Weekend Concert Series
Celebrating Chrysanthemums
Sunday
October 25, 2026
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
Order your tickets starting July 29 at 10 am. Members and patrons enjoy exclusive access to tickets before they become available to the public on Wednesday, August 5. And member rates apply—$56 to $79 per ticket.
In celebration of the Museum’s annual John Lowell Gardner Chrysanthemum Installation in the Courtyard, we present this exploration of the chrysanthemum as a muse for musicians and writers. An all-star cast is joined by the Gardner’s Stanley P. Kozak Director of Horticulture Erika Rumbley and Abrams Curator of Music George Steel.
Program
Jules Massenet
C’est au temps de la chrysanthème (1882)
Léo Delibes
Chrysanthème (1889)
Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi (1890)
Scott Joplin
The Chrysanthemum: An Afro-American Intermezzo (1904)
Dora Pejačević
Chrysanthemums (1908)
Nikolai Harito
Ottsveli khrizantemy (1910)
William Penn
Chrysanthemums (1912)
Zbigniew Maciejowski
Chryzantemy złociste (1939)
Ernesto Lecuona
Crisantemo (before 1940)
Tōru Takemitsu
From far beyond Chrysanthemums and November fog (1983)
Xiaogang Ye
December Chrysanthemum (2006)
Juantio Becenti
Piano Trio: III. In the Greenhouse (2019)
Artist
Celebrating Chrysanthemums Performers are:
Kara Dugan, mezzo-soprano
Peter Dugan, piano
Katherine Winterstein, violin
Gabriela Díaz, violin
Mina Lavcheva, violin
Cara Pogossian, viola
Jia Kim, cello
Emi Ferguson, flute
Cory Pesaturo, accordion
Erika Rumbley & George Steel, hosts
Dennis Miller Bunker (American, 1861 – 1890), Chrysanthemums (detail), 1888. Oil on canvas, 90 x 121 cm (35 7/16 x 47 5/8 in.) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
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This performance is made possible by the Anne Hawley Fund for Programs.
Music at the Gardner is supported by the Nora McNeely Hurley Foundation. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Scott Nickrenz Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Joseph Mari, Sallie and Jim McGregor, Nicie and Jay Panetta, and The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.
