
By Skip Murray
This past Friday and Saturday evenings, Somerville’s own Nathaniel Abreu, fifteen year old Nathaniel Abreu, put on an amazing performance at the Concord Performing Arts Center, Concord, MA. Those of us who were lucky enough to be there, knew we had been touched by something special.
Nathaniel is one in the long line of the extraordinary artists our town of Somerville is so well known for. It is a town rife with writers, poets, painters and sculptors, and now this amazing cello player is the next to step up and stand in the center.
From the moment he sits down on stage and begins playing on this night, he leaps into another place, a place where music lives. He becomes the notes, the tempo, the timbre. He becomes the music. And joyfully, he takes us with him.
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