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06/05/2026

It's the last day to subscribe and save an extra $15 on your 2026-2027 season subscription! With options starting at just three shows, you're able to enjoy music and dance throughout next year with as much flexibility as you'd like.

Check out all subscription options at musicworcester.org.

06/04/2026

For your listening enjoyment: Daniil Trifonov's recording of Bach's Contrapunctus 14.

"Bach did not live to finish The Art of Fugue’s final contrapunctus, and a number of musicians have attempted conjectural completions. For this recording, Trifonov, himself an accomplished composer, has created a seamless, stylistically respectful conclusion worthy of Bach’s genius. It reflects the extent to which he has absorbed and internalized every nook and cranny of Bach’s valedictory masterpiece." (Deutsche Grammophon - DG)

is intrigued by Bach’s attempts to base the work on the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, but observes that the result is “far more th...

06/03/2026

This program is from an 1879 concert at Mechanics Hall, performed by The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University. It lives with other programs and music in the American Antiquarian Society's library.

On June 16 at 7 pm, Everett McCorvey and members of his American Spiritual Ensemble will perform selections of this program alongside other traditional spirituals. The performance will be livestreamed for free - info and registration link at musicworcester.org. Tune in and celebrate this musical moment in history come to life.

06/02/2026

Simone Dinnerstein's latest album drops this Friday, 6/5. We'll certainly be listening on repeat - check out the first review that's come out!

"Throughout Hourglass, Dinnerstein reveals herself not merely as an interpreter of Glass but as someone capable of exposing an underlying metaphysics. Too often, discussions of his music become trapped within debates over minimalism, repetition, accessibility, or influence. This recording bypasses those exhausted categories entirely. It restores mystery to music that many listeners assume they already understand."

Although primarily known as a Bach interpreter, pianist Simone Dinnerstein and her string ensemble, Baroklyn, find a natural affinity for the music of Philip Glass, the subject of Hourglass, her first recording for the Naïve label. Yet affinity alone hardly explains the uncanny sense of inevitabili...

06/01/2026

It's Global Day of Parents, and what better way to celebrate yours than attending world-class performances together?! Wow the people you love and subscribe to Music Worcester's 2026-2027 Season. Plus, if you subscribe this week you'll save an extra $15 on your order🎶

Details at musicworcester.org.

05/29/2026

As the 2025-2026 Season closes and the 2026-2027 Season gets closer, we can't help but look back at the artists we've enjoyed this season, and the photographers that captured their them: Troy B. Thompson Photography, Cole Parks, and Wright Photo Studios .

1 - Daniil Trifonov & Orchestre National de France, at Mechanics Hall
2 - Emi Ferguson & Ruckus, at JMAC
3 - Jordi Savall, at Mechanics Hall
4 - Simone Dinnerstein, at Mechanics Hall
5 - Aaron Diehl Trio, at Prior Performing Arts Center
6 - Everett McCorvey & American Spiritual Ensemble, at Mechanics Hall
7 - Refugee Orchestra Project, at Mechanics Hall

Troy B. Thompson (2, 3, 5, 7)
Matt Wright (1, 6)
Cole Parks (4)

05/28/2026

María Guinand will serve as a guest conductor for next season's performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion by The Worcester Chorus ... a performance on the 300th anniversary of the work's premiere!

Guinand is a choral and orchestral conductor who has worked with ensembles like Seraphic Fire and Coro de Cámara and Children and Youth Choirs at Palau de la Música, and led masterclasses at conferences and colleges across the world. Enjoy this special opportunity to hear The Worcester Chorus under the baton of such a celebrated director.

Mark your calendar: single tickets go on sale June 22!

05/27/2026

Love piano? We've got just the season for you. With concert pianists like Emanuel Ax performing Mozart concertos with The Knights, and jazz pianists like Jason Moran performing Duke Ellington tributes, next season offers dazzling ways to experience what the keys have to offer. Solo, chamber, and concert works: it's the perfect time to hear something new.

Learn more about next season's offerings at musicworcester.org.

Jason Moran
Emanuel Ax- Official Page
Boris Giltburg
Adam Birnbaum

05/22/2026

Sign up to sing with the BACHtoberfest Choir for the third annual performance!

Each BACHtoberfest weekend closes out with a performance by singers from near and far, joining together to perform a selection of Bach's cantatas at Mechanics Hall. Sign up by May 31 and save up to $50 on your registration!

2026 Program:
"Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" BWV 1
"Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild" BWV 79
"Nun danket alle Gott" BWV 192

Ready for the downbeat? Sign up today at musicworcester.org.

📷Chris Shepard, director of The Worcester Chorus & Artistic Director of THE COMPLETE BACH. Photo by Matt Wright.

05/21/2026

On this day in 1972, Margaret Bonds' orchestral arrangement of "Credo" was premiered. The text of Credo was taken from William Du Bois' - activist and co-founder of the NAACP - 1904 essay that details “all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and [are] alike in soul and [in] the possibility of infinite development.” Bonds turned the text from Credo into her last major work, originally scored for soloists, choir, and piano, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

Hear Bonds' final masterpiece on November 6 at Mechanics Hall, directed by Music Worcester's 2026-2027 Artist-in-Residence Everett McCorvey.