Tag: chamber music

  • La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest: Evolution in Music

    An anonymous wag once dubbed chamber music “Short Attention Span Classical Music.” Clever, perhaps, but grossly simplistic. What the best chamber pieces lack in length compared to, say, a symphony or an opera is more than compensated by their complexity and depth. Chamber music originated as divertimenti for the aristocracy, but over its four hundred-year […]