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Where it all began

November 7, 2011 Blog Post, Musically speaking by Boston CMS

The second program of our 29th season reminds me of many different beginnings in my own life: Haydn, as the “father of chamber music”, the Dohnányi Serenade as one I first performed on many tours […]

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Youth and Age

October 9, 2011 Blog Post, Musically speaking by Boston CMS

Our first program of the twenty-ninth BCMS season is full of unusual juxtapositions of youth and age. Mozart’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, written in 1786, is the mature work of a young composer whose […]

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Welcome to our 2011-12 season

September 2, 2011 Blog Post, Musically speaking by Boston CMS

Dear Friends: It is hard to contain the excitement we feel about the music we’ll hear, the artists we’ll experience and the ideas we’ll explore throughout the rest of the season. Our mission, to present […]

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All manner of plucked things and variation

April 1, 2011 Blog Post, Musically speaking by Boston CMS

Our April concert can probably be distinguished by its containment of ‘all manner of plucked things;’ that is, the use of the plucked sound, explicitly and implicitly, as a source of the character and variety […]

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Spiritus Hungaricus

March 7, 2011 Blog Post, Musically speaking by Boston CMS

Our March concert provides a rare opportunity to invoke the Spiritus Hungaricus–that pungent ethnic spice that enlivened and informed so much of the formal classical music from Haydn to Brahms by occasionally allowing the rowdies […]

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I greet you!

February 7, 2011 Blog Post, Musically speaking by Boston CMS

In 1822 Schubert set Rückert’s five-verse poem, Sei mir gegrüßt (I greet you), to music, and it became one of the most exquisite of his love songs. Five years later, it found its way to the […]

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Introduction: An Artistic Menagerie

January 9, 2011 Blog Post, Musically speaking by Boston CMS

In January 2010, our first BCMS Winter Festival and Forum Series presented jointly with the MIT Music and Theater Arts Faculty explored a segment of the chamber music repertoire through the lens of ideas about […]

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In the midst of things

November 14, 2010 Blog Post, Musically speaking by Boston CMS

We open the second concert of our fall series at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre by concluding the observance of Frederic Chopin’s 200th birthday begun this summer at the Mosesian Theater at the Arsenal Center in Watertown. […]

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Musically Speaking

Welcome to our 43rd Season

May 28, 2025

Necessary Inventions

May 7, 2025

drawing Inspiration

April 8, 2025

Before and After

March 3, 2025

Now and Then

February 10, 2025

Three Russian Favorites

January 6, 2025

Remembrance, Resolve, Resilience

November 5, 2024

An American Experiment?

October 10, 2024

E Pluribus Unum

September 19, 2024

Caprice, Café, and Cabaret!

April 15, 2024

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