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| Unless otherwise noted, the venue for
our concerts is the Ashburnham Community Church, 84 Main Street
(Rte. 12) at the corner of Chapel Street, in Ashburnham, MA. (GPS: 42.6362, -71.9129) The entrance, wheelchair accessible
by ramp, is on the north side of the building.
The room is spacious, bright, and acoustically
clean, well-suited to concerts of this nature because it allows the individual
qualities of the different piano voices to be clearly heard. And they are
very
different as we progress through the collection, whether through time or
by maker or city. Our artists choose a piano appropriate to the program
material they are presenting, allowing the audience to hear the selection
on an instrument familiar to the period, much as an audience, or the composer,
would have heard it at the time. |
| Earlier in the afternoon, before the doors
are opened to the public, the performers find the atmosphere of the room
conducive to preparing themselves for the concert to follow. |
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Ishmael and Vita Wallace,
the Orfeo Duo, before the concert.
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| The scale of the room is small enough,
comfortably seating about 150, with a small amount of overflow seating
available in the balcony, that many of our artists also speak with the
audience, illuminating the pieces about to be played, or the life of the
composer, or simply sharing a bit of themselves.
Stephen Porter speaking
to the audience.
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Stephen Porter and Katherine
Kayaian in concert.
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Of course, what we have come
to hear is the performance, but you may have noticed the microphone stands
there in the front. All of our performances are also recorded by Christopher
Greenleaf and submitted to Public Radio's Performance
Today, and some have been shared with listeners around the world.
Ishmael and Vita Wallace,
the Orfeo Duo, in concert.
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The Ashburnham Community Church is easy
to find. There is very limited parking on the street, and although you
may easily drop off passengers within just a few feet of the door, we ask
that you fully respect the parking reserved for the handicapped. There
is a small parking lot of the west side of the Community Church, and a
larger parking lot immediately across the street on the east side of Saint
Denis R.C. Church in which you are welcome to park. Doors open to the public
about 3:30 in the afternoon, one half hour before the concert.
For more detailed directions on reaching
Ashburnham from other parts of the state, please click
here. |
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