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Arcadia Players presents Handel’s Messiah

Saturday December 17th at 7pm Abbey Memorial Chapel, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA After years of waiting, Arcadia Players renews a treasured holiday tradition: George Frideric Handel’s masterpiece Messiah, live in concert. This production, led by Artistic Director Andrew Arceci, brings together a strong cast of local and regional artists, including Illuminati Vocal Arts […]

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2022 Winchendon Music Festival

Winchendon Music Festival Andrew Arceci, Director   December 18: William Simms, theorbo December 27: Asako Takeuchi, baroque violin December 28: Philipp A. Stäudlin, saxophone & Yoko Hagino, piano January 7: John Arcaro & Band All programs: 7pm   Winchendon History & Cultural Center  151 Front Street Winchendon, MA 01475    To reserve tickets (free, but reservations required), please

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Harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky Releases New Video of a Suite by Spanish Composer José de Nebra

José de Nebra (1702-1768) is well known as a composer of opera, but only a few scattered keyboard pieces of his circulated until a substantial manuscript was discovered recently in a cathedral archive in Zaragoza. Nebra’s manuscript was published last year in an excellent edition by Luis Antonio González Marín (Bologna: Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2021).

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Musicians of the Old Post Road presents American Originals: A Moravian Christmas

Saturday, December 10, 2022, 4:00 pm Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA, in-person Sunday, December 11, 2022, 4:00 pm Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester, MA, in-person, and live-streamed at oldpostroad.org For over thirty years, Musicians of the Old Post Road has delighted in “unwrapping something fresh for the holidays” (The Worcester Telegram), and this season is no exception!

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Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players presents ANONYMOUS

Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Music by unnamed composers comprises a third of the magnificent Kroměříž collection in the Czech Republic, outnumbering any named composer’s work. Whoever its authors are, the anonymous music’s craft equals that of the known composers there, like Schmelzer and Biber, which is uniformly excellent and worthy of many concerts. 

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