The great actor-director Buster Keaton was an athlete through and through. His outrageously dangerous stunts had him swinging and leaping from moving vehicles, enduring terrifying falls, and subjecting himself to...
Program Notes
Amongst the dreary doldrums of winter, we dream of spring. Composers and poets have drawn on springtime imagery to evoke feelings of rebirth and renewal....
Our November 5 program explores the musical memorialization of grief by three composers who felt compelled as survivors to tell their stories through their art: Ōshima, Shostakovich, and Britten....
Our November 4 program showcases three Central European composers: Weinberg, Laks, and Martinů. Despite their wartime experiences of persecution, exile, and internment, in their postwar music we find a wellspring...
On October 8, two timeless celestial bodies will take Guarneri Hall’s center stage: our sun and moon, long revered, mythologized, and used to mark the rhythms of human life....
Proust’s Salon: Tracing the Spiral of Time celebrates four figures, three musical and one literary, for whom the salon was an empowering space. Marcel Proust, Gabriel Fauré, Charles Koechlin and...
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