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Summer Classes

Registration online is available for my upcoming summer classes.

Chamber Music 

Tuesdays starting June 9. Click here to register.

Counts as a Music Genre course for the Language of Music Certificate.
This course celebrates chamber music other than the oft-studied string quartet and solo keyboard repertoire. We will examine the dynamics of various groupings and the evolution of form from the classical era to the explosion of new possibilities in the post-romantic era. Works include (but are not limited to): Haydn trios, Mozart string quintets, Beethoven trios (including the “Archduke”), Schubert trios, Brahms quintets and sextets, and a look at the duo sonata (keyboard and solo instrument) as a genre.

Tchaikovsky

Thursdays starting June 11. Click here to register

This course will give Tchaikovsky his due as a Russian nationalist and reveal how gracefully he navigated between the sometimes rough-hewn Slavocentrism of his contemporaries, “The Five,” and the technical demands of Western cosmopolitanism. With his profound melodic gift, Tchaikovsky also entranced audience after audience and provided us with a living soundtrack for 19th century Russia. Works studied: Swan Lake, the magnificent Pushkin operas Queen of Spades and Eugene Onegin, the supposedly autobiographical fourth and sixth symphonies, and more.

And now, just for fun, how about some musical trivia?

Trivia Question

On this 4th day of the workweek, what brothers-in-law each wrote a quartet of quartets? Show Answer
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