MCC’s ‘World of Music’ to Host Faculty & Alum Online Concert

In collaboration with Dracut Arts, Middlesex Community College will host a faculty and alum performance as part of the Fall 2023 “A World of Music” concert series. The concert will be held online at 4 p.m. on Saturday, November 11, featuring MCC music faculty members and alum Nathaniel Abreu, cellist.

“Everyone I’ve worked with at MCC has been nothing but supportive and the community has provided me so many outlets to share my playing, as well as meet truly enthusiastic people from all over,” Abreu said. “I always hope to aid the Music department in continuing the great work they’ve been doing, bringing a variety of music to a larger audience.”

Along with Abreu, MCC’s Chair of Music Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, pianist, and music faculty members Orlando Cela, flutist, and Raley Beggs, guitarist, will perform a colorful program of music from Europe, the United States, Latin America and South Africa.

“We are delighted to be collaborating with Dracut Arts for their November Arts Saturday for an exciting and varied program,” Rodríguez-Peralta said. “This performance was recorded in the Donahue Family Academic Arts Center in Lowell. We had such fun putting this together!”

Works by Cecil Chaminade, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Vincent Perischetti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach, David Popper, Astor Piazzolla, and Samuel Coleridge Taylor will be featured.

“Dracut Arts looks forward to featuring ‘A World of Music’ concert at our November Arts Saturday,” said Diane McGary, President, Board of Directors for Dracut Arts. “It is always a joy to find phenomenal artists in the Greater Dracut Area. This concert truly features world music, showcasing both very well-known and lesser-known compositions, some older pieces and some new 20th & 21st century works. What a pleasure to listen to and see these musicians perform!”

Visit www.dracutarts.com/arts-saturdays/ to register for the event and watch the concert on its premiere date.

Other performances for “A World of Music” this semester include a Student Recital at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, December 4 at MCC’s Bedford Campus Concert Hall and a concert by the LCO at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 9 at MCC’s Academic Arts Center.

Previous performances this season included the Lowell Chamber Orchestra, Guitar Music from South Africa, Literature through Music by MCC faculty members at the Lowell City of Learning Festival, and Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band.

All concerts are free and open to the public. Visit www.middlesex.mass.edu/worldofmusic/ for more information.