25 Years of Program Notes

Published: April 9, 2025

If you have attended one of our Chamber Music at the Clark concerts, you have had the pleasure of reading the engaging program notes. These brief narratives that give concertgoers historical and artistic context for the music they’re hearing have been crafted by our very own Bruce Whiteman, Clark Librarian Emeritus. Bruce began composing program notes for the series in 1999, and although he left his position at the Clark in 2010, he continues to provide notes to this day. To thank Bruce for his remarkable contributions over the past 25 years, he will be celebrated at the upcoming Borromeo String Quartet concert on Sunday, April 27. Each attendee will receive a commemorative volume containing a curated selection of Bruce’s program notes, and a PDF of the volume will be published on our website soon thereafter. In the meantime, we invite you to enjoy a collection of snippets from Bruce’s insightful notes that were  featured in a recent UCLA Humanities article.