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Interactive media to enhance your understanding and appreciation of chamber music.

Announcing CMS’ new initiative: streaming video from recent lectures and Master classes.

Most Recent Video:

Chamber Music Essentials


The Art of Interpretation: How Does it Go Again?


Taped October 21, 2007

with Ara Guzelimian assisted by CMS Artists Yoon Kwon, violin; Beth Guterman, viola; Priscilla Lee, cello

How do musicians make choices? Why can a piece sound so utterly different when played by different musicians? Ara Guzelimian, recently appointed Dean of The Juilliard School, reveals the endlessly varied art of interpretation through recordings spanning 100 years. Including a live performance of the Beethoven Trio for Strings, Op. 9, No. 1.

Comments will be posted upon review.

Stay tuned for

Inside Chamber Music: The Russians Are Coming!

Stravinsky: Music Cubist

With Bruce Adolphe
Assisted by CMS Artists
The Jupiter String Quartet

An explication of the innovative music of the one of the most influential composers of the 20th-century including an in-depth analysis and live performance of the his “Three Pieces for String Quartet”. This is the second in a series of four lectures on Russian composers.


Previous Videos:

The Shape of Things

With Robert Winter
Assisted by CMS artists Susie Park, violin and Raman Ramakrishnan, cello, and guest artist Vira Slywotzky, soprano

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Modern Music: The Bold and the Beautiful


Taped October 14, 2007

With Alex Ross
Assisted by CMS Artists
Yoon Kwon, violin and Gilles Vonsattel, piano

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Inside Chamber Music: The Russians Are Coming!


Tchaikovsky: Elegy for a Great Artist


Taped September 26, 2007

With Bruce Adolphe
Assisted by CMS Artists
Anne Marie McDermott, piano;
Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Priscilla Lee, cello

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Master Class with cellist Ralph Kirshbaum

Taped October 10, 2007

Accompanying materials for this lecture can be downloaded here (Adobe Acrobat required).

Click here to view the Master Class


Chamber Music Essentials Lecture—Getting to the Root of It All: Understanding the Essentials of Harmony

Taped September 23, 2007

Accompanying materials for this lecture can be downloaded here (Adobe Acrobat required):

  • Basic Harmony

  • Chamber Music Essentials Harmony.

  • Click here to view the lecture