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 […]

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 […]

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, […]