This season the Society will present six rather than the traditional five concerts. Included in the series are the thirteen member New York Chamber…

Next Monday is Columbus Day and we look at some of the music that the Admiral of the Ocean Sea and his crew might have heard in Palos de la Frontera in…

We begin this week with an hour of music from the Italian Renaissance and Baroque -- from the pageantry of the cathedral music of Gabrieli and Monteverdi…

Eighty years ago -- almost to the day -- Porgy and Bess went on the road for a try-out prior to opening in New York in October, 1935. The initial…

Antonio Vivaldi got his first opportunity to publish his music in 1712 with his concerto collection, l'Estro Armonico. Johann Sebastian Bach got ahold of…

J.S. Bach's Two-part Inventions demonstrate some of the simplest, most elegant counterpoint ever written.These miniatures -- most take about a minute --…

It doesn't happen often in the Classical world, but once in a while a piece of music gets re-arranged (or metamorphosed) into a version so successful that…

It's an All-Baroque program on Mozart's Attic this week. We'll look at music from a number of places in western Europe written by composers who were…

The program begins this week with music of Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most influential composers of the last century. He, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, and…

Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June, 1941, and his armies raced eastward like a juggernaut until the Red Army and the Russian winter stalled…