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06/17/2026

Happy birthday to Igor Stravinsky, one of the pivotal composers of the 20th century, born in Russia on this day in 1882.

Stravinsky's unfathomable six-decade career took him from Russia to France to America, finding him experimenting with modernism, neoclassicism, serialism, popular and folk music idioms, and much more.

Petrushka, the second of the composer's three early ballets for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, began as a concert piece for piano and orchestra before Diaghilev persuaded Stravinsky to expand it into a stage work.

This 2019 Rose Studio performance features Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, piano.

06/16/2026

Heitor Villa-Lobos composed his nine Bachianas Brasileiras—a series of works paying homage to J. S. Bach through the lens of Brazilian music—between 1930 and 1945.

Scored for soprano and an 8-piece cello choir, No. 5 features two movements: Aria (Cantilena), with text by Ruth Valadares Corrêa, and Dança (Martelo), with text by Manuel Bandeira. The English translation reads as follows:

"In the evening, a dreamy, pretty cloud, slow and transparent, covers outer space with pink. In the infinite the moon rises sweetly, beautifying the evening, like a friendly girl who prepares herself and dreamily makes the evening beautiful. A soul anxious to be pretty shouts to the sky, the land, all of Nature. The birds silence themselves to her complaints, and the sea reflects all of Her wealth. The gentle light of the moon now awakens the cruel saudade that laughs and cries. In the evening, a dreamy, pretty cloud, slow and transparent, covers outer space with pink."

This 2017 Alice Tully Hall performance features Leah Crocetto, soprano, with cellists Carter Brey, Timothy Eddy, Kevin Mills, Yi Qun Xu, Sumire Kudo, James Jeonghwan Kim, Richard Aaron, and Rafael Figueroa.

Hear another Villa-Lobos piece live on Summer Evenings V on Tuesday, July 21—limited tickets still available! Link in bio

06/15/2026

Happy birthday to Edvard Grieg, beloved Norwegian composer and pianist, born in Bergen on this day in 1843.

He published his lively and expressive piano miniature “Til Foråret” (“To Spring”) in his third book of Lyric Pieces, Op. 43, in 1886. Later, he chose to record the work himself as one of a handful of recordings he made of his own pieces in the early 1900s.

This 2025 Rose Studio performance features Juho Pohjonen, piano.

06/12/2026

Felix Mendelssohn completed his Piano Quartet in C minor in October 1822 at the age of 13, during a family holiday in Switzerland. It became his first published work.

This 2016 Alice Tully Hall performance features Wu Qian, piano; Chad Hoopes, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; and Gary Hoffman, cello.

Hear this piece on Summer Evenings III concert on Tuesday, July 14. Tickets are sold-out, but limited seats for other shows are still available!

06/11/2026

This week’s issue of our newsletter, The Art of Listening, is out today!

In this installment, we examine the life and work of Alexander Borodin, Russian organic chemist and composer.

Made famous posthumously, Borodin’s Second String Quartet (1881) is a testament to his brilliant melodic writing. Elements of this iconic work made their ways into pop culture through Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral arrangement of the third movement and Robert Wright and George Forrest’s music for the 1953 Broadway musical Kismet.

Plus: a playlist, reading recommendations, CMS performance and lecture videos, and more!

Read and subscribe to the Art of Listening at the link in our bio.

🎥 This 2015 CMS performance features Danbi Um and Sean Lee on violin, Paul Neubauer on viola, and CMS Co-Artistic Director David Finckel on cello.

06/08/2026

Edward MacDowell’s best known work is Woodland Sketches, a set of ten piano works that the late-19th-century American composer wrote during a summer sojourn in New Hampshire.

The opening piece, “To A Wild Rose,” takes inspiration from the natural world, and interpolates elements from Native American songs and Scottish dance music. It has endured through various choral and chamber arrangements, as well as pop and jazz cover versions, in the 130 years since its writing.

This 2025 Alice Tully Hall performance features Michael Stephen Brown on piano. Watch the full performance on our YouTube channel.

06/02/2026

Darius Milhaud’s ballet score La création du monde (The Creation of the World) was strongly influenced by the 20th-century French composer’s love of American jazz music. The piece features rhythmic and harmonic elements inspired by the performers Milhaud heard while visiting Harlem in the early 1920s. The version heard here is Milhaud's chamber arrangement for piano and string quartet.

This 2022 CMS performance features pianist Zhu Wang and the Orion String Quartet (Todd Phillips, violin; Daniel Phillips, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; and Timothy Eddy, cello).

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