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, viola, 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.
"One of the joys of hearing the Chameleon Arts Ensemble comes from Deborah Boldin’s whimsical thematic programming, mixing old and new, letting pieces echo and shed light on each other."
— The Boston Musical Musical Intelligencer
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