Music: The Concert

I've never been to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, but it seems like one of those idyllic places where you'd like to hole up if the world ever ends. It's an oasis of culture: on the grounds, you'll find paintings from Rembrandt, a courtyard garden, and an intimate concert chamber called the Tapestry Room.

The ISGM holds a regular classical music concert series inside the Tapestry Room. Twice a month, they release new entries in "The Concert," a podcast featuring selected pieces from the concert series. Due to the constraints of the performance area, you'll seldom hear a huge orchestra thundering through a Romantic symphony; instead, the show mostly features chamber music, both famous and little-known. If you need a little culture in your workday wasteland, give it a try.