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	<description>from New England’s preeminent chamber ensemble</description>
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		<title>Exiled to Hollywood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each January since 2010 we have had the privilege of exploring topics in forum and concert that expand the contexts in which we appreciate the great chamber music literature. With support from MIT Music and Theater Arts Faculty and the Goethe-Institut Boston we place this season’s concert and forum squarely into the center of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2012/01/exiled-to-hollywood/</link>
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		<title>Variations and Transcriptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our December concert is comprised of familiar pieces built on memorable themes and many curious and wonderful connections. 
Two of our composers, Bach and Handel, were revered by everybody’s ‘composer of the month,’ Ludwig van Beethoven. (He turns 241 on December 16!) Beethoven came to the attention of Viennese audiences and musicians with his superb [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2011/12/variations-and-transcriptions/</link>
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		<title>Where it all began</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second program of our 29th season reminds me of many different beginnings in my own life: Haydn, as the “father of chamber music”, the Dohnányi Serenade as one I first performed on many tours in a trio with the man who was to become founder of BCMS, Ronald Thomas; the Bloch Two Pieces–first heard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2011/11/where-it-all-began/</link>
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		<title>Youth and Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our first program of the twenty-ninth BCMS season is full of unusual juxtapositions of youth and age. 
Mozart’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, written in 1786, is the mature work of a young composer whose life was to end much too soon in 1791.  
The Four Poems for low voice, viola and Piano by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2011/10/youth-and-age/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to our 2011-12 Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends: 
It is hard to contain the excitement we feel about the music we’ll hear, the artists we’ll experience and the ideas we’ll explore throughout the rest of the season. Our mission, to present insightful performances of the finest chamber music by many of today’s most exciting players, continues with a balance of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2011/09/welcome-to-our-2011-12-season/</link>
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		<title>All manner of plucked things and variation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our April concert can probably be distinguished by its containment of ‘all manner of plucked things;’ that is, the use of the plucked sound, explicitly and implicitly, as a source of the character and variety in the music. (And–for that matter–this music contains all manner of variation, too!) 
Mozart’s first of three quartets for flute and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2011/04/all-manner-of-plucked-things-and-variation/</link>
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		<title>Spiritus Hungaricus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our March concert provides a rare opportunity to invoke the Spiritus Hungaricus–that pungent ethnic spice that enlivened and informed so much of the formal classical music from Haydn to Brahms by occasionally allowing the rowdies into the salon. 
We, however, allow the tables to be turned by presenting works by two recent and leading Hungarian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2011/03/spiritus-hungaricus/</link>
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		<title>I greet you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1822 Schubert set Rückert’s five-verse poem, Sei mir gegrüßt (I greet you), to music, and it became one of the most exquisite of his love songs. Five years later, it found its way to the slow movement, a set of variations, of his Fantasy for Violin and Piano.
On Youtube you may find many different interpretations of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2011/02/i-greet-you/</link>
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		<title>Introduction: An Artistic Menagerie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January 2010, our first BCMS Winter Festival and Forum Series presented jointly with the MIT Music and Theater Arts Faculty explored a segment of the chamber music repertoire through the lens of ideas about Musical Time–within the music, accompanying texts, and other artistic media.
Our 2011 BCMS Winter Special Event, also jointly presented by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2011/01/introduction-an-artistic-menagerie/</link>
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		<title>In the midst of things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We open the second concert of our fall series at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre by concluding the observance of Frederic Chopin’s 200th birthday begun this summer at the Mosesian Theater at the Arsenal Center in Watertown. In that series we heard Chopin’s early piano trio, two ballades, and his Op. 3 for cello and piano, Introduction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bostonchambermusic.org/blog/2010/11/in-the-midst-of-things/</link>
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