MCC Music Faculty to Honor Lowell and Inaugurate New Recital Hall

A World of Music, Middlesex Community College’s free 2018 fall concert series, begins with “A Celebration: Honoring the City of Lowell Through Music,” to be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, in MCC’s new Richard & Nancy Donahue Family Academic Arts Center Recital Hall, 240 Central St., Lowell.

This special concert will feature Middlesex Music faculty and guests performing a program focused on – and inspired by – Lowell, to inaugurate the new Recital Hall on the Lowell campus. This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and reservations are recommended. To RSVP, please visit: www.middlesex.mass.edu/honoringlowell.

“Honoring the City of Lowell Through Music” will feature faculty members Raley Beggs, guitar; Orlando Cela, flute; Susan Dill, choral conductor; and Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, piano; joined by Carley DeFranco, soprano; and Sovann Khon on tro sau, a Cambodian instrument. They will perform short works by 19th-century composer George Chadwick, who was born in Lowell. Also featured will be music from Cambodia and Latin America, reflecting the influences of those cultures on the city.

The program continues with world premieres of short pieces celebrating Lowell by MCC faculty composers Richard Chowenhill, David Janssen, Pamela Marshall and Aaron Rosenberg. Their compositions were inspired by art, history or literature from Lowell. And finally, a chorus made up of MCC students and alumni, plus the African Fellowship Choir of Lowell, will perform a few short selections.

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.

Additional events in this fall’s A World of Music free concert series include: pianist Liana Paniyeva, performing at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, in the MCC Concert Hall, Bedford campus; the Carlos Odria Ensemble, at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, in the Academic Arts Center Recital Hall, Lowell campus; “Music for Flute & Guitar,” at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, MCC Concert Hall, Bedford campus; and a Student Recital, at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10, MCC Concert Hall, Bedford campus.

For more concert information, directions to campus & parking info, or to see video clips of previous MCC concerts, visit: https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/worldofmusic

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