"One of the city’s oldest and best-loved cultural treasures, the University of Chicago Presents Chamber Music Series (CMS) was founded in 1943. Its mission was and remains to offer world-class music and music education to metropolitan and suburban Chicago audiences. To this end it introduced stars in the making like Igor Stravinsky, Artur Schnabel, Isaac Stern, Arnold Schoenberg and Andres Segovia to local audiences. These soon-to-be-giants not only performed but also offered public master classes and lectures on music and composition to Windy City residents. Today, the six to seven concert-series presents a range of ensembles and composers spanning the Classical period through the end of the 20th Century."—Description by festival