transcendent music I have heard
Saturday, October 4, 2008, 8 PM
Sunday, October 5, 2008, 3 PM
Claude Debussy, Sonata for flute, viola & harp
Krzysztof Penderecki, Sextet for clarinet, horn, string trio & piano (2000)
Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
We open our second decade with a bang - three blockbusters
from three centuries, works that define genres and set new
benchmarks for what can be expressed through music. Don't
miss this tour de force concert, including Penderecki's colossal
Sextet, the first undeniable masterpiece of the 21st century.
a hundred onward years
Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8 PM
Ludwig van Beethoven, Serenade in D Major for flute, viola & violin, Op. 25 (1801)
Robert Schumann, Sonata No. 2 in d minor for violin & piano, Op. 121 (1851)
Charles Martin Loeffler, Deux Rhapsodies for oboe, viola & piano (1901)
Lou Harrison, Songs from the Forest for flute, violin, vibraphone & piano (1951)
Aaron Jay Kernis, Trio in Red for clarinet, cello & piano (2001)
Take a trip with the Chameleons as we hop, skip and jump
through musical history fifty years at a time. We begin joyfully
with early Beethoven and end with Aaron Jay Kernis, one of
America's most decorated composers, the youngest ever to win
a Pulitzer Prize.
a tale that's told in ancient song
Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2009, 3 PM
Maurice Ravel, Tzigane Rapsody de Concert for violin & piano
Manuel de Falla, Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas for soprano & piano
Judith Weir, Airs from Another Planet: Traditional Music from Outer Space for winds & piano
Chen Yi, Qi for flute, cello, percussion & piano
Bedrich Smetana, Piano Trio in g minor, Op. 15
Composers have long filled concert halls with the sounds
of their native lands. This lighthearted, jubilant program
draws from the richest folk traditions, even Judith Weir's
fanciful imagining of interplanetary settlers, many generations
removed from their Scottish heritage!
like woven sounds of streams
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8 PM
Franz Schubert, Quintet in A Major for piano & strings, Op. 114, "The Trout"
Dan Welcher, Mill Songs: Four Metamorphoses after Schubert for oboe & bassoon
Dominick Argento, To be sung upon the water for soprano, bass clarinet & piano
Hanns Eisler, Fourteen Ways to Describe Rain for flute, clarinet, string trio & piano
Life begins with water, nature's greatest force of regeneration
and renewal. Join us for this invigorating program of music
inspired by water and its sounds, including a rarely-heard
seminal work by the brilliant German exile Hanns Eisler, one
of the first victims of the Hollywood blacklist.
of spirits voices ecstatic
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 8 PM
Sunday, May 17, 2009, 3 PM
with guest artists Elizabeth
Keusch, soprano and Aditya
Kalyanpur, tabla
Robert Schumann, Fantasiestucke for cello & piano, Op. 73
Toru Takemitsu, Rain Spell for flute, clarinet, piano, vibraphone & harp
Shirish Korde, Zhikr for soprano, flute, string trio, harp, tabla
& percussion - World Premiere
Arvo Part, Spiegel im Spiegel for clarinet & piano
Gabriel Faure, Piano Quartet in g minor, Op. 45
Our season comes to a close with music that transports us
to a mystical realm, a rapturous place of inner spirituality
and otherworldly fantasy.
Education and Family Concerts:
Silver Songs and Golden Drums
Sunday, May 3, 2009, 2PM
Forsyth Chapel, at the Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston
works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei
Prokofiev, Morton Gould, Astor Piazzolla, Kevin Volans, Frederic
Rzewski, and Hans Spencer
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