For us at BCMS the performance of the great chamber music literature is one of those miracles that arise from the joy of intimacy and focus. Many of you ask who leads, how we know […]

Mozart, Harbison and Schumann   The cultivated musician may study a Madonna by Raphael, the painter a symphony by Mozart, with equal advantage.   —Robert Schumann, Journal of Poetry and Thought We conclude our season […]

Our April concert features flights of fantasy—famous duos, and a trio, that are the products of special relationships between prominent pairs and peers: players with composers, composer and composer, and player with player. The duos […]

In March we return to Sanders and to spring. Our program features works by Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn from the heart of the Romantic tradition, and the premiere of the gift from our BCMS Commissioning […]

“I am told that there is no popular demand for good music in America. That is not so. Every concert in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago or Washington, and in most other cities, no doubt, […]

“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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

“I take the liberty of sending to Your Electoral Highness various musical pieces… composed by my dear pupil Beethoven, who has been graciously entrusted to me. I flatter myself that these pieces will be kindly […]