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Fall Series: Father, Guide, and Friend: Quartets of Haydn and Mozart

Mozart dedicated six string quartets to Haydn, and called them "the fruit of a long and laborious study." He asked Haydn to receive these six "children" kindly, as a father, guide, and friend. What did Mozart inherit from Haydn? How are the two composers different? Join Bruce Adolphe for an in depth look at two quartets by each composer.

Spring Series: The Feeling Itself: The music of Debussy and two Americans in Paris

Claude Debussy wrote that music "is not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself." His new musical grammar revolutionized music and made France the center of the musical world in the early twentieth century.  Both George Gershwin and Aaron Copland felt the magnetic pull toward this cultural center, and became for a time Americans in Paris. Is the music of these two American icons in any way....French? We shall see.

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