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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-04-22 00:36:55
Four Hands and Round Tables
Elizabeth Schumann (file photo) A recital devoted entirely to music for piano four-hands for an audience seated around tables is a true rara avis, but it is not surprising from the enterprising and eclectic Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston. In one of its “up close” programs, pianists Gloria Chien and Elizabeth Schumann performed at the Goethe-Institut Boston Sunday. Characteristically, the artfully chosen works “had something to say to each other.” In this regard, the remarks of Chameleon’s Artistic Director, Deborah Boldin supplemented the very good printed notes. Regarding the performers, I can hardly pay a higher compliment than to say that if I closed my eyes at any random moment, it seemed as if one person were playing (albeit with four hands), such was their unanimity of ensemble, phrasing, articulation, even rubato. We began with Claude Debussy’s Six épigraphes antiques, evocations of ancient Greece (from 1894 poems of Pierre Louÿs) […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-03-10 00:21:34
Brilliance From Two Chameleons
Rafael Popper-Keizer (file photo) Now in its 17th season, Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston has just introduced cabaret-type concerts, called “Up Close.” The first, last Sunday afternoon at the Goethe-Institut Boston, one of their usual venues, featured the brilliant, peripatetic cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer with the equally brilliant pianist Vivian Chang-Freiheit. Seated around 20 small tables with the instrumentalists in the middle, 80 attendees were treated to a most memorable performance, also wine and chameleon-shaped cookies baked by Artistic Director Deborah Boldin. Before the afternoon’s four pieces, Boldin spoke briefly, illustrating with short excerpts, to explain how she put the program together and to have us see how the cello became a breakout instrument over the years. Having won awards for her illuminating programming, Boldin put together works for cello and piano by Richard Strauss, Elliott Carter, Frank Bridge, and Beethoven. I had not heard the first three, but off-the-beaten-path pieces […]
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