Works by composers and poets inspired by The Great War. Alban Berg and Maurice Ravel saw the front lines of the Great War first hand, as did Guillaume Apollinaire, the…

Hanns Eisler's haunting musical journal of exile. In 1941 Hanns Eisler found himself in Los Angeles, a refugee from Nazi oppression. Alone and out of place in Hollywood’s superficial glitz,…

Works by composers who lost their lives in the Holocaust. The Holocaust silenced an entire generation of gifted composers This program includes works by those who lost their lives in…

  Benjamin Britten wrote his John Donne songs after seeing firsthand the horrors of a concentration camp. Arnold Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte is a scathing indictment of the narcissism…

Works inspired by the French Resistance to Nazi Occupation. When Paris fell to the Nazis in 1940, ordinary Frenchman went underground to mount an insurrection unlike any in modern history.…

Works from the European Avant Garde. Worldliness I explores song through the prism of the European Avant Garde, including modern classics by Birtwistle, Reimann, and Saariaho alongside brilliant works from…

Worldliness I explores song through the prism of the European Avant Garde, including modern classics by Birtwistle, Reimann, and Saariaho alongside brilliant works from the next generation of European composers.…

Works from the recent explosion of creativity by composers of Asian decent. Worldliness II explores the extraordinary developments in recent years from composers of Asian descent, many of whom brilliantly…

Worldliness II explores the extraordinary developments in recent years from composers of Asian descent, many of whom brilliantly incorporate Eastern techniques into Western forms.This program Includes the world premiere of…

BASS’s season finale celebrates the immense diversity of music from the Americas with works representing Canada, the US, the Caribbean, as well as Mexico and South America. The program includes…

Circles III: The Second Viennese School Arnold Schoenberg and his closest students changed the course of music history. They also had a complex relationship filled with admiration, jealousy,and betrayal. Alban…

A new play written and composed by Shira Nayman and Ben Moore, adapted from Nayman’s collection of short stories, Awake in the Dark, will be an exclusive two show run,…