Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1LAziQk7SB/ 

On February 11th, the Mirror Visions Ensemble Facebook posted a wonderful video of their director, tenor Scott Murphree, performing Chris Berg’s “Lettre de Regret (excerpt from Chabrier’s letter to his son)” with Chris at the piano.

We can see here the rapture and intelligence of Berg’s ‘piano-playing face,’ which so often signaled a special very concentrated engagement mingled with lightness and drama as he attended to the intelligence of the score and performer alike — a very relieving sight to see again at this time!

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894) was a renowned French Romantic composer whose work is described as having precisely the qualitites that attracted Berg’s taste: ‘rhythmic verve,’ ‘orchestral invention,’ ‘exuberance,’ ‘unusual poignancy’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Chabrier

We’ll continue documenting Christopher Berg’s relationships with this composer and his context and with Mirror Visions Ensemble in future posts.

Mirror Visions Ensemble, an ensemble with which Christopher Berg collaborated extensively and enthusiastically, posted the following tribute on February 9 in honor of his passing:

MVE mourns the loss of dear friend and beloved composer Christopher Berg whom we’ve worked with closely over the years. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and family and we hope to share some of our previous collaborations this week to honor his memory, his friendship, and artistry.

Please consider following their page at the link below and watch this space for continued coverage of Christopher Berg’s rich and enduring relationship with Mirror Visions Ensemble:

https://www.facebook.com/MirrorVisionsEnsemble/posts/ChrisBergMemorialPost

https://www.mirrorvisionsensemble.org

This is an unlisted link (unsearchable via YouTube but accessible here, our current IP arrangement with Trinity Church) to Chris’s valedictory Trinity Wall Street concert of 2013.

Trinity Wall Street Presents: A Concert of the Songs of Christopher Berg February 28, 2013, 1pm

Naomi O’Connell, soprano

Jesse Blumberg, baritone

Christopher Berg, composer and piano.

The Trinity program notes for the concert are available at https://workinginconcert.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Berg-concert-CAO-Feb-28.pdf. And they’re amazing — very moving in the current context of freshly missing Chris.

If like me you have two screens available to you, I highly recommend following along with the lyrics on one screen while you watch the video of the performance on full screen on the biggest screen you have.

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CHRISTOPHER BERG Obituary

BERG–Christopher, a pianist, composer, and beloved brother, uncle and friend, died gently on February 8 in New York City at the age of 76. Witty, wry, tender-hearted and possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of literature and music, his last days were spent surrounded by family, friends, and favorite performances of operas by Mozart and Wagner. The world is not the same without him.

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Published on paper by the New York Times on Feb. 22, 2026.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/christopher-berg-obituary