Christopher’s Closet was composed in late July and the first three weeks of August 2007 for Latvian-born Canadian virtuoso Valentin Bogolubov, two-time recipient of the Delian Society’s Orpheus Award. Bogolubov, who had premiered Ford’s Three Chromicons in Quebec earlier the same year, had made plans to perform a special program featuring Debussy’s Children’s Corner and La boîte à joujoux, and invited Ford to take part in this new project.