concert 1: moon dreams

Saturday, October 1, 2016, 8 PM
First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

Sunday, October 2, 2016, 4 PM
First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

Our season opener immerses us in a world of moonlit mysteries and fractured dreams. Bloch’s second violin sonata came to him after a night of feverish delirium, Rebecca Clarke evokes the Greek god of sleep, and Schoenberg’s sumptuous early masterpiece stands at the end of the great tradition of 19th century German Romanticism.

program

• Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus for viola & piano (1917)
• Brett Dean, Night Window for clarinet, viola & piano
• Ernest Bloch, Violin Sonata No. 2 “Poème mystique”
• John Woolrich, In the Mirrors of Asleep for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
• Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht for string sextet, Op. 4 “Transfigured Night”

artists

Deborah Boldin, flute
Robyn Bollinger, violin
Vivian Choi, piano
Gary Gorczyca, clarinet
Joshua Gordon, cello 

Mark Holloway, viola
Yoo Jin Jang, violin
Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello
Scott Woolweaver, viola