Music@Menlo | Encounters

Encounter I: Bach Ascending/Beethoven Launched, 1710–1800

Through such luminaries as Vivaldi, Handel, and Bach, the early eighteenth century saw the creation of music of unprecedented splendor and complexity. By the century’s end, a new vanguard of composers—Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven—had ...

Encounter II: Schubert’s Winterreise and Classical Twilight, 1820–1830

Winterreise, composed over roughly the final year and a half of Schubert’s life, not only stands as the crowning achievement of the composer’s oeuvre of lieder, it ranks among the greatest triumphs of the Western canon ...

Encounter III: Romantic Revolution/Moscow to Montmartre, 1840–1900

Celebrated scholar and Mendelssohn biographer R. Larry Todd makes his eagerly anticipated return to Music@Menlo to lead this summer’s third Encounter, examining two fertile decades of European chamber music—the 1840s and 1890s. He will ...

Encounter IV: The Roaring Twenties/Music at the Millennium, 1920–2000

The first commercial radio appeared in 1920, and by 1929 there were twelve million families tuning in daily and going to the movies weekly. Some one hundred million phonograph records were sold in 1927, ...

Encounter Series

Encounter I: Bach Ascending/Beethoven Launched, 1710–1800

Encounter II: Schubert’s Winterreise and Classical Twilight, 1820–1830

Encounter III: Romantic Revolution/Moscow to Montmartre, 1840–1900

Encounter IV: The Roaring Twenties/Music at the Millennium, 1920–2000