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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music
Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber....
. Its website states that it is "the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music."

The CMS is one of twelve constituents of New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in New York City....
, the largest performing arts complex in the world.






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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music
Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber....
. Its website states that it is "the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music."

The CMS is one of twelve constituents of New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in New York City....
, the largest performing arts complex in the world. Its home is at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall
Alice Tully Hall

The Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall that is part of the Lincoln Center in New York City. It was created from the donations of Alice Tully, a chamber music benefactor and patron of the arts....
 and its activities include performances, education, recordings, and broadcasts events. The organization's roster includes 35 performing artists, to which guest artists are added.

The CMS presents concert series and educational events annually. The organization's artistic directors are David Finckel and Wu Han. The founding director was Charles Wadsworth
Charles Wadsworth

Charles Wadsworth is a European classical music pianist and musical promoter. In 1960, he gained international renown by originating the Midday Concerts at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto....
 (1969-89), and previous directors also include Fred Sherry (1989-93) and David Shifrin
David Shifrin

David Shifrin is an United States classical clarinetist....
 (1993-2004).

The CMS has released a number of CDs, including works from the standard repertore as well as contemporary
Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to a period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism . However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to the post-1945 Modernism of post-tonal music from the death of Anton Webern ...
 compositions. It also tours the United States regularly. The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts
Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts

The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts is the major center of theatre and the arts at Fairfield University located in Fairfield, Connecticut....
 at Fairfield University
Fairfield University

Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States....
 in Fairfield, Connecticut
Fairfield, Connecticut

Fairfield is a New England town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. It is situated along the Gold Coast . Fairfield is a town of many neighborhoods, two of which -- Southport and Greenfield Hill -- are notably affluent....
 has been an annual tour destination since 2002.

The first CMS performance took place on September 11, 1969. CMS performances include works dating back as far as the Renaissance
Renaissance music

Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600. Dates of classical music eras, given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the 15th century....
 as well as newly composed pieces. The organization has commissioned over 135 new works from composers such as Bruce Adolphe
Bruce Adolphe

Bruce Adolphe is a United States composer and music scholar, the author of several books on music, and pianist. His current positions include Artistic and Education Advisor of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and founder and creative director of PollyRhythm Productions....
, Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber

Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
, Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
, William Bolcom
William Bolcom

William Elden Bolcom is an United States composer and piano. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, three Grammy Awards, and the Detroit Music Award....
, John Corigliano
John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
, George Crumb
George Crumb

George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
, Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss was a German-born United States composer, conducting, pianist, and professor....
, John Harbison
John Harbison

John Harris Harbison is a composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.Harbison won the prestigious BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards for composition at the age of sixteen in 1954....
, Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentina composer of European classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers....
, Morton Gould
Morton Gould

Morton Gould was an United States pianist, composer, conductor, and arranger.Born in Richmond Hill, New York, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisation and music composition....
, Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett is an United States pianist, composer and jazz icon.His career started with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in both classical music and jazz, as a group leader and a solo performer....
, Oliver Knussen
Oliver Knussen

Oliver Knussen CBE is a United Kingdom composer and conducting....
, Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italy composer and libretto. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship....
, Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
, Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele

Johann Peter Schickele is an United States composer, musical educator and parody, best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P....
, Bright Sheng
Bright Sheng

Bright Sheng is a Chinese-American composer, conducting, and pianist. He has lived in the United States since 1982 and is on faculty at the University of Michigan....
, Joan Tower
Joan Tower

Joan Tower is a contemporary classical music American classical music composer, pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world....
, Jin Hi Kim
Jin Hi Kim

Jin Hi Kim is a geomungo player and composer.She is known for introducing the geomungo to the wider world through her contemporary classical music chamber and orchestral compositions and large-scale multimedia pieces, as well as her extensive work in avant-garde and cross-cultural free improvisation....
, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. CMS also supports the work of living composers by awarding the Elise L. Stoeger Prize, a cash award given every other year to an outstanding composer of chamber music. New with the 2006-2007 season is the concept of Season Composers, whose works will be heard throughout the season, leading to three world premieres in the spring. The 2006-2007 Season Composers are Leon Kirchner
Leon Kirchner

Leon Kirchner is an United States composer of contemporary classical music. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences....
, Bright Sheng, and Nicholas Maw
Nicholas Maw

John Nicholas Maw is a United Kingdom composer....
.

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from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and near the Back Bay Fens....