Dear Friends: It is hard to contain the excitement we feel about the music we’ll hear, the artists we’ll experience and the ideas we’ll explore throughout the rest of the season. Our mission, to present […]

Our April concert can probably be distinguished by its containment of ‘all manner of plucked things;’ that is, the use of the plucked sound, explicitly and implicitly, as a source of the character and variety […]

Our March concert provides a rare opportunity to invoke the Spiritus Hungaricus–that pungent ethnic spice that enlivened and informed so much of the formal classical music from Haydn to Brahms by occasionally allowing the rowdies […]

In 1822 Schubert set Rückert’s five-verse poem, Sei mir gegrüßt (I greet you), to music, and it became one of the most exquisite of his love songs. Five years later, it found its way to the […]

In January 2010, our first BCMS Winter Festival and Forum Series presented jointly with the MIT Music and Theater Arts Faculty explored a segment of the chamber music repertoire through the lens of ideas about […]

We open the second concert of our fall series at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre by concluding the observance of Frederic Chopin’s 200th birthday begun this summer at the Mosesian Theater at the Arsenal Center in Watertown. […]