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Unsung hero of chamber music
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By Robert Friedman Harry Glass, 84, has been called a “true impresario” as well as the “chief cook and bottle-washer” who, for the past 22 years, has made possible the highly regarded Sundays at Three chamber music concerts in Columbia. The concerts have featured many of the region’s top musicians — including members of the Baltimore Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestras, faculty from the Peabody Conservatory and distinguished local teachers. They have been moving and soothing Sunday afternoon audiences at the Christ Episcopal Church on Oakland Mills Road for nearly three decades. In 2001, Glass took on the non-salaried role as vice president of the series. Now managing director and president, he hires musicians for the events, publicizes the concerts, and even opens church doors, sets up chairs, and locks up afterwards. “I love the music. Basically, I’m a manager, and get a lot of satisfaction out of helping the institution do what it does,” Glass said. In his earlier years, he worked in planning and organizing in the healthcare field, which included, among other stints, managing at George Washington University Hospital in D.C., health planning in the Nixon and Carter administrations, and a three-year stint as director at the Boston University Health Policy Institute. The Boston native moved to Columbia in 1971, just four years after the new planned community opened to residents. Glass has remained here for more than a half century because he loves the people here, he said. “This has been a very diverse, friendly community of people of all ages who take
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Harry Glass, impresario of the county’s Sundays at Three chamber music series, has run the program for more than two decades, attracting top-notch musicians from around the area for popular, affordable concerts.
advantage of the leisure and other activities in the community,” Glass said.
Popular concert series Many locals adore the popular chamber music series. Thea Jones, 82, of Columbia, has been a Sundays at Three concertgoer since 2013, when she and husband, Bob, now 93, became subscribers. “We hear a wonderful variety of programs — chamber music groups, soloists,
brass players, violinists — all played by excellent professional musicians. We would not hear such unique music at such a high level in any other place in the area,” said the retired educator. The chamber music concerts date back to 1994, when Daniel Malkin, a 30-year-old cellist and teacher, organized the Sunday events at the church. Malkin planned the
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