“Actually two schools confront each other: the old comprises the disciples of César Franck, and Claude Debussy may justly be considered the initiator of the new.” — Maurice Ravel, 1913 Paris, much in the news […] Read more

The third concert of our thirty-third season begins with a song by Schubert that quotes the same funeral march theme from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Third Symphony (“Eroica”) referenced in Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss, the work that concluded […] Read more

“I hope that Your Imperial Highness will continue especially to practice writing down your ideas straight away at the piano; for this purpose there should be a small table beside the piano. In this way […] Read more