You Asked. CMS Delivered!
In our recent reader survey, classical music came up as one of the top things Vero Minute readers want more of. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has just the thing.
CMS recently launched The Art of Listening, an essay series bringing some of the world's best writers on music, including Paul Griffiths, longtime chief classical critic of The New York Times, and Jan Swafford, Beethoven's biographer, to tell the stories behind the pieces we hear in concert.
A few to start with: how Mozart came to marry the younger sister of the woman who turned him down here, how a 20-year-old Mendelssohn brought a forgotten Bach masterpiece back to life here, and what it was like to hear music in the 18th century here, when it was played in people's homes, not concert halls.
If you're coming to the February concert, read Griffiths on the teachers who shaped the young Beethoven first here. Each essay is a quick, engaging read, written for curious newcomers and experts alike.
The full collection is at chambermusicsociety.substack.com.
Better still, CMS is returning for season after a sold-out run at Trinity Episcopal last year, and moves its three 2027 concerts to the Community Church of Vero Beach, the sanctuary on 23rd Street where its Vero story began, and with lots more room for all of us. More information about these upcoming concerts here.
