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    Classical

    Invitation to the Dance

    Illustration for Invitation to the Dance

    Saturday, April 25, 2026

    8:30 PM

    Alice Tully Hall

    1941 Broadway at 65th Street, New York, NY 10023

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    At Alice Tully Hall, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents *Invitation to the Dance*, a chamber program shaped around music written for movement, whether danced onstage or imagined in the ear. The title points back to the 19th-century concert waltz tradition, when composers turned social dance into a listening form and a kind of musical narrative. In New York, that idea carries a local lineage, from Lincoln Center’s long partnership with both chamber music and ballet to the city’s broader history of concert dance. The most telling detail is how chamber textures make rhythm and gesture feel exposed, with little to hide behind.

    About Invitation to the Dance(chamber)

    At Alice Tully Hall, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents *Invitation to the Dance*, a chamber program shaped around music written for movement, whether danced onstage or imagined in the ear. The title points back to the 19th-century concert waltz tradition, when composers turned social dance into a listening form and a kind of musical narrative. In New York, that idea carries a local lineage, from Lincoln Center’s long partnership with both chamber music and ballet to the city’s broader history of concert dance. The most telling detail is how chamber textures make rhythm and gesture feel exposed, with little to hide behind.