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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-17 22:30:47
After having written for BMInt for more than 13 years, and having authored 213 reviews, I continue to count the Chameleon Arts Ensemble among my favorites. This past Sunday at First Church in Boston, they delighted once again. For the opening of its 26th season, the Chameleons, under the ever-inspiring Deborah Boldin, dispatched an usual assortment of scores [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-05-22 01:13:11
Chameleon Paints With Music
Chameleon Arts Ensemble delivered a stirring, multi-faceted concert of works on the theme “from the painter’s hand” for its season closer on Saturday at First Church, Boston. Francis Poulenc had long considered writing a cycle of art songs about contemporary painters, Le travail du peintre, based on poems by one of his favorite poets, Paul Éluard. The chosen seven include Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Gris, Klee, Miro and the less well-known Jacques Villon. Mary Mackenzie’s beautiful, rich voice made us remember all over again that Poulenc is a great master of sublimating impulses into form and color. Her mien visibly adopting a different personality for each piece, Mackenzie embodied the aesthetic idiom of each painter, bringing out the artful contours of Poulenc’s meditations. Picasso, backed by jagged angular chords from pianist Vivian Choi, evoked a pictorial voice both fierce and melancholy; in Chagall we heard a joyful frisky piano and a […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-10-02 22:31:49
Night Scenes Span Centuries
Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s “Moon Dreams” culminated at last night in First Church Boston with Arnold Schoenberg’s expressionistic / Romantic Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string sextet. To Richard Dehmel’s namesake poem, which vividly conjures moonbeams revealing a couple drowning in sexual yearning, Schoenberg responded with swollen tonal and chromatic emanations. Unlike string quartet music, which demands years of listening-in to refine, this sextet pits vivid individuals in rapturous encounters with large emotions. Niceties of polish become secondary. Violinists Yoo Jin Jang and Robyn Bollinger, violists Scott Woolweaver and Mark Holloway, and cellists Rafael Popper-Keizer and Joshua Gordon continuously developed the varying themes with in-the-moment immediacy that embraced this apotheosis of its era. Never shading the grandiloquent grotesqueries, the ensemble also brought us tears of release. The stratospheric longings of Jang and the frenzied lyric impulses of Popper-Keizer were only the most noteworthy among the plenteous soloistic riffs. All six players […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-06-21 22:52:48
Daddy’s on First
Deborah Boldin (file photo) Known for its artful programming and world class players, the Chameleon Arts Ensemble offered the Sunday afternoon Shalin Liu audience a Father’s day tribute to one of the fathers of the Western canon: J.S. Bach. With a shifting number of players, the ensemble brought us works of this prolific parent and three of his sons: Wilhelm Friedemann, Johann Christian, and Carl Philipp Emanuel. Lauding Chameleon’s Artistic Director, Deborah Boldin, Rockport Music’s Artistic Director David Deveau joked that the program’s unofficial title should be “Who’s your daddy?” After the crowd erupted in laughter, he allowed that the program actually does ask questions of parenting, highlighting how J. S.’s sons slowly moved away from dad’s Baroque to their own Classical. Written during his tenure as Music Director and organist at the Dresden Church, W.F. Bach’s Sinfonia in D Minor F65 for the Gradual of the Mass followed […]
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