Spring Digital Season 28 New Digital Programs, April 1 – July 1

New York: - EMBARGOED UNTIL TUE, MARCH 2, 2021 AT 10 AM EST — The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) announces an exciting Spring season of digital offerings from April 1 to July 1, which is dedicated to the late Gustave M. Hauser.  CMS presents 28 digital programs, with concerts premiering on Thursday evenings at 7:30 and educational and hybrid talk-and-performance programs premiering on Monday evenings.

CMS dedicates this Spring season to the digital media pioneer Gustave M. Hauser who died at age 91 on February 14.  He launched CMS’s global digital media program from Alice Tully Hall in 2014 through the Hauser Foundation, and throughout the pandemic, audiences around the world have been reaping the benets of the extensive digital archive CMS has been able to create. Through his vision and generosity, CMS had been an early entrant into the eld of high-denition concert recording, which left the organization well-prepared to address the digital content and know-how needed to sustain audiences during the pandemic.

David Finckel, Co-Artistic Director of CMS said, “In February of 2020 none of us could have imagined the year that was to come. When concert halls were shuttered in March, we knew that doing nothing was not an option; we needed to keep the music alive for our audiences and our musicians. We found ways to create income for our musicians, and we’re sending our work out more widely than ever before to music lovers around the world.”

Including this slate of 28 new offerings, CMS will have presented 117 digital programs since the beginning of the pandemic in March.  CMS has also brought these concerts, through its Front Row: National initiative, to nearly 60 chamber music presenters around North America, who have presented or scheduled nearly 400 local streaming events to their audiences.