This performance is not included as part of the Camerata’s 2026/2027 season subscriptions.
Music, say our American ancestors, may soothe the heart, but it also sustains the search for values.
This program explores, in a present moment when American ideals are undergoing such deep challenges, the vital and life-affirming sounds of the young Republic, as its citizens sang and played forth their love of freedom and their rejection of tyranny.
The rough-hewn sounds of New England citizen-composers still ring true and strong to our contemporary ears. And so do Liberty’s attendants — feminists, abolitionists, freed slaves, religious minorities and the insolent scallywags of “Yankee Doodle” — all remind us that in our musical roots lies our true strength.
These songs, both written and from oral traditions, offer an enlarged, intercultural perspective on the music played and sung in the early republic’s first century. They will include marches, anthems, spirituals and ballads, restating our commitment to democracy. First commissioned by the Paris Philharmonie in 2018, a new Harmonia Mundi CD.
Genre: American
Oct 25, 2026
4:30pm
Music, say our American ancestors, may soothe the heart, but it also sustains the search for values.
This program explores, in a present moment when American ideals are undergoing such deep challenges, the vital and life-affirming sounds of the young Republic, as its citizens sang and played forth their love of freedom and their rejection of tyranny.
The rough-hewn sounds of New England citizen-composers still ring true and strong to our contemporary ears. And so do Liberty’s attendants — feminists, abolitionists, freed slaves, religious minorities and the insolent scallywags of “Yankee Doodle” — all remind us that in our musical roots lies our true strength.
These songs, both written and from oral traditions, offer an enlarged, intercultural perspective on the music played and sung in the early republic’s first century. They will include marches, anthems, spirituals and ballads, restating our commitment to democracy. First commissioned by the Paris Philharmonie in 2018, a new Harmonia Mundi CD.
Genre: American
Dec 4, 2026
7:30pm
This performance is not included as part of the Camerata’s 2026/2027 season subscriptions.
A much-loved Camerata holiday program returns two generations later! We celebrate Christmas in the English speaking world down through the centuries, with wonderful songs and carols from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to early America. While most music presented here is art
music — transcribed from old manuscripts and prints — the means of expression are generally direct and simple, with a strong folk and popular vein. Camerata’s top soloists, voices and instruments, offer a unique experience at year’s end. Get into the holiday spirit with “Edi be the hevene quene“!
Genre: Christmas
Dec 5, 2026
7:00pm
A much-loved Camerata holiday program returns two generations later! We celebrate Christmas in the English speaking world down through the centuries, with wonderful songs and carols from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to early America. While most music presented here is art
music — transcribed from old manuscripts and prints — the means of expression are generally direct and simple, with a strong folk and popular vein. Camerata’s top soloists, voices and instruments, offer a unique experience at year’s end. Get into the holiday spirit with “Edi be the hevene quene“!
Genre: Christmas
Tickets are available for 3:30pm & 6:30pm performances.
A much-loved Camerata holiday program returns two generations later! We celebrate Christmas in the English speaking world down through the centuries, with wonderful songs and carols from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to early America. While most music presented here is art
music — transcribed from old manuscripts and prints — the means of expression are generally direct and simple, with a strong folk and popular vein. Camerata’s top soloists, voices and instruments, offer a unique experience at year’s end. Get into the holiday spirit with “Edi be the hevene quene“!
Genre: Christmas
Dec 21, 2026
5:00pm
This exuberant, vivacious program celebrates Christmas with music from the Spanish speaking parts of the globe: Renaissance Iberia, and the Hispanic settlements of the New World. Encounters among indigenous Americans, the Spaniards, and West Africans produced some extraordinary musical results—unusual vocal colors, soulful melodies, and irresistible rhythms, sustained in our production by winds, Iberian harp, and percussion. The exceptional singers and instrumentalists of the Camerata (Colombia, North America, and Europe) are joined by Pan-American choral singers.
Genre: Christmas
Mar 9, 2027
7:30pm
Spain in the Middle Ages, like contemporary America, was a nation of diverse religions and cultures. In the thirteenth century, Alfonso X the Wise (1221-1284) called himself “King of the Three Religions”, and welcomed Jewish, Christian, and Muslim musicians, artists, and thinkers to his multi-ethnic court. The concert program is an attempt to recreate the unique musical, poetic, and spiritual climate of Iberia in the thirteenth century. Using King Alfonso’s magnificent collection of songs to the Virgin Mary as its central element, the program weaves Jewish and Islamic elements around the Christian songs. The performers, all recognized experts in their fields of medieval and/or Andalusian music, come, like the musicians at Alfonso’s court, from the different musical and religious traditions that made up the court orchestra of the Wise King.
Genre: Mediterranean
Mar 10, 2027
7:30pm
Spain in the Middle Ages, like contemporary America, was a nation of diverse religions and cultures. In the thirteenth century, Alfonso X the Wise (1221-1284) called himself “King of the Three Religions”, and welcomed Jewish, Christian, and Muslim musicians, artists, and thinkers to his multi-ethnic court. The concert program is an attempt to recreate the unique musical, poetic, and spiritual climate of Iberia in the thirteenth century. Using King Alfonso’s magnificent collection of songs to the Virgin Mary as its central element, the program weaves Jewish and Islamic elements around the Christian songs. The performers, all recognized experts in their fields of medieval and/or Andalusian music, come, like the musicians at Alfonso’s court, from the different musical and religious traditions that made up the court orchestra of the Wise King.
Genre: Mediterranean
Apr 20, 2027
7:00pm
This performance is not included as part of the Camerata’s 2026/2027 season subscriptions.
Camerata’s offering to the spirit of spring: a conversation, via fabulous, age-old music and poetry, and very much from the female point of view, around the always-contemporary themes of desire, yearning, and fulfillment. These songs will be performed by a virtuoso consort of women in love (or not).
Genre: Medieval
This exuberant, vivacious program celebrates Christmas with music from the Spanish speaking parts of the globe: Renaissance Iberia, and the Hispanic settlements of the New World. Encounters among indigenous Americans, the Spaniards, and West Africans produced some extraordinary musical results—unusual vocal colors, soulful melodies, and irresistible rhythms, sustained in our production by winds, Iberian harp, and percussion. The exceptional singers and instrumentalists of the Camerata (Colombia, North America, and Europe) are joined by Pan-American choral singers.