Chamber Series 4: To Wake the Dead
When & Where
- Saturday, April 11, 2026, 7:30 PM
- Sunday, April 12, 2026, 4 PM
First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street
The runtime for this program is approximately 2 hours, 15 minutes.
How to Order
Purchase Tickets
Order online, by phone at 617-427-8200, or download a mail-in form.
- Single tickets: $27-$54
- Subscriptions: $86-$313
Program
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir d’un lieu cher for violin & piano, Op. 42
- Herbert Howells, Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet & strings, Op. 31 (1919)
- Stephen Albert, To Wake the Dead: Six Sentimental Songs and an Interlude after Finnegans Wake for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
- Louis Vierne, Piano Quintet in c minor, Op. 42 (1917)
Tchaikovsky shares misty reflections of a dear place, and Howells contemplates an England, and a way of life, destroyed by the First World War. Vierne’s epic, late-Romantic treasure is a powerful and emotionally charged work conceived as a votive offering for his son who was killed in action. Stephen Albert adapts James Joyce’s nearly incomprehensible text – with its wordplay, dreamlike ambiguity, and half-remembered fragments – into a moving exploration of love, loss, and the cyclical nature of life itself.
"[They] dispatched cadenza-like passages with the flamboyant qualities of a supernova."
— The Boston Musical Intelligencer
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