NEWS
September 24th at 4PM, Mysteries of Identity at the Cooperage!
Mysteries of Identity, Caroline Stinson & Ieva Jokubaviciute in Recital
A musical exploration of how we define ourselves, culturally, personally and spiritually, Mysteries of Identity brings together a wide range of compositional voices in search of their own expressive “I am”.
VIDEO: Bach at the Tenri Institute
Here is a live video from our March 25, 2016 concert at the Tenri Institute in New York City.
VIDEO: Andrew Waggoner’s Down/Up
Here is a live video from our March 25, 2016 concert at the Tenri Institute in New York City.
Artist Q & A: Oboist Peggy Pearson
Two big pillars of your Artistical life are Winsor Music and Emmanuel Music…
As always, love: of chamber music, of our musical friends, and our Catskill community, is the thing that drives and sustains us, and that makes everything possible. We can’t wait to share that love with you all once again. -Andrew Waggoner & Caroline Stinson
ABOUT WCM
Artistic Directors’ Message
The Great Tradition! Wow, that rings with all kinds of portent: a canon, a shared history, a legacy, the masterpieces of common practice. We’re interested in all of that, but even more in looking forward and seeing that tradition extended, re-heard, reimagined and remade. This summer’s program is anchored by the cornerstone presences of Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, and Schumann. The conversation then broadens to include twentieth-century masters Duke Ellington, Alberto Ginastera and Michael Tippett, each of whom looks back to their forebears while also anticipating the contemporary voices of Morris Rosenzweig, and this year’s composer in residence Augusta Read Thomas. Running parallel to all this is salon music both old and new, composed and improvised. It’s a multi-generational colloquy, a three-hundred year family reunion. We love tradition, especially ours of 32 years: hearing the old in the new, the new in the old, and the wondrous in everything.
Love,
Andy & Carrie
Our Mission
We engage the public of the Catskills and the Upper Delaware region directly by bringing transformative performances of, and discussion around, chamber music to a wide variety of venues across the region. With events each season in a converted barn (our main concert home); a distillery; a country inn; a farmer’s market; a church lawn; a repurposed school; and an old mill-turned-gallery, we bring our work straight to the people wherever they are. Our commitment to what we see as an essential mix of standard repertoire, new music, encounters with living composers, and improvisation, ensures that our audiences come to see chamber music as a vital, contemporary, evolving art form, one that speaks directly to them, of their lives and their shared humanity.
THE CONCERTS
The Great Tradition! Music of Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, Ginastera, Tippett, Rosenzweig, and Composer in Residence Augusta Read Thomas. All this plus salon music new and old, composed and improvised. It’s a multi-generational, three-hundred year musical conversation. Check back soon for full convert details!
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Weekend of Chamber Music, Inc.
PO Box 147
Jeffersonville NY. 12748
(917)-664-5185