Prior Performing Arts Center

Michael Beatty: Fabrications
2025-01-21 - 2025-04-05 | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Michael Beatty, Inside Out, 2020, birch plywood, resin, welded steel and paint, 15″ x 16″ x 10″. Courtesy of the Krakow Witkin Gallery.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery

Michael Beatty: Fabrications

Selected works from 1992 to present

Associate Professor Emeritus Michael Beatty taught sculpture and three-dimensional design at Holy Cross for 25 years before retiring in 2023. This retrospective exhibition celebrating his sculptural practice investigates duality and hierarchy as a dialogue between technology-assisted and handmade forms. Beatty’s work, inclusive of prints and drawings, is informed by concepts and visual culture taken from science, nature, and mathematics. Beatty’s sculptures and drawings are evocative hybrids of geometry and biological form.

Details

January 21-April 5, 2025

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art GalleryThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols
2024-12-05 20:00 (America/New_York) | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols

Please join us for the College’s Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols for Advent.
The service will take place in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel on Thursday, December 5 at 8:00 PM.

Details

December 5, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Holy Cross Laptop Ensemble Federation
2024-12-03 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Booth Media Lab –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Laptop Ensemble Federation

Designed as an experiential, hands-on learning environment, MUSC 242: Coding Music welcomes all majors interested in sound synthesis, DIY instrument design, and collaborative performance of live electronic music. The end-of-the semester concert will showcase final student projects written for the class.

Details

December 3, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Booth Media LabPrior Performing Arts Center

Inspired by Blue
2024-11-25 12:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Cantor Art Gallery –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery; Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance

Inspired By Blue

Join us for a performance of compositions by students in Professor Matthew Jaskot’s Composition/Songwriting course and dances from students in Professor Jimena Bermejo’s Body Stories. These works are inspired by the current gallery exhibition Blue Profundity: Contemporary Artists Revisit a Color.

Details

November 25, 202412:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art GalleryThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble | Earth Songs
2024-11-24 15:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble | Earth Songs

Join the Holy Cross Wind Ensemble for a musical journey inspired by the beauty of the earth.
Experience diverse climates and locations, from the serene Alaskan snow to the sound of a gentle rain which the audience will help create. The program features Frank Ticheli’s “Earth Song,” described by the composer as “a cry and a prayer for peace,” along with additional works by Whitacre, Hall, Ives, Iannaccone, Balmages, and others.
This concert will be an exploration and celebration of our beautiful planet.

Details

November 24, 20243:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band with Mali Obomsawin
2024-11-22 19:30 | PRIOR PRESENTS – Boroughs Theatre –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Prior Presents 2024–25

Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Bandwith Mali Obomsawin

Buy Tickets: Fri Nov 22, 2024 @ 7:30 PM

The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band (JKIBB) is an ensemble of Native and Indigenous jazz musicians from across Indian Country. Performing pieces from their under-appreciated predecessors in jazz alongside works by contemporary Indigenous composers, the band spotlights a vibrant, long-standing tradition of Indigenous improvised music today. Led by the celebrated vocalist Julia Keefe (Nez Perce), the ensemble brings charisma, passion, and purpose to every stage, leaving audiences both inspired and educated.
JKIBB will be supported at The Prior by Mali Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation), an award-winning bassist, songwriter and composer. Obomsawin’s stunning debut Sweet Tooth (2022) received international acclaim and was named in “best of” lists from GRAMMY.com to JazzTimes and NPR. With an expansive background in American roots, rock, and jazz, Obomsawin carries several music traditions. Beyond the stage she is a community organizer and advocate for Indigenous rights and environmental justice.

“Jazz is a uniquely American art form. The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band…takes that one step further.”
— Olympian, 2022

“[Obomsawin’s Sweet Tooth] not only works as potent commentary on indigenous heritage, autonomy and experiences, but as gripping, dynamic and thunderous music in and of itself.”
— Morgan Enos, Jazz Times

Details

November 22, 20247:30 PM

Price

$25Prices are subject to change without notice

Venue

Boroughs TheatreThe Prior Performing Arts Center

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Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble
2024-11-21 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble

The Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble will perform American Jazz standards under the direction of Mike Monaghan.

