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.
The kids were touched by beauty and that is a miracle. . . You are changing lives!
– Oscar Olmos, Director, Everett Hispanic Children’s Choir
The whole program (La Estrella) was delightful but the joined voices of the children, the Caribbean singers, and the Camerata mainstays filled me with overwhelming joy.
– Rick Heym, Longtime Camerata patron
Has Camerata’s music brought joy to you as well, this year? Have you taken pleasure in our live concerts, our recordings and radio broadcasts, our Facebook or Instagram posts, our music online? If so, will you consider, as 2019 draws to a close, a tax deductible gift, small or large, to our vigorous, nonprofit enterprise? Every dollar helps keep this priceless music alive, and allows Camerata and its musicians to continue on our mission. Please do think of us, and with many thanks!
This has been quite a year for so many; we know! Yet, as you can see from this concert photo taken only a few days ago, Camerata’s music continues with gusto, as we accomplish our mission to bring joy and healing to all who wish to receive it.
So much good has befallen the Boston Camerata during this past year, and there are so many achievements to look back on as we prepare for 2020, a new recording and major national tours. Here are just a few highlights:
Consistently beautiful and compelling live performances from our superb core roster of singers and instrumentalists, meriting standing ovations from just about everywhere we appeared on two continents
International touring, including the marvelous Boston-Strasbourg sister cities commemoration, last September
Encouraging levels of support from donors, large and small, giving us the means and the will to continue and to improve our work
…which brings us to our next-to-final point: those gifts quite literally enable us to go on. We could not exist without them. Among our many blessings, this financial help from our friends is by no means the least. As 2019 draws to a close, won’t you help us with a donation, large or small? You will have the satisfaction of knowing that what you do makes our music bloom, and helps make the world a more kind and compassionate place!
And, finally, we wish you all a blessed holiday season, filled with light and love.
Your tax-deductible contribution will be acknowledged in our programs and in other ways. You may make an unrestricted gift of any size, large or small, and you will be loved and even serenaded in return.
“I was at the Miracles de Notre Dame performance last night. It was completely breathtaking. Your arrangement of Las Las Las was one of the most haunting pieces of music I’ve ever heard.”
The Concert will be held on October 5 at 8 PM in the Auditorium Cassin at Palais de la Musique et des Congrès. Tickets are free courtesy of the City of Strasbourg in celebration of its 60 year sister-city relationship with the City of Boston. Although free, tickets are limited and may be obtained at the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès prior to the concert.
Visit the Palais de la Musique et des Congres website for more information on tickets and parking.
Grieving, we announce the death this weekend, from a sudden and massive heart attack, of our dear friend and colleague, British tenor Tim Evans. Tim was a superlative musician, alert, accurate, unfailingly musical. Tim was also a great companion on tours, home concerts, and media projects and sang with Camerata for 25 years. We are heartbroken that the new Camerata recording, only days from public release, in which he sings so beautifully, will be his last appearance with us. It will be a while before we can take the measure of this profound loss.
Our thoughts at this terrible moment go out to Tim’s family in Germany: his wife, Suse, and his two children, Emily and Benjamin.
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.
Harmonia Mundi CD