Beyond the Notes continues with virtual mini series
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While concert venues remain closed, Concord native and violinist Sarah Whitney is committed to sustaining the community’s need for live music through her concert series, Beyond the Notes.
With the launch of a new COVID-19 friendly series in the 2020 season called Beyond the Notes Minis, Beyond the Notes has remained an integral and unifying concert experience in the community. The next concert will be presented virtually, pairing music with art from Powers Gallery and feature a guest appearance and live Q&A with NYC composer Jessica Meyer.
Beyond the Notes Minis is a live mini-concert series that highlights the works of Black composers and supports social justice. 25% of all proceeds are donated to an organization that supports social justice. Since starting this series in June, Beyond the Notes has supported Direct Relief, Common Cause, The Voter Participation Center, Leadership Conference Education Fund, So
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Dec. 17, 2020
“In Seven Days”; Kirill Gerstein, piano (Myrios)
The composer Thomas Adès and the pianist Kirill Gerstein’s artistically fruitful friendship has given us two essential albums this year: the premiere recording of Mr. Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, featuring Mr. Gerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon); and this one, which includes a solo arrangement of the harrowing and slippery Berceuse from Mr. Adès’s opera “The Exterminating Angel.”