Let Curtis capture your heart
Perhaps capturing your heart is a bit extreme. Or is it? Curtis makes music and music takes hold of the heart, setting emotions free. That’s the arresting beauty of music.
This page is dedicated to events or concepts we hope will inspire and capture your heart:
Music and the heart: favorite quotes
Words to inspire …
"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies."
~William Cowper"
"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends." ~Alphonse de Lamartine
"Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy." ~Euripides (c. 485-406 BC)
"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all." ~John Lennon
"To have great poets there must be great audiences too." ~Walt Whitman (We'd add great musicians need great audiences too.)
Music to our ears
Most of us cannot attend as many live performances as we'd like. Fortunately there are many ways to get our classical music fix. Here are a few of our favorites:
InstantEncore
Keep track of the classical music & artists you love! Listen, become a fan, receive announcements about upcoming performances, and more. Listen and explore now.
WHYY Arts and Culture
WHYY presents both radio and TV programming for music lovers. Visit the Arts and Culture page for programs like On Canvas, Music from the Inside Out, and Curtis’s own On stage at Curtis (WHYY-TV: Channel 12 every Sunday at 6 p.m.). Listen and watch now.
WRTI Listen Live and All-Classical Web Stream
WRTI’s classical stream simulcasts their Live 6 am to 6 pm classical broadcast programming, and from 6 pm to 6 am it switches to a variety of classical programming that is offered on their HD-2 channel. Listen now.
Performance Today
Listeners to Performance Today, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris. Listen now or see if your station is broadcasting Performance Today.
SpectiCast: the music collection
Specticast is a Philadelphia company that broadcasts live, professionally directed and produced events to specially equipped venues. Their series, the music collection, includes “The Philadelphia Orchestra Series,” Live From Curtis,” and “BMFI Theater Program.” Watch now.
Free Student Recital Series
It's hard not to include a mention of the free Curtis Student Recital Series-over 100 performances every season. There is nothing like a Live performance especially when it's free. Students perform solo and chamber works almost every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. View the schedule.
