Selected Shorts -Live and on Zoom! Solo, duos, trios, quartets!

There’s a lot to be said for an  orchestra’s resilience and thriving in these times.

The Holyoke Civic Symphony had planned a live, full-orchestra concert, but predictably the unpredictable took over. The planned March 6 concert is now a live, chamber music concert, Selected Shorts, A Celebration - of chamber music. However, there is no less to look forward to with talented HCS musicians in performance as solo, duos, trios and quartet.

The live concert in the Leslie Phillips Forum at Holyoke Community College, with limited, safe-distanced seating, will also be on Zoom. The concert is free, with donations encouraged whenever possible. Masks are required as is proof of COVID vaccinations. Doors open at 2:15 pm for the 3 pm concert.

HCS, with its long-standing tradition of  being comprised of a wide range of ages within the orchestra and audiences, will feature two HCS students who are enrolled in the orchestra:  cellist Miranda Brunette, performing  Prelude from Suite No, 1 by J.S.Bach, and Richard Parris-Scott on trumpet performing their original composition, One-Winged Angel.    

Other compositions and performers included on the program are: Adagio by W.A. Mozart, John Vance on English horn; Romanze by Max Bruch, Erin Thom on viola; Berceuse, Op. 19 by Jean-Michel Damase, Mike Sherman on horn; Kegelstatt Trio by W. A. Mozart, Paul Dratfield on clarinet, Erin Thom on viola, and David Kidwell, piano; String Quartet No.2 in D Major by Alexander Borodin performed by Christine Singer and Nancy Hoople  on violin, Erin Thoma on viola, and Audrey Barker Plotkin on cello. Andante, Opl 64 by Alexander Tcherepnin with RIchard Sargent on tuba completes the program. HCS music director/conductor David Kidwell also will be the piano accompanist in many of the performances.