A Chair Fit For an Angelat Brattle Theatre, dir: Raymond St Jean [75 min]
A feast for the eyes, A Chair Fit For An Angel explores the cultural heritage of the American Shakers through dance, singing, architecture, woodworking, and features artists who keep their legacy alive.
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Wonderful Early American Songs And Hymns
RIP Mary Ann Whaley
Mary Ann, a fine musician and a lovely person, participated in two Boston Camerata recordings, “Simple Gifts” and “Angels.” We are saddened by her passing.
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OUR 2014-2015 SEASON TICKLES THE MEDIA
From this morning’s Boston Globe:
Songs of the young republic

Wicked Local Newburyport writes about the upcoming Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, and Boston Camerata’s presentation of “Verdant Grove: Nature and The Seasons in Early New England” on Sunday, August 10.
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Wonderful Early American Songs And Hymns

Verdant Grove is coming!
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Featuring “A Chair Fit for an Angel”

with The Boston Camerata, at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA., August 8.
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Celebrate The Roots Of American Song

TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR CAMERATA’S ONLY SUMMER APPEARANCE IN THE BOSTON AREA!
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NEW FILM GETS U.S. PREMIERE AT THE MAINE FILM FESTIVAL!

This grab shot from Sunday’s Waterville, Maine, festival event reunites some of the creative team behind “A Chair Fit for an Angel”. We were especially delighted by Philippe, the film editor, who came down to see it from Montréal on his motorcycle. The rest of us chose more prosaic means of locomotion to arrive at the theater…a lively question period followed the screening, and we think the film, which has already won two awards in Canada, is going to generate a lot of interest in the coming months.
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ADIUSSIATZ, PIERRE BEC (11 Dec 21 – 30 Jun 14)

Professeur émérite et distingué, poète, Pierre Bec était notre mentor, collègue et ami. Ce fut un immense privilège de bénéficier de sa collaboration pendant les préparations des enregistrements de la Camerata Mediterranea (Lo Gai Saber, Le Fou sur le Pont, et Cantigas), et pendant les neuf merveilleuses saisons des stages de la Boston Camerata sur les troubadours à Coaraze, France. english Continue reading

