Lexington Resident Turns His Living Room Into Music Venue
In memory of his wife Virginia, Lexington resident Robert Schwartz brings intimacy and accessibility to the music scene. �Partly in honor of my wife and to continue the thread I wanted to start a series where people locally can come and hear live music not at symphony hall, but in an intimate venue,� said Schwartz, of Patterson Road. During the past year, Schwartz turned his home into a 40-seat concert venue bringing three professional music performances to Lexington. He is preparing for another set of performances, which he calls Musical Chairs, to start this fall. The point of the smaller venue is to give audience members the chance to get up close and personal, according to Schwartz. �One of the advantages of a house concert is it�s the way it was done during the Renaissance,� said Sheila Beardslee-Bosworth, whose band Concordia Consort plays Renaissance-era music. �In a house concert, everybody�s sitting there in an informal setting, and even though we treat it as a pro...