Caprice, Café, and Cabaret!

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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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