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Contact: Gabriel Langfur
info@chameleonarts.org
617-427-8200
Chameleon Arts Ensemble presents "between eternity
and time"
February 15, 2008 - Boston, MA - The Chameleon Arts
Ensemble will present its fourth concert of the 2007-2008
season, entitled between eternity and time, on Saturday, March
15, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street
in the Back Bay. The program is built on a theme that Artistic
Director Deborah Boldin has been working on for several years.
"I'm fascinated by firsts and lasts," she says.
"There is a special place in the repertoire for the last
works of master composers. I am particularly interested in
contrasting those with early works, juxtaposing youthfulness
with the mature voices representing lifetimes of experience,
and the glimpses this gives us into the passage of time."
For this program, she has selected last chamber works by
Vaughan Williams and Schubert, and firsts by Maurice Duruflé
and fellow Frenchman Marc-André Dalbavie. Duruflé's
Prelude, recitatif et variations, Op. 3 for flute, viola and
piano was written as a memorial to the great music publisher
Jacques Durand (and as his only chamber work is also a last!).
Vaughan Williams' Ten Blake Songs for soprano and oboe were
composed for a film about the poet William Blake, but the
composer passed away before seeing the film or hearing a live
performance. The C Major String Quintet of Schubert, one of
the great favorites of the chamber music repertoire, was written
during his final illness and not published until decades after
his death.
Marc-André Dalbavie's In advance of the broken time
is the fourth of five Boston Premieres on the Chameleon season.
Born in 1961, Dalbavie is one of the most important and original
voices in French music today. In the early years of his career
he was associated with the French Spectralist composers, who
used, among other things, the mathematical examination of
timbre and its evolution over time to drive the compositional
process. In the 1990s he explored the innovative use of performance
space, placing orchestral and choral forces around concert
halls for a series of large-scale works that earned him international
renown. In advance of the broken time for flute, clarinet,
string trio & piano was composed in 1993, and was Dalbavie's
first piece of chamber music. The title refers to the first
ready-made created by Marcel Duchamp upon arriving in New
York, but also the compositional ideas being explored. Specifically,
Dalbavie was interested in speed and its various parameters:
slow, fast, acceleration, deceleration, and the relationship
of rhythm and tempo. He says, "In one sense, speed represents
the rhythmic and temporal equivalent of compression and expansion
in the harmonic domain…The real work in creating this
piece was in pursuing the idea of line, not in the usual musical
sense of melody, but rather in the image of the stroke of
a pencil on a drawing paper: its thickness, its curve in space,
its direction, its evolution, and above all its balance."
In a city immersed in music, the Chameleon Arts Ensemble
is distinguished by superb artistry, luminous performances,
and dynamic musical dialogues. This innovative ensemble draws
capacity audiences of those who love the adventure of music-classic
and contemporary. A Chameleon concert is a multifaceted experience
in an intimate environment joining audience and musicians
in an exuberant celebration of music. The musicians are award-winning
local artists with growing national and international reputations,
who have appeared with orchestras and in recitals around the
world. Since its founding in 1998, Chameleon and artistic
director Deborah Boldin have earned high praise for integrating
old and new repertoire into unexpected chamber music programs
that are themselves works of art, and were recognized nationally
with a 2007 ASCAP/CMA award for adventurous programming. In
a recent review, Jeremy Eichler of The Boston Globe praised
her "discerning ears and cosmopolitan tastes" and
remarked that "planning a good chamber music program
is an art unto itself, and few in town have mastered it as
persuasively as the Chameleon Arts Ensemble."
For tickets or more information, concertgoers can call 617-427-8200
or visit www.chameleonarts.org. Individual tickets are $38,
$28 and $18. $5 discounts for students and seniors are available.
The Goethe-Institut is a wheelchair accessible venue.
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