Classical Music

The sixth Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from André Messager and Johannes Brahms as well as a set of compositions by George and Ira Gershwin.

In 1838, ten years after the death of Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann traveled to Vienna, and while he was there he paid a visit to the graves of Schubert and Beethoven. On a whim, Schumann decided to call on Schubert’s brother, Ferdinand, who was living in Vienna, and this turned out to be perhaps the most fortuitous social call in the history of music.

The fifth Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from Antonio Vivaldi, Steven Banks, and Franz Schubert.

A scientist I know was talking about great works of literature the other day, and she said that what characterized them was the “density of brilliance.” What a wonderful phrase. And how perfect, too, for great works of music.

The fourth Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from Max Bruch, Henrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Paul Wiancko, George Frideric Handel, and Philip Glass.

The Chicago Sinfonietta Music Director looks forward to playing "the biggest instrument in the room" for one of her favorite programs: orchestral works by Florence Price, Michael Abels, and Antonín Dvořák.

Claude Debussy was a great composer, but like many other famous composers, he was also a wonderful writer.

The third Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from Charles Koechlin and Stephen Prutsman.

Everyone makes progress at his or her own pace, and what’s crucial is where you eventually arrive, not how fast you get there.

The second Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from Stephen Prutsman, Benjamin Britten, Eleanor Alberga, and Ralph Vaughn Williams.