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Contact: Gabriel Langfur
info@chameleonarts.org
617-427-8200
Chameleon Arts Ensemble presents a hundred onward years
October 8, 2008 - Boston, MA - The second concert
of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble's eleventh chamber music season,
titled a hundred onward years, is on Saturday, November 8
at 8 PM at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street in
the Back Bay. The program is a Chameleon-style exploration
of music history fifty years at a time, beginning joyfully
with Beethoven's Serenade in D Major for flute, violin &
viola, Op. 25 from 1801 and winding up in the 21st century
with Aaron Jay Kernis' Trio in Red for clarinet, cello &
piano of 2001. In between are Robert Schumann's d minor Violin
Sonata, Op. 121 (1851), Charles Martin Loeffler's Deux Rhapsodies
for oboe, viola & piano (1901), and Lou Harrison's Songs
from the Forest for flute, violin, vibraphone & piano
(1951).
The history of Western concert music is relatively short,
but changes in style and syntax have often been fast and radical.
This program begins with the youthful Beethoven, still very
much under the influence of Haydn and before he ushered in
the age of Romanticism in music - which had no better advocate
than Robert Schumann a short fifty years later. Charles Martin
Loeffler was European-born and educated, but made his career
as Assistant Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony before retiring
to compose full-time in a style that reflected the diverse
German, French and Russian influences of his upbringing. Lou
Harrison was a thoroughly American composer, proudly gay and
unapologetically political, a student of Henry Cowell, correspondent
and scholar of Charles Ives, and a close friend and collaborator
with John Cage. Harrison sought out musical inspiration from
every conceivable source, including the most avant-garde twelve-tone
techniques, Asian, Indonesian and early American music, and
electronic sounds.
Last but certainly not least, Aaron Jay Kernis is one of
today's most decorated American composers, described by The
New York Times as "an eclectic composer who seems to
draw on everything from pop forms to the most abstruse modernist
styles, and he uses these disparate elements to create works
that are colorful and inviting but never simplistic."
Only 48 years old now, Kernis had a premiere by the New York
Philharmonic when he was only 23, and went on to be the youngest
composer ever to receive a Pulitzer Prize, awarded for his
String Quartet No. 2 ("musica instrumentalis") in
1998. He won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition
in 2002 for his work Colored Field, making him the youngest
composer to win that prize as well.
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 unqualified 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. 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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