Mobile Chamber Music

08/29/2026

Johann Sebastian Bach had a jail record.

We know much about Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
What do we know about Johann Sebastian Bach?

The few portraits we have of Bach suggest a stern, no-nonsense man. In fact, Bach had light side with a fine sense of humor. We can hear it in his music.

Where's the evidence? 

Did you know that Bach composed a comedic choral composition, the Coffee Cantata, performed at a Leipzig coffeehouse? Its plot involved a battle of wits between a young woman addicted to coffee and her father's struggle to turn her thoughts from mocha java to marriage.

Bach's humor was tested when he went to jail. In 1717 the composer tried to leave his post in Weimar, unhappy with the conservative musical taste of his employer, Duke Wilhelm Ernst.

Bach spent nearly a month locked up with no instruments. Some historians believe that he used the time to begin composing his Well-Tempered Clavier in his head!

You will get a new, refreshing perspective of Johann Sebastian Bach when acclaimed pianist Simone Dinnerstein brings members of her Baroque ensemble Baroklyn for our all-Bach opening concert of Mobile Chamber Music's 65th season.

This highly anticipated concert will be recorded for later broadcast by Alabama Public Radio. Do you have tickets?

By purchasing your subscription today you will assure yourself a seat. You will also help us plan ahead.

Visit us here: http://www.mobilechambermusic.org/

08/28/2026

Tickets for our 65th season are available now. You won't want to miss our first concert.

08/25/2026

How did Bach grow as a young musician, and how has his music helped...

08/22/2026

Simone Dinnerstein guides you through the Bach Country
Subscribe now and you won't miss her all Bach concert with Baroklyn on Setember 27 at USA Laidlaw Performing Arts Center

How did Bach grow as a young musician, and how has his music helped...

08/20/2026

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08/16/2026

Do You Wanna Dance?

Allemandes, Courantes, Sarabandes, Minuets, Bourrèes, Gigues...

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is filled with dances. Nearly 200 stylized movements with dance titles are in his instrumental compositions alone.

While dances became refined in the courts of Europe, many had early folk origins. For example, when the Sarabande came to France in 1588, it was a raucous dance. According to one nobleman it either delighted or annoyed.

There will be plenty of dance-inspired music to delight you when acclaimed pianist Simone Dinnerstein brings members of her Baroque ensemble Baroklyn for the opening all-Bach concert of Mobile Chamber Music’s 65th season.

This highly anticipated concert will be recorded for later broadcast by Alabama Public Radio. Do you have tickets?

By purchasing your subscription today you will assure yourself a seat. You will also help us plan ahead.

Why wait?

Our basic subscriptions are very affordable, only $100 for five concerts. Tickets for these performers would cost two to four times as much in many other cities. As always, students are admitted without charge.

Our donors help us keep our ticket prices so low.

Will you help? If you already have, then we thank you. Not yet? Subscribe today at any level.

If you are in a position to become a sponsor, please consider this important source of our funding. As a Concert Sponsor, your name appears on the program. You receive four subscriptions and have an invitation to an after-concert dinner with the artists.

Visit our website to see programs for all five concerts this season, links to the musicians’ pages, and information about subscribing.

We look forward to exploring chamber music with you!

Visit our website: http://www.mobilechambermusic.org/

08/02/2026

1962
The VW Beetle was the most popular car. Its price: $1500.

John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

Walmart, Kmart and Target opened their first stores.

Mobile Chamber Music presented its first concert.

Our first concert featured the Julliard String Quartet playing Mozart, Beethoven, and Bartok.

Since then, Mobile Chamber Music has continued a tradition of memorable performances and community outreach.

We were an all-volunteer organization then, and we remain so today.

You can help us present the best. Subscribe today.

Our basic subscriptions are very affordable, only $100 for five concerts. Tickets for these performers would cost two to four times as much in many other cities. As always, students are admitted without charge.

Our donors help us keep our ticket prices so low.

Will you help? If you already have, then we thank you. Not yet? Subscribe today at any level.

If you are in a position to become a sponsor, please consider this important source of our funding. As a Concert Sponsor, your name appears on the program. You receive four subscriptions and have an invitation to an after-concert dinner with the artists.

Visit our website to see programs for all five concerts this season, links to the musicians’ pages, and information about subscribing.

We look forward to exploring chamber music with you!

Visit our website: http://www.mobilechambermusic.org/

07/19/2026

Mobile Chamber Music’s 65th Season is entitled “Explore with us.” Each concert will tour chamber music from a new direction:

On September 27, acclaimed pianist Simone Dinnerstein will perform her arrangements of Bach concertos and cantatas with members of her Baroque ensemble Baroklyn.

On October 18, guitarist Dimitri Illarionov and bayanist Nikolay Sivchuk bring us a program that includes their explosive version of Joaquín Rodrigo’s famous Concierto de Aranjuez. It is wild!

String players today play on metal strings. But the violinist and cellist of the Busch Trio perform on traditional gut strings. Together with violist Cara Pogossian, On January 31 they will impart a dream-like sound to some of the great music of the early 20th century. It is a sound that you will not forget.

On February 28, the Akropolis Reed Quintet will play fresh arrangements of both new and familiar works. What does the music of Leonard Bernstein or George Gershwin sound like played by this Grammy award-winning ensemble of oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet and bassoon? Come find out!

Finally, the popular Maxwell Quartet returns to our hall on March 21 to play Haydn and Beethoven with a Scottish accent. There will also be a brand new work by Eleanor Alberga as well as some Scottish folk music!

These are exciting worlds to discover. Will you join us?

Our basic subscriptions are very affordable, only $100 for five concerts. Tickets for these performers would cost two to four times as much in many other cities. As always, students are admitted without charge.

Our donors help us keep our ticket prices so low.

Will you help? If you already have, then we thank you. Not yet? Subscribe today at any level.

If you are in a position to become a sponsor, please consider this important source of our funding. As a Concert Sponsor, your name appears on the program. You receive four subscriptions and have an invitation to an after-concert dinner with the artists.

Visit our website to see programs for all five concerts this season, links to the musicians’ pages, and information about subscribing.

We look forward to exploring chamber music with you!