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Keith Powers
The Chameleon Arts Ensemble has always been different.
The Chameleons have blended the unexplored with the familiar since they began giving concerts in 1998. The ensemble’s most recent program a Brahms trio, among the most familiar, along with settings from Birtwistle, Kodaly and Coleridge-Taylor is an on-point example of Chameleon’s aesthetic.
Founder and artistic director Deborah Boldin sums it up: “All our programs have something contemporary, something off-the-beaten path, and a standard. In that blueprint there’s always variety.
“It’s the combination that makes it,” she says. “I can almost hear it in my head before it happens, what textures go together. The more variety, the more perspectives we have. And it informs the way we hear the classics. You hear them differently.”