Details

November 21, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center

Brooks and Organ Scholars Recital
2024-11-20 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Brooks and Organ Scholars Recital

The Brooks Scholarship is a four-year, full tuition scholarship offered to a music major or double major in music and another discipline. They demonstrate outstanding accomplishment in their area of musical study as well as significant academic achievement. The Department of Music is proud to present a concert featuring the Brooks and Organ Scholars, our most accomplished student artists.

Details

November 20, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Adam Chau, Artist Talk + Clay Demo
2024-11-20 12:00 | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery

Adam Chau, Artist Talk + Clay Demo

Adam Chau, whose work is featured in the Cantor Art Gallery’s current exhibition Blue Profundity, will give a lunchtime gallery talk and hands-on clay demonstration. A graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Industrial Design program, his research blends digital technology with traditional studio craft. In 2018, Adam was awarded the Emerging Artist Fellowship from the National Council for the Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and in 2019 became a member of the International Academy of Ceramics, a UNESCO partner.
Chau will discuss the hybrid approach to art-making, as well as the integration of digital culture, queer politics, and adding to the canon of traditional blue and white pottery.
Snacks provided and/or BYO lunch!

Details

November 20, 202412:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
The Prior Performing Arts Center

Mfoniso Udofia's Sojourners | Pop-up with The Huntington Theatre
2024-11-19 19:00 | PRIOR PRESENTS – Boroughs Theatre –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Prior Presents 2024–25 with The Huntington Theatre

Mfoniso Udofia’s Sojourners

RSVP: Tue Nov 19, 2024 @ 7:00 PM

With Sojourners, the first chapter in her sweeping Ufot Cycle, nationally acclaimed playwright Mfoniso Udofia explores the collision of marriage, migration, and the pursuit of education. Set in 1978, this lively, funny play centers on a young and brilliant Nigerian couple arrives in Houston, looking to earn their degrees and bring insights back to their home country. But when Abasiama discovers that her husband has been seduced by Motown records and American culture, she has to choose between the Nigerian Dream and her obligations as a matriarch.
Udofia draws inspiration for the nine-play Ufot Cycle from her time growing up in Southbridge, MA and from meeting playwright August Wilson at Boston’s Huntington Theatre. The Prior is thrilled to partner with the Huntington on this pop-up event, which brings the company’s full production of Sojourners to Holy Cross.
Udofia’s plays have previously been produced at New York Theatre Workshop, American Conservatory Theater, the Playwrights Realm, the Boston Court, and more. She also writes and produces for film and television, including on “Lessons in Chemistry,” “Let the Right One In,” and “A League of Their Own.”

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‘Sojourners’ rises to the challenge — and beyond — of launching a nine-play cycle

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Details

November 19, 20247:00 PM

Price

Free EntryCourtesy of initiative from Boston’s Mayor Michelle Wu

Venue

Boroughs TheatreThe Prior Performing Arts Center

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Over the next two years, a consortium of theatre companies and activation partners across Greater Boston will produce Mfoniso Udofia’s 9-play cycle which follows three generations of a Nigerian American family. Boston’s Ufot Family Cycle represents two years of convening, planning, and investment by The Huntington to incubate and create this one-of-a-kind event.

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Chamber Music Recital
2024-11-19 18:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Chamber Music Recital

Chamber music is played by small ensembles of two or more players such as duos, trios, quartets, etc., where every part is played by a single performer. Its intimate setting creates a process that is democratic, participative, and that across history has been compared to a conversation among friends. This recital features the students who participate in the Chamber Music course as they perform the works they have studied during the semester.

Details

November 19, 20246:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

End of Semester Student Recitals
2024-11-15 16:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

End of Semester Student Recitals

Students who participated in the private lesson program will perform the works they studied during the semester.

Details

November 15, 20244:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Holy Cross Orchestra
2024-11-13 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Join the Holy Cross Orchestra for “Dances, Marches and Dreams.” This program spans over 300 years of musical history, featuring compositions from 1713 to 2022. Experience the diverse dreamlike worlds created by composers across different cultures and eras. Each piece offers a unique glimpse into how these composers have interpreted themes of dance, celebration, and imagination through their artistic perspectives.
Program includes works by Bach, Mozart, Suppé, Respighi, Whitacre, Oguntola, and more.

