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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.

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 season’s repertoire.

2010-2011 Season: Over the course of the season, Bruce will take you on an in-depth exploration of Bach’s counterpoint and Brahms’ creative genius.

Fall Season:

  • On September 29, selections from Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846-893 are the focus.
  • Selections from Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are discussed on October 6.
  • Bruce digs deeper into Bach’s Concerto in A minor for Violin, Strings, and Continuo, BWV 1041 on October 13.
  • The lecture on October 20 focuses on classical counterpoint from Bach to Mozart, featuring Mozart’s Trio in E-flat major for Violin, Viola, and Cello, K. 563.

Spring Season:

  • The Winter Festival features the music of Brahms, and Bruce opens the Spring ICM season with a lecture on the Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87 on January 26.
  • Bruce discusses Brahms’ String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18 on February 2.
  • Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 are the focus of the lecture on February 9.
  • The season closes on February 16 with a lecture on Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115.

Order the Full, Fall, or Spring series, or buy tickets to individual lectures.

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.

For more information on any of these programs, contact us at education@chambermusicsociety.org.