Learning
Adult Learning Opportunities
Invigorate your ear and fine-tune your listening skills at CMS. Through lectures and master classes, CMS encourages listeners of all ages and all skill levels to connect more deeply with music and musicians.
- Lectures: Inside Chamber Music with Bruce Adolphe
- Chamber Music Essentials Lectures with a roster of engaging experts from the field
- Master Class Series
Inside Chamber Music Lecture Series
Revealing the mysteries of great music is an art in itself – requiring knowledge, imagination, a poetic sensibility – not to mention whimsy and humor.
Composer and author Bruce Adolphe is a true master of this art. With a unique blend of insight and scholarship, Bruce always finds uncanny ways to enlighten and inform through his Inside Chamber Music lectures.
The music to be discussed is drawn from the Alice Tully Hall subscription series concerts. Live performances illustrate every lecture. For more information or to subscribe, please click on a lecture series below.
- Fall 2007: Music of Russian composers plays a prominent part of the 2007-08 series. In four lectures, Bruce explores the works of these Russian masters.
- Spring 2008: Our Winter Festival, American Voices 1750-2008 is a marvelous traversal of the output of America’s most creative composers. Bruce focuses on four specific musical communicators.
Chamber Music Essentials
Chamber Music Essentials offers the building blocks for appreciating chamber music. Five fall lectures by a roster of engaging experts are crafted for new listeners. Click here for more information on the lectures.
- Sunday, September 23—Getting to the Root of it all: Understanding the Essentials with Bruce Adolphe
- Sunday, September 30—_The Shape of Things with Robert Winter
- Sunday, October 7—_Four Centuries of Change… and Continuity with Miles Hoffman
- Sunday, October 14—_Modern Music: The Bold and the Beautiful with Alex Ross
- Sunday, October 21—The Art of Interpretation: How Does It Go Again? with Ara Guzelimian
Master Class Series
Observe the art of interpretation and technique as master artists share their knowledge and experience with the next generation. Master classes are free, but reservations are required. Please call 212-875-5788 or email the ticketing office to reserve space.
- Wednesday, October 10, 2007—cellist Ralph Kirshbaum
- Tuesday, December 11, 2007—Kenneth Cooper harpsichord.
- Thursday, February 14, 2008—mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe.
- Tuesday, March 18, 2008—pianist Menahem Pressler.
For more information on any of these programs, contact us at education@chambermusicsociety.org.