Details

November 13, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: Ezequiel Menendez, organ
2024-11-12 12:40 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Ezequiel Menendez, organ

The organist is an Artist-in-Residence at College of the Holy Cross and Director of Music of the Archdiocese of Hartford, CT.

Details

November 12, 202412:40 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Working Writer Series: Kerri Arsenault
2024-11-07 19:30 | CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Rehm Library in Smith Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Working Writer Series

Kerri Arsenault

Kerri Arsenault is the co-director of The Environmental Storytelling Studio; contributing editor at Orion Magazine; and author or the award-winning book Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. Her writing has been published in the Boston Globe, The Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Freeman’s, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
Mill Town received numerous awards, including the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction, and an Inge Feltrinelli Prize, dedicated to women writers who have used their voices in defense of human rights.

Details

November 7, 20247:30 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Rehm Library3rd Floor, Smith Hall

Lunchtime Concert Series | Children of Shadow and Light
2024-11-06 12:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – The Beehive –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music | Lunchtime Concert Series

Children of Shadow and Light

Sergio Muñoz Leiva, viola
Matt Jaskot, piano

Childhood: a time of innocence, joy, and promise. It is because of these associations that the suffering and loss of children seem more poignant and tragic.
Violist Sergio Muñoz Leiva and pianist Matthew Jaskot present chamber music inspired by children and the complex emotions that arise when childhood intersects with war, social injustice, and death. Lighthearted compositions by Chick Corea (excerpts from Children’s Songs) and Robert Schumann (excerpts from Kinderszenen) are contrasted by music by Mary Kouyoumdjian (A Boy and a Makeshift Toy), Victor Jara (Luchín), and Jaskot (Still, You Bloom in my Heart, world premiere).

Details

November 6, 202412:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

The BeehiveThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Gospel Choir Concert at All Saint's Day Mass
2024-11-01 13:30 | HOLY CROSS COMMUNITY – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Holy Cross Community

Gospel Choir Concert at All Saint’s Day Mass

As we continue to celebrate the centennial of St. Joseph Memorial Chapel and mark the beginning of Black Catholic History Month, join us for All Saints Day Mass, at 12:05pm on November 1.
The Gospel Choir from St. Augustine’s Church in Washington, DC – the Mother Church of Black Catholics in the Nation’s Capital – will provide music for Mass and offer a mini-concert of their repertoire following at 1:30pm.
The Chaplains’ Office will incorporate images of the Saintly Six and prayers for their canonization into the celebration.
Students from both the Nativity School of Worcester and the Nativity of Boston will also be in attendance.

Details

November 1, 202412:00 PM Mass1:30 PM Concert

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
2024-10-31 - 2024-11-10 | DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE – Boroughs Theatre –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Theatre & Dance

Cymbeline

by William Shakespeare

ALL SHOWS SOLD OUT
Cymbeline is a fairy tale about an ancient British king married to a wicked queen who conspires against Imogen, his daughter from a previous marriage. It is a tale of deceit, jealousy, and accusations of infidelity that leads ultimately to the slandering and subjugation of an innocent princess. Imogen emerges triumphant when she confronts and ultimately absolves the men who have betrayed and maligned her. Filled with action and song, Cymbeline is an epic romantic adventure about the power of love and the centrality of family that concludes with shocking revelations and a joyous reconciliation.
Ed Isser directs.

EVENING PRESENTATIONS

THU NOV 7 @ 7:30 PM
FRI NOV 8 @ 7:30 PM
SAT NOV 9 @ 7:30 PM

MATINEE PRESENTATIONS

SUN NOV 10 @ 2:00 PM

Details

October 31 at 7:30 PMNovember 1, 2, 7, 8, and 9 at 7:30 PMNovember 3 and 10 at 2:00 PM

Price

$15 Public | $10 Holy Cross Community

Venue

Boroughs TheatreThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: Johann Vexo, organ
2024-10-29 19:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Johann Vexo, organ

Johann Vexo is the organist for the Cathedral of Nancy, France.

Details

October 29, 20247:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Songwriting Workshop with River Glen
2024-10-29 15:30 - 17:00 | HOLY CROSS COMMUNITY – Ensemble Room, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Holy Cross Community

Songwriting Workshop with River Glen

Sign Up: Oct 29, 2024 @ 3:30 PM

In this workshop, students will discuss how to create words and music that matter to them. Singer-songwriter River Glen will deconstruct some of his own songs before working directly with students on their in-progress songs.
Participants should bring ideas, music or lyrics but do not need to consider themselves songwriters or have prior experience.
Light refreshments will be served.

