Programs

Abstract

Patterns of concert programming have shifted over the centuries. While hybrid concerts that featured different genres and ensembles side by side endured until the twentieth century, in chamber music especially there was a turn toward programs focused on a single composer, particularly Ludwig van Beethoven. Concert cycles of Beethoven quartets had begun to be presented in the nineteenth century as a professional endeavor. Other composers and ensembles began to be approached in a similarly concentrated manner. While these practices affirmed the canon as dead, white, and male, there have been projects to diversify programming to represent a more inclusive range of music and musicians.