The History of the Auburn Chamber Music Society The Auburn Chamber Music Society (ACMS) was founded in 1965 by Marjorie Tyre Sykes, and has presented a concert series each year since then. Harpist Marjorie Tyre Sykes joined the Philadelphia Orchestra at age twenty-two and went on to a long career with the Metropolitan Opera and with orchestras led by Leopold Stokowski, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, and other illustrious conductors. After moving to Auburn, she founded the ACMS and called on her friends among the elite musicians of the world to perform here. In this way, she began the tradition of world-class performances the ACMS strives to maintain. The following performers are among the many other superb players that have performed for the ACMS: the Lenox String Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet, the Juillard String Quartet. the Vermeer String Quartet, the Ysaye Quartet, the St. Lawrence Quartet, the St. Petersburg Quartet, the Moscow String Quartet, the Ebene Quartet, clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois, violinist Kristin Lee, the Bennewitz String Quartet, and the Modigliani String Quartet.
The Guarneri Quartet (left) appeared in Auburn in 1967, 1969, 1970, and 1974. The Beaux Arts Trio (above) appeared in 1967, 1970, 1972, and 1974.
