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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.
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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.
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The fifth Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from Antonio Vivaldi, Steven Banks, and Franz Schubert.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Claude Debussy was a great composer, but like many other famous composers, he was also a wonderful writer.
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The third Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from Charles Koechlin and Stephen Prutsman.
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Everyone makes progress at his or her own pace, and what’s crucial is where you eventually arrive, not how fast you get there.
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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.