2020 marks ProMusica’s second year of offering chamber music played by distinguished musicians during the month of June. 2019’s music selections were performed throughout the course of one whole week of live nightly concerts and there were four concerts scheduled for 2020. This year, due to COVID-19 safety concerns, the directors made the decision to shorten the season and switch up the concert format.
At 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 31st, the original opening day for this year’s festival week, ProMusica will stream a pre-recorded chamber music performance on its website, Facebook page, and YouTube channel. The New Ulm cable access television station will also air the program at 5:00 p.m. on the same day.
“We have a beautiful assortment of romantic treasures,” said Bethel Balge, who will be featured in the virtual performance along with her co-director Peter McGuire. “The music that we are performing is Grieg and Beethoven and Schuman, and I hope that this music brings some measure of comfort to people in these days of stress.”