Details

October 29, 20243:30 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Ensemble RoomPrior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble & Worcester Youth Wind Ensemble
2024-10-28 19:30 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble & Worcester Youth Wind Ensemble

The Holy Cross Orchestra is excited to host the Worcester Youth Wind Ensemble for a shared concert featuring both ensembles performing in collaboration.
The Worcester Youth Wind Ensemble is part of the Worcester Youth Orchestra organization and is open to students in grades 7-12.

Details

October 28, 20247:30 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Sunshine Over the Blessed Earth | Holy Cross College Choir and Chamber Singers Concert
2024-10-25 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Sunshine Over The Blessed Earth

Music celebrating life, earth, and heaven from geographically distant locations. Most of the selections on our program come to us from countries that are over 4000 miles away; locations that would take multiple legs of transportation, or are otherwise a challenge to access from Worcester, MA. We’re deeply grateful to the people with personal connections to these countries in our community who have shared their language, stories, and expertise as we embark on the joyful journey of performing this music.

Details

October 25, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Working Writer Series: Allegra Hyde
2024-10-24 19:30 | CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Booth Media Lab –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Working Writer Series

Allegra Hyde

Fiction writer Allegra Hyde is featured in this Working Writer Series event sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.

Details

October 24, 20247:30 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Booth Media LabThe Prior Performing Arts Center

From Pigments to Perception: The Chemical Origins of Color
2024-10-22 16:00 | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery

From Pigments to Perception: The Chemical Origins of Color

Featuring Class Deans and Professors Sarah Petty (Chemistry) and Rob Bellin (Biology)

Blue is everywhere in the world around us . . . or is it? In fact, many of the things we see as blue have no blue pigments in them at all. Why, then, do we perceive them as blue and how does science make that possible? Of course, some things are colored by pigments — we will explore the science of those colors as well.
Join us for this fascinating conversation at the Cantor Art Gallery with Class Deans and Professors Sarah Petty (Chemistry) and Rob Bellin (Biology) about the science of color.
Free entry and blue-colored snacks provided!

Details

October 22, 2024
4:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
The Prior Performing Arts Center

Irish Music Hour in Worcester: John Carty & Alan Murray
2024-10-20 13:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Irish Traditional Music Hour in Worcester

John Carty, fiddle & banjo
Alan Murray, bouzouki & guitar

John Carty and Alan Murray will explore together the rich and diverse domain of Irish traditional music. John Carty is one of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians having been awarded the Irish Television station, TG4’s Traditional Musician of the Year in 2003.
Born in London, fiddle and banjo player John Carty has established himself among the elite in Irish traditional music and as a staunch supporter of its preservation. He will delve into the different dance tunes with his noted inventive and creative musicianship on fiddle, banjo and tenor guitar accompanied tastefully by Alan on bouzouki and guitar who will also enhance the whole performance with his songs.
These two musicians, both with numerous accolades in their respective careers, are collaborating for what promises to be a not-to-be-missed performance here at the college.

Details

October 20, 20241:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Mike Monaghan & Friends
2024-10-10 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Mike Monaghan & Friends

Renowned Jazz musician Mike Monaghan and his colleagues, Ben Cook, Marshall Wood, Marty Richards, John Wilkins will perform an exciting evening of jazz improvisation.

Details

October 10, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2024-10-03 18:00 | PRIOR PRESENTS – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Prior Presents 2024–25

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

RSVP: Thu Oct 3, 2024 @ 6:00 PM

Poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times-bestselling World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Her essay collection, Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees, blends reporting, research, and memoir to celebrate food as a locus for care, grief, desire, nostalgia.
Nezhukumatathil’s four poetry collections explore how we live in the world, lend inventive attention to issues of environmental concern. Said Poetry Foundation of Lucky Fish, “Nezhukumatathil’s third book affirms her reputation as one of the master miners of the curious fact in science, history, nature and culture.” The winner of numerous prizes and fellowships, Nezukumatahil is also the first-ever poetry editor for SIERRA magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club.

