“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” –Winston Churchill: Tribute to the Royal Air Force, House of Commons August 20, 1940 Although not playing our […] Read more

Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet (1790) is the kind of work that can evoke memories of where you were the first time you encountered it. It is one of his latest pieces–from the period when, as one […] Read more

With apologies to Shakespeare and to Schubert (‘Who is Sylvia…?’) we dare ask up front a question that is probably on many minds. Zdeněk Fibich was born in 1850 (Vseborice, Bohemia)–of a Czech father and […] Read more