Four Firsts
Our first concert of 2024 consists of four incomparable but lesser-known works from different times, places, generations, and genders that enjoy primacy within their creator’s catalogs. Framed by music in the sobering key of D […]
Close Encounters
The third concert of BCMS Season 41 contains three well-loved masterworks from the chamber music repertory offered in reverse chronological order. The comparison of chamber music playing to conversation based on the close interactions of […]
Return to Concord
As a title for my quintet, Ad Concordiam has overlapping meanings, as does its translation from the Latin: toward (in search of, in tribute to, aspiring to) harmony (or agreement, or unity, or…Concord)…When it comes […]
Sublime Seconds
Musical prodigies … are probably no longer so rare; but what this little man can do in extemporizing and playing at sight borders the miraculous, and I could not have believed it possible at so early […]
Welcome our new member musician
We are thrilled to welcome violinist Alyssa Wang to our roster of member musicians! Alyssa first performed with BCMS in 2019 as an Entrepreneurial Musician Fellow, and has since joined us on numerous occasions as […]
Music for a while
Our fourth concert of 2023, and seventh of the Fortieth Anniversary season, takes place within the acoustical splendor of First Church in Cambridge, Congregational in Harvard Square. We hope our program, consisting of pieces long […]
Three Trios
“There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.” –Plato On Sunday, March 12 at 3 p.m. we return to Sanders Theatre […]
Betwixt and Between
Welcome to the fifth concert of our Fortieth Season performed on February 26th, 2023 at Boston’s Jordan Hall. Our program includes three works for mixed ensembles comprised of three, four and five players. We begin […]
“What’s past is prologue.”
–The Tempest, William Shakespeare “For Mendelssohn, Beethoven was the new point of departure, and a German composer could not afford to ignore him, as Chopin and Verdi were able to do. Gradually a body of […]
Transfigured, spiritualized, and liberated
“It has become the custom to treat this most sublime of all tonal masters as a “rococo artist,” to represent his work as the epitome of the ornamental and the playful. Though it is correct […]