Chameleon Arts Ensemble – To Wake the Dead: Tchaikovsky, Howells, Albert, Vierne

When:
Sunday, Apr 12, 2026 4:00p -
6:00p

Where:
First Church in Boston
66 Marlborough St
Boston, MA 02116

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Admission:
$54, $43 or $32

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Categories:
Music

Event website:
https://chameleonarts.org/concerts/to-wake-the-dead/

Tchaikovsky shares misty reflections of a dear place, and Howells contemplates an England, and a way of life, destroyed by the First World War. Vierne’s epic, late-Romantic treasure is a powerful and emotionally charged work conceived as a votive offering for his son who was killed in action. Stephen Albert adapts James Joyce’s nearly incomprehensible text – with its wordplay, dreamlike ambiguity, and half-remembered fragments – into a moving exploration of love, loss, and the cyclical nature of life itself.


PROGRAM

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir d'un lieu cher for violin & piano, Op. 42

Herbert Howells, Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet & strings, Op. 31 (1919)

Stephen Albert, To Wake the Dead: Six Sentimental Songs after Finnegans Wake for soprano & ensemble

Louis Vierne, Piano Quintet in c minor, Op. 42 (1917)


Tickets are $54, $43 or $32 with $5 off for students and seniors.

For more information or to order tickets, please call 617-427-8200 or visit http://www.chameleonarts.org.

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