About the
Stirling Series
Friends of Chamber Music
The Friends of Chamber Music of Reading is pleased to present this season’s “Sunday Evenings at Stirling” dinner concerts, in collaboration with the Curtis Institute of Music. Each of last season’s magnificent performances proved to be a memorable event.
Since 1924, Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music has trained exceptionally fine young musicians, tuition-free, for performing careers on the highest professional level. A list of Curtis graduates is a veritable “who’s who” of classical music, including Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, Leonard Bernstein, Gary Graffman, Lynn Harrell, Peter Serkin, Anna Moffo and countless others, as well as half the complement of musicians in the Philadelphia Orchestra!
The Friends of Chamber Music of Reading is an organization which has provided a series of live chamber music performances to this community for over half a century. Founded in 1953, The Friends have brought many distinguished chamber ensembles to Reading in an extensive exploration of the rich and wonderful world of classical chamber music.
Stirling, the beautiful former home of Gertrude Sternbergh, Reading’s own Patroness of the Arts, will be opened again for these elegant dinner-recitals and meet-the-artist receptions. It is our way of remembering and reliving the gifts of great music which Gertrude shared with so many throughout the years. Kaj Skov, hotelier and restaurateur from Denmark, has restored this palatial dwelling to its original splendor and opens its doors to the music-loving community for these special events.
