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Noah on KMUZ About Our New Season
Cellist and Camerata board president Noah Seitz was interviewed Sept. 18 on KMUZ radio. He talked about the upcoming season, this weekend's concert featuring the Thunderegg Consort, and other ensembles performing in our 25-26 season. If you'd like to hear...
September 16, 2025
Our audience has not rebounded after Covid. People are gradually finding their way back, but not to the audience numbers we were used to. We regret that budget cuts at the Salem Public Library keep us out of our home in Loucks Auditorium. But the Unitarian...
December 1st, 2021
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...
November 12th, 2021
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...
November 9th, 2021
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...
November 3rd, 2021
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!).
October 26th, 2021
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...
October 18th, 2021
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...
October 11th, 2021
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...