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Chameleon Arts Ensemble performs Milhaud’s Creation of the World Suite

First Church in Boston 66 Marlborough Street, Boston

The critically-acclaimed Chameleon Arts Ensemble begins its 2019-2020 chamber music season “at the beginning,” with Darius Milhaud’s jazz-age ballet score, La Création Du Monde in his arrangement for piano quintet, Op. 81b. The work is a vivid portrait of the creation of the world based on African folk mythology that blurs the line between Parisian fashion and pagan ritual. Also on the concert are Mahler’s first – and only – chamber work, the Piano Quartet…

$22 – $49

Chameleon Up Close: Harp Trios by Debussy, Ravel, Rameau, Gubaidulina

Old South Church 645 Boylston Street, Boston

Chameleon Arts Ensemble resumes its popular Up Close recital series with a program of harp trios at the crossroads of the old and the new, featuring flutist Deborah Boldin, violist Scott Woolweaver, and harpist Franziska Huhn. Debussy’s classic recalls the elegance of the French baroque, enrobed in his gorgeous 20th century sound world. Sofia Gubaidulina’s Garden of Joy and Sorrows similarly blends past and present through delicate whispers and otherworldly effects. Rounding out the program…

$44 – $49
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Chameleon Arts Ensemble performs Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet

First Church in Boston 66 Marlborough Street, Boston

The Chameleon Arts Ensemble resumes its 2019-2020 chamber music series with a tribute to Mozart titled “whose fragments we inherit.” Romanticized by history as the ultimate child prodigy, Mozart produced a staggering body of work in his 36 short years, glorious music of crystalline clarity and sublime beauty. With a masterpiece among masterpieces, his Quintet in A Major, K. 581 gave birth to the voice and soul of the clarinet. Steven Stucky’s Serenade for wind…

$22 – $49

Chameleon Arts Ensemble performs Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet

First Church in Boston 66 Marlborough Street, Boston

The Chameleon Arts Ensemble resumes its 2019-2020 chamber music series with a tribute to Mozart titled “whose fragments we inherit.” Romanticized by history as the ultimate child prodigy, Mozart produced a staggering body of work in his 36 short years, glorious music of crystalline clarity and sublime beauty. With a masterpiece among masterpieces, his Quintet in A Major, K. 581 gave birth to the voice and soul of the clarinet. Steven Stucky’s Serenade for wind…

$22 – $49

Chameleon Up Close: Piano Trios by Schubert, Tower & Clara Schumann

Old South Church 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA

At its best, chamber music is a conversation between friends, and nowhere is that more apparent than within the piano trio genre, grand canvases filled with intimate expression. Join violinist Robyn Bollinger, cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer, and pianist Vivian Choi for a Chameleon Up Close recital exploring these themes. Clara Schumann’s under-appreciated gem – her g minor Piano Trio – embodies the drama of the Romantic era with transparency and grace. Joan Tower’s Big Sky, is…

$44 – $49

Chameleon Arts Ensemble performs Shostakovich, Beethoven, Haas, Part

First Church in Boston 66 Marlborough Street, Boston

Resilience of the human spirit is the central theme for the Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s April program. Pavel Haas completed his third String Quartet in 1938 as Czechoslovakia was being annexed, three years before he was interned at the Terezín camp and later murdered at Auschwitz. His singular musical language carried forward the Czech traditions instilled in him by his teacher Janáček, with influences of Jewish and Moravian folksong, chant, and jazz. While at Terezín, he…

$22 – $49

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Chameleon Arts Ensemble performs Brahms, Schumann, Gideon, Szymanowski

First Church in Boston 66 Marlborough Street, Boston

Chameleon Arts Ensemble closes its 22nd chamber music season with “a thousand tales sung” featuring five fantastical works of whimsy and enchantment. Robert Schumann’s Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, viola, and piano transports us to a magical world of innocence and fairy tales while Miriam Gideon offers a parody of children’s verse with her Rhymes from the Hill for soprano, clarinet, cello, and marimba. Karol Szymanowski’s 1915 Mythes for violin and piano conjures shimmering reflections of Narcissus…

$22 – $49

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