Our Concerts and Community Events Series.

October 10, 2025 7:30pm In Convergence, Trio Gaia explores the theme of conflict—both internal and external—and its resolution through music. In Nico Muhly’s Common Ground, the composer navigates the tension between individual voices and collective unity, highlighting dialogue between contrasting ideas. Janáček’s Kreutzer Sonata, arranged for piano trio, delves into the raw emotions of jealousy and passion, while Bartók’s Contrasts brings together folk-inspired rhythms and harmonic clashes, creating a soundscape of cultural and personal dissonance. The program culminates with Schubert’s Piano Trio in E-flat major, which at its heart exposes deep inner turmoil on an arduous path toward emotional reconciliation. This program offers a reflective parallel to today’s world, where divisions and struggles for resolution continue to shape our collective experience, and the search for unity persists despite discord.

November 02, 2025 3:30pm A century ago, the name Chaplin was as famous as that of Spielberg, Redford, or Streep. In Hollywood’s early days, he was a comedian, producer, writer, director and composer widely regarded as the greatest comic artist of films—and, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, one of the most important figures ever in motion picture history.

November 15, 2025 7:30pm Cold Chocolate, a Boston-based duo that calls itself “a genre-bending Americana band,” makes its Cape Ann debut on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m., as part of the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation’s autumn-winter-spring series of concerts, lectures, silent movies and more. The location is the landmark 1806 Meetinghouse that is Gloucester’s oldest standing church and the home of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.