They sat in black folding chairs, leaned over second and third-floor balconies and sprawled their bodies, bags and books on the floor to listen.
Nearly 150 people welcomed members of the Omaha Chamber Music Society Thursday as they performed the first concert in the monthly “Music as Medicine” series in the Durham Outpatient Center West Atrium.
Musicians Lynn Lawson (flute), Michele Favero-Kluge (piano), and Thomas Kluge (viola) entertained the crowd of students, current and retired faculty members, hospital and university staff members, and patients and their families with musical scores by Frank Bridge, Heinrich Johann Franz von Biber, Francois Devienne, Robert Muczynski and Arthur Foote.
The lunch hour concerts are the third Thursday of each month through May. The next performance, also a classical performance by the Omaha Chamber Music Society, is set for Nov. 18.
UNMC, The Nebraska Medical Center, University Medical Associates and the UNMC Center for Continuing Education sponsor the series.
“It lifted the spirit,” said John Benson Jr., M.D., professor of internal medicine at UNMC, who initiated the idea for the “Music as Medicine” series.