MASSACHUSETTS
The Musicorda Road Company performs music by Jewish composers in two concerts as part of the 17th annual Musicorda Summer Festival, which runs through August 5. The first concert features a performance of movements from Osvaldo Golijov’s “Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” for string quartet and klezmer clarinet. The second performance includes Mendelssohn’s Trio No. 2 in C Minor. The company, a group of young artists from the Musicorda Chamber Music Institute, travels by van to area communities, performing at hospitals, libraries, museums, churches, synagogues and parks.
The National Yiddish Book Center, Hampshire College campus, 1021 West St., Amherst; July 27, 2 p.m.; free; Springfield Jewish Community Center, 1160 Dickinson St.; July 29, 2 p.m.; $3. (413-493-1530 or www.musicorda.org)
A message from our Publisher & CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism so that we can be prepared for whatever news 2025 brings.
At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse.
Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
