MCC Music and Theatre Departments Collaborate for Concert

Music is good for the soul – come join Middlesex Community College for the remaining performances of A World of Music fall concert series.

Internationally acclaimed pianist and educator Sonya Ovrutsky Fensome will perform works by Bela Bartok, Claude Debussy, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Ernesto Lecuona. Her performance will take place at 8 p.m. on Friday, November 22 at the MCC Concert Hall, Bedford Campus.

MCC Student Instrumentalists and Singers will perform in a recital at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, December 9 at the MCC Concert Hall in Bedford.

The Lowell Chamber Orchestra is a collaboration between MCC’s Music and Theatre Departments. Under the direction of Orlando Cela, MCC Assistant Professor, the ensemble will perform Igor Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire du Soldat.” The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 13 at the Richard & Nancy Donahue Family Academic Arts Center, 240 Central St., Lowell.

Parking is not available on site. The nearest public parking facility to MCC’s Academic Arts Center is the Early Garage, 135 Middlesex St., Lowell.

The college kicked off the fall concert series with MCC faculty members performing “Celebrating Immigrants through Music” in September and “Environmental Issues Reflected by Music” in early November.

All events are free and open to the public. For more concert information, contact Carmen Peralta, Director of A World of Music, at 781-280-3923 or peraltac@middlesex.mass.edu. Visit www.middlesex.mass.edu/transportation for directions to campus and parking information.

Visit www.youtube.com/user/MCCmusicOnline2 to watch clips of previous MCC concerts.

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