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