After a short holiday break, we are continuing our concert season with more virtual concerts and events, starting today, January 24th, with the performance by Natasia Preys that won first place in a national competition. Today we also released our January 2021 newsletter with a lot of important updates regarding the concert season, Piano Festival, 2021 student awards, and more. …
Dear DGMC Members and Friends,
I hope you are enjoying our Sunday “webconcert” programs. You can connect to our concerts from our DGMC website. The most recent concert (Louise Kelly’s “What a Night, No Stars“ ) can be accessed from the homepage by scrolling down to UPCOMING EVENTS. All available concerts can be accessed by clicking the See all concerts button under UPCOMING EVENTS, or by selecting Concerts & events from the top menu of our website. Or, better yet, when you’ve finished listening to the current video, simply scroll down and access all previous performances from there. …
The Downers Grove Music Club has a very long history here in Downers Grove – it was founded in 1927. Little by little we are approaching our hundredth-year anniversary. The club has always been focused on enriching the community with music through a variety of different means.
One is to bring music to the community. We do that mainly through our concert series each year, in collaboration with the library. The other side of what we do is supporting music education, which we have expanded over the years. …
Our September 2020 newsletter is now available online, with a focus on our 2020-2021 concert season.
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First newsletter of the new concert season availableRead More »
We’re actually pretty excited about a new way of providing music to our community — streaming weekly concerts online — because it allows us to include musicians who find it difficult to perform on our Sunday concert days, and it allows us to reach a new audience beyond our local region. We already have enough finished videos to last until early November and have confirmations from quite a few more musicians who are still working on videos for us. …