“Nezhukumatathil speaks with resonance and fierceness.”
— Publishers Weekly

Details

October 3, 20246:00 PM

Price

Free Entry (RSVP Required)

Venue

Luth Concert Hall
The Prior Performing Arts Center

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Lunchtime Concert Series | Blue Sonority
2024-10-03 12:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Cantor Art Gallery –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music | Lunchtime Concert Series

Blue Sonority

What does blue sound like?
This is the fundamental question that inspires this program in response to the exhibition Blue Profundity: Contemporary Artists Revisit a Color, currently showing at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery until December 20, 2024. Come to simultaneously immerse yourself in the shades and sonorities of blue right in the middle of the gallery.
ProgramColeridge Taylor Perkinson (1932–2004)Selections from Blue/s Forms Sergio Muñoz Leiva, viola
Eric Ewazen (b. 1954)Harmony in Blue and Gold Ari Kiirikki, flute (Brooks Scholar ‘25) Aleksandra Labinska, violin Sergio Muñoz Leiva, viola Julianna Stratton, cello (‘26)
Miles Davis (1926–1991)All BluesHarry Warren (1893–1981)Serenade in BlueW. C. Handy (1873–1958)St. Louis Blues Rhiannon Hurst, vocals (Brooks and Fenwick Scholar ‘25) Chris Maratea, bass (‘28)

Details

October 3, 202412:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art GalleryThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Irish Traditional Music Hour in Worcester
2024-09-29 15:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Irish Traditional Music Hour in Worcester

Diarmuid Ó Meachair, Accordion & Melodeon
Sorcha Costello, Fiddle

Please join us for a wonderful afternoon of traditional Irish music with Diarmuid Ó Meachair, recipient of the Young Musician of the year award from TG4 and the newest Music Instructor in the Department of Music.
He will be joined by award winning Sorcha Costello, traditional Irish fiddle player from Tulla Co. Clare. This can’t miss concert promises to be like nothing else held on campus!

Details

September 29, 20243:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Johnny Gandelsman, violin | This Is America
2024-09-26 19:30 | PRIOR PRESENTS – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Prior Presents 2024–25

Johnny Gandelsman, violinThis Is America

With special guest artists Worcester Chamber Music Society

Buy Tickets: Thu Sep 26, 2024 @ 7:30 PM

In response to the despair, alienation, and turbulence of the COVID-19 era, Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman developed This Is America, a commissioning and recording project featuring over twenty new works for solo violin written by American and US-based artists.
This is America celebrates our country’s rich cultural tapestry and its myriad perspectives, offering a vivid counterpoint to the idea that this land can be understood through a singular, dominant point of view. Each composition in the anthology reflects on the current state of American society in a personal and intimate way, looking through an unflinching lens at universal topics like separation, loneliness, hope and love.
In addition to giving a full concert at The Prior, Gandelsman will perform briefer segments of the anthology across the city in collaboration with community partners: This Is America becomes This Is Worcester. We hope you will join us on the journey!
This program is made possible by the Heidi Brake Smith ’82 Fund for the Arts.

Pre-concert Conversation
Join us at 6:30 PM in the Ensemble Room on the 2nd Floor of The Prior for a pre-concert conversation between Johnny Gandelsman and This Is America contributing composer Èbùn Oguntola, free and open to all ticketholders.

“A violinist who can do anything…”
— Philadelphia Inquirer

Hailed as a group with imagination, style and chops, the Worcester Chamber Music Society (WCMS) took the Worcester, Massachusetts scene by storm with its initial concert in 2006. It has become a recognized cultural presence within the Greater Worcester area by presenting sold-out concerts to captivated audiences, receiving consistent critical acclaim, building new young audiences, and training rising musicians through both its Neighborhood Strings and Summer Music Camp programs.
WCMS brings world-class chamber music to intimate Greater Worcester venues. WCMS nurtures the community through a unique combination of affordable concerts, education and community engagement.

“Through the years the Chamber Music Society has crafted thoughtful, innovative and interesting programs, and its playing has become so effortless, so technically virtuosic and so musically expressive…., they have become one of the most loved and admired treasures in our musical community.”
— John Zeugner, Telegram & Gazette

Details

September 26, 20247:30 PM
Pre-concert talk with composer Èbùn Oguntola6:30 PM

Price

$45 | $35 | $25Prices are subject to change without notice

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

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