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presents
Basically Beethoven Festival
2025


always free admission
BBF25 Sponsor Capital One Logo

Basically Beethoven's free concerts and music residencies are supported throughout the year by The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, Fanchon & Howard Hallam, Capital One, Moody Fund for the Arts, , TACA - The Arts Community Alliance, The Texas Commission on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, DART, and generous individual donations from people like YOU.

Help support Basically Beethoven with this year's cool swag

Available at the festival:

This summer's must-have cap

with $50 donation:

2025 BBF25 Cap

This summer's must-have grocery or beach tote

with $30 donation:

2025 BBF25 Tote
Texas Commission on the Arts Sponsor for Basically Beethoven

About the
Basically Beethoven Festival

Free, classical music concerts on Sundays in July at 2:30 pm in a welcoming environment for all ages.

The Basically Beethoven Festival was Fine Arts Chamber Players’ inaugural concert series. Since 1981, the Festival has provided North Texas with free chamber music concerts during the month of July, a traditionally slow time for arts events in Dallas. The Festival features professional musicians from local ensembles performing a diverse range of music.

Every program begins with a Rising Star recital spotlighting local, gifted young musicians, many of whom are winners of area music contests and concerto competitions; followed by the Featured Performance showcasing professional musicians from across the Metroplex.

 

Admission to ALL concerts is 100% free, and performances fulfill Basically Beethoven’s commitment to produce classical music concerts with no barriers to attendance. Performances are enjoyed by longtime arts patrons and attendees who are new to classical music. Families with children in particular might find the Festival a good fit. If young children get fidgety, we have a table set up in the lobby with paper, crayons, coloring books, and children's books where they can be creative while listening to the concert.

Since the pandemic, we now offer recordings of these concerts on our YouTube channel HERE.

We are indebted to the past work of Dr. Alex McDonald, Festival Director of the Fine Arts Chamber Players' Basically Beethoven Festival from 2015 - 2023.

2025 Basically Beethoven Festival Sponsors

About Basically Beethoven Hallam Concerts

The Basically Beethoven Hallam Concerts are monthly on Saturday afternoons at 3 o'clock, October - May (excluding December) and last roughly an hour. During the 2024 - 2025 season, all will be held at Central Commons, 4711 Westside Drive in Dallas. They are completely free of charge and open to all ages. Each concert features local professional performers who play in a wide range of ensembles.

This series is generously sponsored by Fanchon & Howard Hallam. We are grateful to them as well as to many others who give of their time and resources to make our concerts a reality. Your contributions help us keep these concerts free for all.

This concert series began in 1984 as Bancroft Family Concerts through a partnership with the Dallas Museum of Art. The free admission and daytime time slot of the concerts were expressly chosen to support FACP’s commitment to provide professional chamber music to those who would not traditionally be able to attend—particularly older adults and families with children. For nearly four decades, the concerts have consistently attracted full-capacity audiences. Musicians frequently include members of  the Dallas and Fort Worth symphonies, the Dallas Opera orchestra, other professional ensembles, and faculty members from local universities such as Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas.

We are indebted to the past work of Emily Levin, Artistic Director of the Fine Arts Chamber Players' Hallam Family Concert series from 2019 - 2024.

Basically Beethoven Hallam Concert Sponsors
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