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WORCESTER Mechanics Hall will present a Founders Day commemoration concert at 7:30 p.m. March 19 on Facebook and YouTube.
Organist and composer Leonardo Ciampa, director of music at Emanuel Lutheran Church, will perform an organ recital that includes the world premiere of three of his compositions and arrangements.
Mechanics Hall is celebrating 164 years (1857-2021). Meanwhile, 1864 is the year the hall s E. & G.G. Hook Organ was installed.
Ciampa has written a special arrangement for the occasion, 1864 Suite, of four songs that debuted in 1864 Shall We Gather at the River?, Beautiful Dreamer, Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green and Maggie.
The program also includes works by Robert Schumann and Louis-Claude Daquin, and Ciampa s Pequeña Canción, and Finale on Coronation.
WORCESTER The Mechanics Hall Concerts Plus series continues with two free recitals presented on Facebook and YouTube Feb. 24 and Feb. 28 in honor of Black History Month.
Acclaimed organist Nicole Keller will perform works by Renaissance/Baroque composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and 20th-century Black American composer Florence B. Price at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24.
Keller, who is based in Cleveland, recently visited Worcester for the first time performing a livestream concert at Trinity Lutheran Church and recording the recital in Mechanics Hall.
She has given concerts at venues ranging from as St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City and Cathédrale Notre Dame in Paris to The Kazakh National University for the Arts in Astana, Kazakhstan. She is on faculty at the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music and is the associate organist at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, and helps run its BrownBag program.