Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father, drafted the Constitution, discovered electricity, is on the $100 bill, and he composed music too.
Now you can hear the music he composed for only $45, instead of a Ben Franklin $100 bill!
Orchestra Lumos string musicians will perform the String Quartet composed by Benjamin Franklin.  Plus music by great American composers including George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and more.

Homegrown American Music

St Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk

The concert begins with Mozart’s Trio in E major, a graceful and lyrical work highlighting his gift for chamber music. From there, the program moves to the Sonata for Violin and Piano by Maurice Ravel, the great French composer of the early 20th century, whose music shimmers with color and atmosphere.

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Saratoga Springs, NY

Skidmore College

There’s an elusive logic that occurs only in dreams, that nocturnal state where the human mind processes the flood of impressions and information it takes in every day, sifting and sorting without interruption from the waking world. In this very special and wide-ranging program, Manchester Music Festival artistic director Philip Setzer is our guide through a vivid, varied dreamscape in sound—a journey epitomized by composer Paul Epstein’s appropriately titled Dreamsonata, which leaps from Viennese ballroom sounds to midwestern ragtime in the blink of an ear. The rest of the program blazes a similarly unlikely yet ultimately harmonious path, from the courtly String Quartet of Benjamin Franklin (yes, really) to Samuel Barber’s elegiac Adagio for Strings, by way of Scott Joplin, Amy Beach, and Carlos Simon.

Setzer and the Sound of Dreams

Southern Vermont Arts Center

CMS’s summer tradition returns for its 11th year. Get the summer’s hottest ticket, featuring favorite chamber music works in the cool atmosphere of Alice Tully Hall. Stay after the performance and get to know the artists in the lobby with a complimentary glass of wine. 

Benjamin Franklin

Events

Upcoming events

12 - 26 Jul, 2026

Saratoga Springs, NY · Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Jul 16, 2026

Setzer and the Sound of Dreams · Manchester Music Festival

Jul 25, 2026

Summer Evenings VI 2026 · Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Past events

Oct 26, 2025

Homegrown American Music · Orchestra LUMOS

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