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Family Programs
Kids are always welcome at the Chamber Music Society. From concerts and events just for kids and their grown ups to a special subscription package for the whole family, we make it easy to enjoy chamber music together.
Meet The Music!
For Families with Kids Aged 6-10 with your zany and brainy host, Bruce Adolphe.
In this upbeat three-concert series, kids learn about music and hear world-class musicians who love to play for an audience of families. Count on Meet The Music! to provide you and your family with a good time and a great value.
Subscribe now to the 2007-08 season of Meet The Music!, Exploring America. No passport required!
At Merkin Concert Hall every child gets an up-close-and-personal perspective. Merkin Concert Hall is located at 129 West 67th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam. Please be aware that Merkin concert hall is not on the Lincoln Center campus.
Family Special—Composers Are Us!
Did you ever wonder what it’s like to be a composer? Here’s your chance to find out in an ears-on, hands-on, interactive, team effort! Create a fun and fantastic musical story with composer Bruce Adolphe in a special event for kids and their growun-ups. Together, you and Bruce and a team of super-cool improvisers will dream up a story, figure out tunes for the characters, and create a one-of-a-kind musical extravaganza. After we make up the story and music together, the musicains will perform your piece from start to finish. Warm up your ears and brains and get read for a true musical adventure like you’ve never had before!
Sunday, November 18 at 1 PM or 3 PM at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse.
NEW! Family Fridays
Time after time we hear it—adults who love classical music were introduced to it through their parents. Now, we make it it possible for your family to enjoy our subscription concerts together. It’s easy: Mom and Dad—or Grandma and Grandpa, Aunt and Uncle, or any other parental units—purchase two regular Friday evening concerts at the special subscription price of $75, and all the kids’ tickets are FREE. We’ll seat you with other families, and provide additional bonuses. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?! Call us at 212-875-5788 or drop us an email at info@chambermusicsociety.org, and we’ll tell you more.
A Message from Bruce Adolphe (aka Inspector Pulse)
Isn’t music great? Can you imagine life without any music at all? What if there were T.V. talk shows, basketball, and French fries, but no music? If that were the case, we’d have to invent music or go crazy.
Music is deeper and richer than words, and can reach emotional places inside us that nothing else can touch. A lot of music you hear on the radio has words, and music in the movies and on T.V. is mostly in the background, kind of like carpeting in a room. For me, the best musical experiences are listening to and playing pieces composed without words: pure music, rich in detail, emotionally charged and full of exciting sound-textures.
Chamber music is the most intimate kind of music. Intimate means personal, close, emotionally revealing and honest. In chamber music, each player plays alone and yet together with others. How can you play alone and yet together? It’s very much like basketball where the players have their own special and unique roles, and yet teamwork is vital at every moment. But unlike sports where the players are trying to win against opponents, in chamber music there is nothing to work against and everything to work for. The goal is to bring to life a work of musical art.
If you have any questions about music, drop us a line at info@chambermusicsociety.org. After all, the chamber music experience only gets better the more you get to know it, just like with anything worthwhile.
-Bruce Adolphe