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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 14Concert Program I: London
For some two hundred years following the death of Henry Purcell, England failed to produce a composer of international merit. The German critic Oscar A. H. Schmitz famously derided the nation as Das Land ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 17Concert Program II: Paris
No city captivates the imagination quite like Paris. For generations, the world’s leading artists, writers, and thinkers—to say nothing of its young lovers and starry-eyed dreamers—have flocked to La Ville Lumière. Her splendor has ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 21Concert Program III: St. Petersburg
Built in 1703 by Peter the Great to be a cosmopolitan, Western-style metropolis, St. Petersburg emerged over subsequent decades as the center of Russian musical culture. It was in St. Petersburg that Mikhail Glinka, ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 25buy tickets: Jul 26Concert Program IV: Leipzig
When Georg Philipp Telemann turned down the post of Leipzig Music Director and Cantor, the city begrudgingly offered the position to its second choice: Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach’s years in Leipzig produced some of ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 28buy tickets: Jul 29Concert Program V: Berlin
Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Berlin emerged and then handily secured its status as one of Europe’s most vital cultural centers. It was to Berlin that the aging J. S. Bach traveled in ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 31Concert Program VI: Budapest
Western composers from Haydn and Mozart to Brahms were irresistibly drawn to the folk music of Central Europe, infusing some of their most popular works with its infectious spirit. With Hungarian music’s own nationalist ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Aug 2buy tickets: Aug 4Concert Program VII: Vienna
The 2018 season’s final Concert Program celebrates Vienna—from the Classical era into the twentieth century, the indisputable capital of the Western musical world. It was in Vienna that the Salzburg-born wunderkind Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...