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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.” –W.H. Auden Our fourth concert of 2023, and seventh of the Fortieth Anniversary season, takes place within the acoustical splendor of First Church in Cambridge, […]

“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 […]

–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 […]

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10 (1895)Antonín Dvořák String Quintet in G Major, Op. 77 (1875, revised 1888) Under the tutelage of composer Charles Villiers Stanford,  [Samuel Coleridge Taylor] enthusiastically turned to […]

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delights were born of my deepest griefs. Franz Schubert There is so much talk about music, and yet so little is said. […]

In spite of wide divergencies of personal style, there is a common factor in the music, say of Schumann and Weber. And this common factor is nationality. Ralph Vaughan Williams, from National Music, Bryn Mawr […]