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We had a superb concert on Sunday, and I was pleased that our audience was up to over 80 people. This is still far below our normal pre-Covid audience, but significantly higher than the 50-something of our first two concerts this fall. Our lineup of concerts for 2022...

Project Chamber Music has presented concerts in the Elsinore for the last several years, and will again Friday, November 19. The force behind this is Caitlyn Lynch, who grew up in Salem and got an excellent musical start here. She is now the violist of the Aeolus...

We now have a January concert scheduled! Hammers and Bows is a piano trio: Casey Bozell, violin; John Hubbard, cello, and Chris Engbretson, piano. Their concert will be January 23. It will be at our usual time of 2:30. Their blockbuster program will include the...

At our November 14 and 28 concerts, kids are invited! We understand most of them are not yet vaccinated, but they will be welcome (masked!).

We are all set for our November 14 and 28 concerts. Loucks Auditorium is still not available for events. But the Unitarian Church has reopened to let groups like us use their sanctuary. Our reservations for those two afternoons are confirmed. So YES, join us at 2:30...

We had a fine concert yesterday. The Salem String Quartet played the dark and dramatic Quartet no. 8 by Shostakovich in honor of those who died during the pandemic, and Haydn’s “Sunrise” Quartet to look forward to a better future after Covid. In addition, the last...

Yesterday I had my second rehearsal of the last movement of the Schubert Quintet with the Salem String Quartet. Before I became president, I played in several Camerata concerts. After I became president because of the failing health of our founders Lydia Woods and...

Mark Babson has volunteered to write program notes for our concerts. He just sent me the notes for this concert, and they are well written and informative. David Gortner was writing our notes; I wrote some after he and his wife moved back to California. We are...

Yoicks! I just discovered that I had not written a blog entry reporting that our September 19 concert had to be postponed until 2022. And I didn’t update our website Next Concert page until a few days ago. I will try to do better. The Unitarian Church has closed for...