“At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the National Virtual Medical Orchestra, founded in May 2020 and consisting of medical professionals from across the country … will be performing their final virtual concert of the year as part of ‘Live With Carnegie Hall: Music is Medicine,’ ” writes Evan Moore in Wednesday’s (12/16) Chicago Sun-Times. “The NVMO will be performing the Pas de Deux from Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker.’ … The group … formed [during] the pandemic … includes about 75 members, [who] rehearse individually during a two-week period, record their parts via smartphones and send them to NVMO music director/conductor John Masko, who then mixes it all together.… ‘The opportunity to perform with Carnegie Hall is a testament to our players’ devotion, even amid one of the most stressful years of their professional careers,’ said Masko in a statement.… Bettina Cheung, a Northwestern University medical student who plays the French horn [and is] co-founder of the Northwestern Medical Orchestra, says, ‘I think now more than ever, everyone just wants a little spark of joy, and making videos with the NVMO brought that in a regular fashion to a lot of medical workers, medical students, and the people that we share them with.’ ”
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