Bach's Six Cello Suites stand among the most enduring works in the Western canon. GNPQ violist, Fitz Gary and cellist, Isaac Melamed, present the suites across two programs, revealing the remarkable breadth, architecture, and expressive range of these extraordinary works.

What better way to embrace the spirit of this Thanksgiving than with a Music Feeds Us benefit concert by the Garth Newel Piano Quartet? Come to the Homestead on Thursday and fill your soul with the sunniness of Mozart’s E-flat piano quartet and the ardor of Arthur Foote’s piano quartet.

Concert is free, though we request a monetary or non-perishable food donation which will go to the Blue Ridge Area Food bank.

Twice is better, and we feel that no one should go hungry this holiday season. Come to a second Music Feeds Us benefit concert by the Garth Newel Piano Quartet. Concert is free, though we request a monetary or non-perishable food donation which will go to the Blue Ridge Area Food bank.

Auspicious Beginnings

We celebrate the New Year—and the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death—with his very first published work, the delightful Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1, No. 1. Chausson’s magnificent Piano Trio, Op. 3, offers another glimpse of how an extraordinary early work can foreshadow musical greatness. As a fresh start to the new year, these two works seem to ask, with a grin: What comes next?