Thank you to everyone who took our survey over the past two weeks! The Camerata is committed to building upon our 60+ year history of unique programs and audience engagement, and we value your input.
As promised, here is a summary of the results:
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As Camerata plans its future, we are seeking your opinion on some vital questions.
In the confines of our home, most of us have experienced streaming music recently. Perhaps you have also enjoyed some of Camerata’s recent online moments, shared with our friends via our newsletter and social media.
So here is where we turn to you. If it should happen that concert venues, performance halls and churches, are not open to us for the 2020-2021 Boston Season, we are actively exploring the possibility of creating an online presence for you and others. We have prepared a short survey (3-4 minutes) to hear what you would like to see and hear from the Camerata in the months ahead.
Thank you very much for participating in this inquiry. When it’s complete, we will share the results with you.
Keep Music Alive!
Brett Donham
President
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This video, from our Treasures of Devotion program, features a longing Dutch love song and a polyphonic setting of Psalm 4 based on the same tune.
In a rave review of the Treasures of Devotion recording, Johan van Veen “compliment[s] the singers for their command of Dutch.”
We are well aware, as are you, of all the problems and uncertainties that come with this grave health crisis. Our first, overriding concern, for you and for all of us, is our continued safety and good health. Yet despite all obstacles — those we all meet as fellow humans, and those which are specific to the performing arts — we at Camerata are determined to keep the redeeming grace of music alive and present in today’s world. Please see our hopeful vision under Upcoming Performances.
Camera’s final Boston season concert, “The Three Sisters,” will not take place as originally scheduled. Please stay tuned for further updates on this performance.
Patrons already holding tickets: we will reach out to you.
Meanwhile, please stay healthy and may our lives continue to be full of music!
Sadly, we regret to inform you that all performances by The Boston Camerata for the remainder of the 2019-2020 season will not take place as planned because of continuing concerns around the coronavirus/COVID-19, as well as essential restrictions on public activities. We certainly appreciate your understanding of this decision and look forward to seeing you at our future concerts and events in 2020-2021.
Meanwhile, please stay healthy and may our lives continue to be full of music!
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We regret not having the opportunity to share this production with our friends in Chicago and Kansas City this month. But we hope to make this happen for all of us another time.
Meanwhile, here is a short clip of our 2016 production of The Night’s Tale, in collaboration with and at Longy School of Music of Bard College.
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Our esteemed Victoria Bocchicchio, stalwart General Manager for most of the previous 12 months, has departed because of family reasons. She will be much missed, but she remains close to us as a volunteer and general guiding spirit.
Meanwhile, we welcome Caitlin Laird (top right in the picture) to this vital post. Caitlin, a musician and scholar as well as an admirable administrator, has hit the ground running, with plenty of good new ideas and upbeat energy.
Continuing on the team are Peter Smith, business manager extraordinaire, Joel Cohen, emeritus purveyor of Facebook posts, and Anne Azéma, who continues to look benevolently at office business when her nose is not buried in musical scores. Camerata’s musical spirit flows on!
As contemporary history unfolds hour by hour, Camerata’s music once again brings the ancient stories of conflict in Iraq and Iran to the forefront of our consciousness.
This stunning, contemporary new production by Anne Azéma of the greatest musical play from the French Middle Ages involves lights, movement, urgent poetry, and a sterling cast including seasoned professionals, children, and students, to make 1310 happen again, in 2020. A national tour in January and February will bring this magnificent production to audiences on the West and East coasts.
Please read further for dates and times; you will not want to miss this event.
