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Unplanned but apt memorial for George Crumb at Lincoln Center
The program, set long before Crumb’s death in February, following an implicit logic from Debussy to Stravinsky through Charles Ives and ending in Crumb’s somber lament, Ancient Voices of Children.
Bach, Berio and Dvořák in the mountains of Montana
Profound musical expression shrinks against the majesty of the setting, but ends up all the more profound, in the summer chamber music series.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center musicians perform Bliss, Szymanowski, and Suk
On Thursday evening, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented its inaugural concert of the 2013-2014 Late Night Rose series. On the stage of Lincoln Center’s Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio, performers put on a delightfully curated show, featuring the works of three lesser-known Western composers: Arthur Bliss, Karol Szymanowski, and Josef Suk.
A mighty wind: Opening night at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
With so much of the chamber repertoire focused on strings and piano, it was a refreshing choice by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to open their season with some of the great works for winds.