked through his first piano method within a month and his first composition was written at the age of four. Saint-Saëns was a prodigious pianist, organist, composer and teacher and composed approximately 700 works which encompassed all musical genres.

He played a decisive role in the renewal of French music and around 1900 he was still considered, along with Berlioz, to be the most important musician of his country in the 19th century.

Here's to you Camille Saint-Saëns!

10/09/2025

This is an absolutely gorgeous album: take a little sonic journey to France and listen on your favorite streaming service!

If you're enchanted by this orchestra, join us on November 7 for their performance at Mechanics Hall. Tickets at musicworcester.org.

Le disque Ravel Paris 2025 de l'Orchestre National de France et Cristian Macelaru paru chez naïve est disponible partout !

Découvrez-le ici, en physique ou en streaming :
https://onf.bfan.link/ravelparis2025

10/08/2025

Get ready for BACHtoberfest! 🥳

Only a few weeks until the second annual BACHtoberfest Weekend: do you have your tickets yet?! Join us at Mechanics Hall for chamber music, solo repertoire, choral works, and more. Check out what there is to look forward to:

Friday night: CONCORA & Baroklyn with Simone Dinnerstein
Saturday afternoon: Peter Krasinski's organ recital
Saturday night: Simone Dinnerstein & Alexis Gerlach
Sunday afternoon: BACHtoberfest Choir

October 24-26 in Worcester. Learn more at musicworcester.org. See you at the show!

10/07/2025

Hear this tapestry of tradition at the Prior Performing Arts Center next month! American Patchwork Quartet blends music from across the world onto one stage seamlessly: explore it with us on November 14.

📷 American Patchwork Quartet

10/07/2025

It's : thank you to our media sponsors at GBH Boston's local NPR. Their programming matters to us and the community we're part of. Listen to some of their programming online or at 89.7. Thank you for your continued support!

10/07/2025

We're one month away from Daniil Trifonov's performance of Ravel's Piano Concerto with Orchestre National de France.

If you're someone who loves to know more about the program before the show, this video is for you. Enjoy Harley Lovegrove's dissection of this concerto, comparing 6 iconic recordings from throughout the last century (including Bernstein with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and Boulez with the Cleveland Orchestra).

Hear it live in Worcester: Music Worcester Presents: Orchestre National de France

Could there ever be 'the most beautiful concerto', or even a 'best' concerto? In this video, Harley Lovegrove compares six different performances of this mas...

10/07/2025

Happy Birthday, Yo-Yo Ma. Beautiful words from a wonderful musician and person!

Dear Friends and Fellow Humans,

I turn 70 today. For 7 decades I’ve had the privilege of living out my childhood dream, which was simply to UNDERSTAND. After spending more than half a century meeting people from all over the world willing to tell me their stories, I have found meaning, purpose and hope through advocating for their voices with music. I am deeply grateful to them all.

But today, I am worried. In the year 2100, my youngest grandchild will be 76. She will be meeting a world I will not see. I wonder what the world will be like then? And what can we all do now to ensure that today’s children can live with hope, purpose and meaning?

I try to remember that WE ARE NATURE. Embedded within nature, and in us, are the seeds of incredible creativity and terrifying destructiveness. My deepest birthday wish is that all of us humans become constantly aware of these opposing forces within us, and that we actively choose to create rather than destroy. Only then can we be free to imagine, invent and construct a new way of living together. Only then can we live in equilibrium with one another and with our planet, include all the wisdom of the ages, allow awe and wonder to be a part of our lives, and most of all, treat every human being with dignity:
a PLANETARY HUMANISM.

With love & affection,
Yo-Yo

10/07/2025

Take a listen and hear this group on opening night of BACHtoberfest in just a few weeks! Congrats, Simone Dinnerstein!

I am honored that Complicité is on the GRAMMY ballot in the Best Chamber/Small Ensemble Performance category. This is my first album with Baroklyn, the fabulously sensitive group of musicians that I direct from the keyboard. It was produced by Silas Brown, who is a true artist in the studio. It includes a cantata with the spectacular Jennifer Johnson Cano, Mezzo Soprano as well as the most inspired continuo reimaginings by Philip Lasser. I am so proud of this creation that we all made and hope you will give it a listen!

https://lnkfi.re/SimoneDinnersteinComplicite

10/06/2025

More Bach? Well, of course! Get ready for BACHtoberfest Weekend and listen to this interview with Simone Dinnerstein that aired when her album "Bach: A Strange Beauty" was released.

The pianist talks to All Things Considered host Robert Siegel about her new recording of J.S. Bach's keyboard music, titled Bach: A Strange Beauty.