Past Seasons: 2017-2018 - 20th Anniversary Season

Chamber Series 1: Appalachian Spring: Creating an American Sound

  • Saturday, September 23, 2017, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Sunday, September 24, 2017, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Charles Ives, Songs for soprano & piano
  • Amy Beach, Piano Quintet in f sharp minor, Op. 67 (1908)
  • Arthur Berger, Quartet for Winds in C Major
  • John Harbison, North & South I for soprano & English horn, clarinet, bassoon & strings
  • Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring for chamber ensemble

Chamber Series 2: of voice and verse

  • Saturday, November 4, 2017, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Sunday, November 5, 2017, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Lili Boulanger, D’un matin de printemps for flute & piano (1918)
  • Augusta Read Thomas, Rumi Settings for violin & viola
  • Aaron Copland, Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson for soprano & piano
  • Joseph Schwantner, Music of Amber for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
  • Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio in a minor

Chamber Series 3: earthly echoes, celestial song

  • Saturday, December 2, 2017, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Sunday, December 3, 2017, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 76. No. 4 “Sunrise”
  • Claude Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune for flute & piano
  • David Ludwig, Pleiades for oboe & piano
  • Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps for clarinet, violin, cello & piano

Up Close 1: Robyn Bollinger, violin & Elizabeth Schumann, piano

  • Sunday, February 4, 2018, 4 PM, Mary Norton Hall at Old South Church
  • Arvo Pärt, Fratres
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 7 in c minor, Op. 30, No. 2
  • Eric Satie, Choses vues a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, Violin Sonata, Op. 134

Chamber Series 4: immortal notes and Tuscan air

  • Sunday, March 4, 2018, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Sunday, March 4, 2018, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Samuel Barber, Summer Music for woodwind quintet
  • Louise Talma, The Ambient Air for flute, violin, cello & piano
  • Camille Saint-Saens, Piano Trio No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18
  • Libby Larsen, Black Birds, Red Hills for clarinet, viola & piano
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence for string sextet, Op. 70

Up Close 2: Scott Woolweaver and Mark Holloway, violas & Vivian Choi, piano

  • Sunday, April 8, 2018, 4 PM, Mary Norton Hall at Old South Church
  • Frank Bridge, There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook (arr. Benjamin Britten)
  • Paul Hindemith, Sonata for viola & piano, Op. 25, No. 4
  • George Benjamin, Viola, Viola
  • Arnold Bax, Sonata, GP 251
  • Johannes Brahms, Sonata in f minor, Op. 120, No. 1

Chamber Series 5: darers and dreamers

  • Saturday, April 21, 2018, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Sunday, April 22, 2018, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Claude Debussy, Sonata for flute, viola & harp
  • Bela Bartok, Contrasts for clarinet, violin & piano, Sz. 111, BB 116
  • David Bruce, Steampunk for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello & bass
  • Arnold Schoenberg, Phantasy for violin & piano
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost”

Chamber Series 6: opus twenty

  • Saturday, May 19, 2018, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Sunday, May 20, 2018, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
  • Benjamin Britten, Lachrymae “Reflections on a Song of John Dowland,” Op. 48
  • Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Palimpsest for flute, clarinet, string trio & piano
  • Igor Stravinsky, Divertimento from “The Fairy’s Kiss” for violin & piano (1932)
  • Colin Matthews, Fantazia 13 (after Purcell) for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
  • Felix Mendelssohn, Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

Free Family Concerts:

  • Saturday, June 2, 2018, 2 PM, Hyde Park Branch Library

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