“What’s Past is Prologue”   –Shakespeare “After it, follow it, follow the Gleam.”  –Tennyson Our April program contains three works, including one premiere, that each owes existence to a shining example from the past. Beethoven’s […]

The Turina Piano Quartet, Beethoven’s early Viola Quintet and the later of the two Fauré Piano Quintets present three alternative yet affirmative ways in which a composer’s chamber music can project the inner life and evoke cultural atmosphere that […]

Each of the works on our February 2014 program blossoms from the iconic arrangement, albeit in different ways, of four simple tones. The Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia for Violin and Viola is a set of virtuoso variations, […]

That BCMS has performed music by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) more than any other composer may speak to the comfort and completeness it evokes fulfilling the ideals of the German Romantic spirit, whether the sense of […]

This November we present three major works that became even more notable for owing their very existence and subsequent popularity to great friendships. Mozart’s Duo in Bb for Violin and Viola K. 424 (1783) is […]

“…[the] first shall be last; and the last shall be first.” Matthew 19:30” Our thirty-first BCMS season begins with the programming of three works that are among the first and lasts of their kind by […]

Our Sanders Theatre Series ends this spring featuring the collaboration of two fine cellists who have each founded and formed superb chamber music series in two of the most cosmopolitan and international cities in the […]

Our April Sanders concert promises thrills and chills unlike any heard recently at BCMS. We open with the kind of music that might have greeted us at the opening of a great outdoor Renaissance Festival, […]

[Sir Thomas] More is a man of angel’s wit and singular learning; I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and affability? And as time requireth, a man of […]