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Market Street Music’s Thursday Noontimes return starting March 3 — weekly 30-minute musical breaks that will surely give a lift to your day!
From choral to chamber music; solo organ and accordion performances; and jazz favorites, Thursday Noontime Concerts this month have something for everyone!
All concerts are free admission, although donations are welcome & appreciated.
All concert-goers must be masked and show proof of full vaccination at the door to be admitted.
CENTER CITY CHORALE: “A MISCELLANEOUS MASS” – March 3
Join the lively singers of this “downtown choir” as they sing a choral mass made up of bits and pieces of masses by various composers across the ages. There will be a choral sermon as well, for as we know, there’s always a sermon!
TIGER LILY TRIO – March 10
The virtuosic University of Delaware ensemble (Christopher Nichols, clarinet; Eileen Grycky, flute; Christine Delbeau, piano) performs new chamber music for woodwinds and piano.
DAVID SCHELAT, ORGANIST – March 17
The colorful and celebrated Gabriel Kney organ sings forth again in a program of exciting and uncommon music. J. S. Bach’s monumental Prelude in E Flat Major will be heard along with music of David Schelat and Florence Price.
DALLAS VIETTY, ACCORDION – March 24
From Baroque harpsichord music, effervescent Parisian accordion waltzes, genius tango arrangements that Astor Piazzolla wrote for himself to play, to Duke Ellington ballads; this concert will relax, delight, and inspire with beauty, playfulness, and passion.
JONATHAN WHITNEY TRIO – March 31
Join Jonathan Whitney, winner of a 2020 Delaware Division of the Arts Established Artist Fellowship for Jazz Composition as he and his trio explore the modern American songbook, music from his debut album “Life’s Dimensions,” and other jazz favorites.