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We recently learned that Nicolas Linfield, one of Camerata’s most valued and important collaborators during the 1970’s and early 1980’s, died in Florida last December.

Many, many of you have heard Nick’s voice on the “Medieval Christmas” and “Sing We Noel” Nonesuch albums, reading in his utterly convincing and eloquent version of Chaucerian English. Those beautiful recorded performances, we are glad to say, are still available commercially, and continue to delight thousands.

Besides reading texts, Nick was a gifted educator, scholar, mime, and actor. He exuberantly road-managed Camerata’s first European tour in 1975 and became a friend and confidante to several of us. We think back on those years, their joys and sorrows, with a great deal of emotion.

In this photo, recently unearthed from an old box of slides, we see Nicholas Linfield, right, acting in his own edition of the middle-English “Third Shepherd’s Play,” alongside Mark Baker (left) and the late Robert J. Lurtsema (center), during a mid-1970’s performance of “A Medieval Christmas” at Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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Over a quarter of a million people have now seen some version of this shocking story on the internet. The Boston Camerata expresses its solidarity with frequent collaborator, and fine artist, Boujemaa Razgui.
 
“Before you whine about an airline temporarily losing your luggage, think of poor Boujemaa Razgui. The flute virtuoso who performs regularly with The Boston Camerata lost 13 handmade flutes over the holidays when a US Customs official at New York’s JFK Airport mistook the instruments for agricultural products…”

 
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…goes to dear friends Tesair and John of North Cambridge, who sheltered and nourished two wayward Camerata musicians, stranded by the now-famous Commute from Hell of December 17, and unable to return home after rehearsals. (One of us finally made it home, but needed a tow after two hours in the Ted Williams tunnel…)

The good news is, the entire cast of “A French Christmas” is now comfortably post-snowstorm-trauma, and ready to give you all a magnificent, luminous musical experience over the next four nights. Here, once again, is the local schedule. A few good seats still remain. See you there!

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The CyberCentaur

December 19, First Church, Cambridge, MA
December 20, Hancock United Church of Christ, Lexington, MA
December 21, First Parish Church, Newbury, MA
(and also December 22, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.)

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“Richly varied and inspiring….full of reverence and joy” — The Boston Globe.

 
We hope you were waiting for this one :-) It’s an album unlike any other, as Camerata, assisted by the Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble, returns to the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern roots of the Christmas story.

 
And now you can download it — at a very advantageous price.Make your hard disk hum! And please share the news with your friends…

 
You can get the music here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thebostoncameratajoelcoh4

 
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The CyberCentaur

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“…because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

— Nelson MANDELA, 1918- 2013

We pay respectful homage to Madiba.

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…this major engagement. We’d love to see as many FB friends as possible in Paris :-) Venez nous voir à Chaillot!

Join us for a Friends of Tero Saarinen Company event in Paris!

Tero Saarinen Company and The Boston Camerata will perform Borrowed Light at Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. The shows on March 13 – 15, 2014 are nearly sold out. But, we’ve put aside a few tickets from the best seats of the house for our friends for Friday, March 14.

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