Observing Beethoven’s birthday at the end of an era Each year about this time BCMS has the privilege of playing on or about the actual date of Beethoven’s birth. It always falls near the end […]

Our November concert offers important works by each of the pillars of Viennese Classical Style, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. As we know, they actually knew one another and gained both instruction and inspiration from each […]

Welcome again, to our 30th Anniversary Season. Our October program precedes each of the two amazing Brahms String Sextets with two shorter works for strings that coincidentally share the same title, Capriccio. What’s in a […]

Our final concert of the 2011-2012 season allows us the opportunity once again to say ‘thank you’ for your kind and generous support as we close out one theme (Piano Quintets–various) and anticipate our Hamel […]

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” –Winston Churchill: Tribute to the Royal Air Force, House of Commons August 20, 1940 Although not playing our […]

Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet (1790) is the kind of work that can evoke memories of where you were the first time you encountered it. It is one of his latest pieces–from the period when, as one […]

With apologies to Shakespeare and to Schubert (‘Who is Sylvia…?’) we dare ask up front a question that is probably on many minds. Zdeněk Fibich was born in 1850 (Vseborice, Bohemia)–of a Czech father and […]

Each January since 2010 we have had the privilege of exploring topics in forum and concert that expand the contexts in which we appreciate the great chamber music literature. With support from MIT Music and […]

Our December concert is comprised of familiar pieces built on memorable themes and many curious and wonderful connections. Two of our composers, Bach and Handel, were revered by everybody’s ‘composer of the month,’ Ludwig van […]

The second program of our 29th season reminds me of many different beginnings in my own life: Haydn, as the “father of chamber music”, the Dohnányi Serenade as one I first performed on many tours […]