For our first Winter concert of BCMS Season 42 we offer three works whose creators shared coincidences beyond nationality, precocity, and studies with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov; had teaching careers at and leadership positions of important institutions […]
“What aged war wouldst thou awake in me, Thou subtle world-old bitter Celtic voice? Thy sombre dance and harshness as of the sea Leap in my blood. Some sleeping memory Mutters a sullen music, answering […]
Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we […]
Welcome to BCMS Season 42 and the full return of our series to Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. We mark this return with two favorites from the standard literature as well as one made possible in […]
We must at all costs bar the door of the Institut [de France] against a man capable of such atrocities; they should be put next to the cubist pictures. Camille Saint-SaënsNectoux, Jean-Michel (1991). Gabriel Fauré, […]
By projecting his mind into areas of music that would not be totally explored for decades to come, Beethoven foresaw not only solutions (the lines of his projection followed by Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, etc.), but […]
My work in composition means not revolution but evolution, built on the classics which must be the foundation of all musical composition. My compositions are built on classical lines; all real music must be. I […]
There are serenades out of which symphonies or divertimenti may easily be made, merely by omitting movements, in the one case, or by reducing the number of performers, in the other. There is no reason […]
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 […]
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 […]
