Music and dance in virtual performance Wednesday night

Virtual program includes 100 professional dancers will perform in New York City, set to music from “West Side Story.”

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The Greencastle Virtual Music Festival continues this week with a mostly-classical program, including music by Schubert performed by DePauw University emeritus professors pianist Claude Cymerman and cellist Eric Edberg.

The performance will also include the early-music trio The Vivaldi Project performing music by Campioni and J.C. Bach, accompanied by images from Indiana nature photographer Craig Nyquist, and the project’s cellist Stephanie Vial performing a Bach Sarabande with dancer Paige Whitley-Bauguess. The program will conclude with 10 professional dancers performing in New York City, set to music from “West Side Story.”

Festival founder and host Eric Edberg said he is fascinated by the way musicians have joined with photographers and videographers in “acts of COVID creativity.”

“Without the pandemic,” Edberg said, “I can’t imagine Claude and I performing in Gobin to four cameras and four microphones, rather than a live audience. Or Allison spending hours learning video editing and combining her husband’s nature photography with existing videos of her trio. Stephanie and Paige working out how to film Paige dancing to Stephanie playing in another location. Or 10 top professional dancers being filmed solo on the streets of NYC to create an amazing video. While we all miss live concerts, some amazing stuff has emerged.”

The pre-recorded 45-minute concert goes “live” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and can be heard and seen:

-- In a watch party with post-concert discussion hosted by Eric Edberg at http://watch.gvmf.live

-- At facebook.com/greencastlevirtualmusic

-- At greencastlemusic.org.

All previous weekly programs are available at http://playlist.gvmf.live.

The Greencastle Virtual Music Festival programs are made possible by the Greencastle Summer Music Festival family of donors and the GSMF endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation, the Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the DePauw Performing Arts Series, the Inn at DePauw, the people of Gobin Church, and in partnership with the Sunny Side concert series.

Contributions, which provide income for musicians impacted by the pandemic shutdown of live performances, can be made at greencastlemusic.org/donate.