THE CONCERTS
...breathtaking elan and finess -Times Herald Record
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Can Music Make Us New? Henry Louis Gates, in his elegiac history of reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, Stony the Road, states flatly “While all art, inevitably, is political, one cannot launch a political revolution through art alone.” Gates’s point of reference in this instance was the work of the Harlem Renaissance as the cultural expression of a so-called “New Negro”, a social and political construct intended to counteract the corrosive evil of Sambo art and the pervasive stereotypes of the minstrel show. [ 2,186 more words ]
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NEWS
WCM Partners with the Arnold!
Sims and Kirsten Foster and the whole team at Foster Supply have been steadily transforming the culinary, hospitality and cultural scene of the lower Catskills for the last few years; WCM is all about giving the region transformative experiences of amazing music. It’s a match made in heaven! Take advantage of the Arnold House’s mid-week WCM package for a discounted Thursday night stay and a discounted ticket to our Thursday MusicTalks! series.
2019 Season Passes Available
Until June 30th our 2019 Season Passes are available for only $100!
Our 26th Season Is Here!
2019 marks 26 years of WCM, 26 years of breathtaking music in the beautiful Catskills. Or is it the other way around? Beautiful music in the breathtaking Catskills… it works either way. The unique conjunction of this luminous, magical region with all that is luminous and magical in the ongoing chamber music tradition has made WCM, and its relationship to place and to people simply irreplaceable.
WCM Barn Raising Summer Benefit Tickets are on sale now!
WCM Barn Raising Summer Benefit Tickets are on sale now! June 13th, 5 pm, Eddie Adams Barn Tickets $90 Seating limited to 60, tables available. BUY TICKETS
WCM Immersion Fellowship Open for 2018 Application
Applications open for 2018 WCM Immersion Fellowship Program
WCM’s 2018 Summer Festival
WCM’s 2018 Summer Festival, Free Variations, explores variation-as-experience and invites Pulitzer Prize-winning composer in residence Joan Tower to the Catskills…
WEEKEND OF CHAMBER MUSIC’S 24th SEASON, THE MUSICAL SOUL, OPENS ON JULY 15TH
Weekend of Chamber Music’s 24th season is here, and this year’s festival, The Musical Soul, runs from July 15th through the 30th. WCM will present 9 events at all its usual and unusual venues in Sullivan and surrounding counties, with the addition of the Liberty Museum, as well as the Cooperage in Honesdale Pennsylvania…
WCM Immersion Program Open for 2017 Applications
Our 2017 Immersion Program is now open for 2017 application. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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.
We’ll Always Have Paris
When we titled this year’s festival it was in a state of grace, a suspended moment of joy at the thought of the garden of delights we had planted for the summer…
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
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Can Music Make Us New? Henry Louis Gates, in his elegiac history of reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, Stony the Road, states flatly “While all art, inevitably, is political, one cannot launch a political revolution through art alone.” Gates’s point of reference in this instance was the work of the Harlem Renaissance as the cultural expression of a so-called “New Negro”, a social and political construct intended to counteract the corrosive evil of Sambo art and the pervasive stereotypes of the minstrel show. [ 2,186 more words ]
andrewwaggoner.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/whither-music-thoughts-on-where-were-at/
ABOUT WCM
Artistic Directors’ Message
Weekend of Chamber Music’s 26th year!
Sommerwind… it’s both a seminal work by Anton Webern and (in English) an indispensable part of the Frank Sinatra canon. Either way it speaks to a breeze’s warm caress, to memory, nostalgia, and the bittersweet passing of time. For us it also conjures summer in the Catskills, the uncanny beauty of the light, the water, the green sloping of the mountains, the old friends we cherish and the new ones we make every summer. Singing of all that and more is music from the singularity between old and new, with works from Brahms, Debussy, Webern, and Alexander von Zemlinsky, one of the most brilliant and intoxicating voices from fin de siècle Vienna. Add to the mix the playful, crystalline music of composer in residence Harold Meltzer, the unbounded creativity of our chamber music immersion fellows, and music for the fiery Sunrise of filmmaker F.W. Murnau, and this summer positively shimmers.
Love,
Carrie & Andy
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.
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Can Music Make Us New? Henry Louis Gates, in his elegiac history of reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, Stony the Road, states flatly “While all art, inevitably, is political, one cannot launch a political revolution through art alone.” Gates’s point of reference in this instance was the work of the Harlem Renaissance as the cultural expression of a so-called “New Negro”, a social and political construct intended to counteract the corrosive evil of Sambo art and the pervasive stereotypes of the minstrel show. [ 2,186 more words ]
andrewwaggoner.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/whither-music-thoughts-on-where-were-at/
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Weekend of Chamber Music, Inc.
PO Box 147
Jeffersonville, N.Y. 12748
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(917) 664-5185