• Outer Cape Chamber Music Festival // Concert 3: Goldberg Variations

    Bach's Goldberg Variations hold a peculiar place in the repertoire: endlessly analyzed, yet somehow endlessly mysterious.

    Written in 1741 for two-manual harpsichord, the work unfolds as an Aria followed by thirty variations — canons, dances, character pieces, a boisterous quodlibet — before the Aria returns at the end, the same notes now carrying the weight of everything that has come between.

  • Outer Cape Chamber Music Festival // Season closer: String Sextets

    Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night," 1899) is one of the great emotional experiences in chamber music. Written for string sextet, it follows the arc of a late-Romantic poem: two lovers walking in moonlight, a painful secret revealed, and — through the sheer force of feeling — a transformation. The music doesn't just describe the story. It is the transfiguration.

  • The Secret Garden Tour

    The Annual Secret Garden Tour welcomes hundreds of visitors every July for a self-guided journey through private residential gardens in Provincetown. Tickets include access to a free parking lot, admission to gardens, and admission to view the exhibitions in the Museum. We are incredibly grateful to the homeowners that help raise money for PAAM by sharing their beautiful oases with us. Learn more and purchase tickets here.

  • Summer Jazz Series with Bart Weisman and Friends

    Tonight’s show features Leslie Boyle (vocals) with Steve Ahern (trumpet & flute), Fred Boyle (piano), Ron Ormsby (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums). Admission is $20, paid at the door. Doors open at 5:30pm, concerts typically end at 7:15. No reservations.

  • Summer Jazz Series with Bart Weisman and Friends

    Tonight’s show features Fred Boyle (piano), Ron Ormsby (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums)…Featuring Original Compositions by Fred Boyle. Admission is $20, paid at the door. Doors open at 5:30pm, concerts typically end at 7:15. No reservations.

  • Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture // Marcia Marcus Panel Discussion

    Please join us for a panel discussion on the artist Marcia Marcus in conjunction with the exhibition Strange and Clear, curated by Brandon Brame Fortune and Debra Lennard. Included with $15 Museum admission, free for PAAM members.