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Summer Evening Market
Join us & support local at the Summer Evening Market on Thursday, July 25th from 5-9PM in the Brevard Lumberyard (200 King St.). This pop-up market is presented by WSAM & REMAX Land of the Waterfalls. We’ll be featuring over 25 Local Artisans, Grand Olde Station Express Food Truck, Popcorn, Face Painting, UpCountry Brewing AND…
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An Evening of Jerome Kern & Friends
Acclaimed conductor, arranger, and director Andy Einhorn curates an evening of beloved songs by one of the most important musical theater composers of the 20th century. Along with Kern classics such as “Old Man River,” “A Fine Romance,” and “The Way You Look Tonight,” Einhorn will sprinkle in a few favorites from the golden age…
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Brahms String Sextet in G major
A varied program of mixed chamber music sets the stage for Brahms’s rich and complex G Major String Sextet. A sonorous work filled with dancing rhythms, exquisite melodies, and even a musical reference to a lost love, the String Sextet No. 2 is a sophisticated work by a great artist reaching the heights of his…
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Czech Masters
Few composers captured the cadences, timbres, and inflections of language and culture as did Dvořák, Janáček, and Smetana. Their embrace of folk music and its importance as an element of an original compositional style led to a collective body of influential work inspired by the songs, dances, and rhythms of country life. The three pieces…
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The Threepenny Opera
Written by playwright Bertolt Brecht with music by Kurt Weill, The Threepenny Opera opened in Berlin in 1928, serving as a biting critique of capitalism and the bourgeoisie. Strongly influenced by the jazz and German dance music in favor at the time, The Threepenny Opera has produced numerous popular songs, most notably “The Ballad of…
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Claire Chase and Friends
As a musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator, MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ recipient Claire Chase is passionately dedicated to the creation of new ecosystems for the music of our time. In this recital she performs solo works and collaborates with BMC flute students and other instrumentalists in an exploratory and improvisatory program. Chase is a 2024 Thomas…
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The Concord Sonata
Witness a rare performance of Ives’s iconic sonata performed by pianist Michael Chertock. Readings that inspired Ives’s work are recited before each movement by baritone William Sharp. A discussion with the artists will take place following the concert.
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Charles Ives: A Life in Music
Cultural historian and author Joseph Horowitz explores the life and career of American composer Charles Ives. A scripted playlet is the vehicle used to tell the story before Horowitz and Professor J. Peter Burkholder introduce Ives’s 2nd String Quartet, to be performed by BMC Artist Faculty. Interspersed throughout the program will be art songs from…
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Bruckner 7
Sebastian Lang-Lessing returns to Brevard’s podium to conduct Bruckner’s sweeping Symphony No. 7. The most successful of Bruckner’s works, its early performances turned the oft-maligned Austrian composer into an overnight success. This beautiful statement of Bruckner’s special world of slow-moving intensity and overpowering climaxes is a fitting celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday. Brevard Sinfonia…
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Fanfares and Festivals
Brevard’s High School Division students shine! Kraig Alan Williams leads the Brevard Symphonic Winds in three works by seminal composers for the symphonic wind repertoire, and Ken Lam conducts the Brevard Concert Orchestra in the last of Respighi’s ‘Roman Triptych’, described by the composer as incorporating the “maximum of orchestral sonority and color.” Every section…