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Everett Hispanic Children's Choir
Photo by Dan Busler

“Overwhelming Joy…The Camerata changes lives”

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!

Happy New Year!


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Photo by Dan Busler
Dear friends,

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
  • TWO new CD releases, “Treasures of Devotion” and “Free America,” each one unique in its genre, each one warmly received by audiences and critics alike
  • 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.


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tickets

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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.

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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.

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As our favorite 18th century lyric goes
(soon to be heard, by the way, on Camerata’s new, imminent Harmonia Mundi release):

“Boston is a Yankee town, sing Yankee Doodle Dandy!”


Join us on November 8, 2019 in Faneuil Hall
for
Free America! Songs of Resistance and Rebellion

So let’s rejoice in our freedoms, in the generosity and compassion of millions of our fellow Americans, and in our Yankee flair for thumbing our noses at all autocrats and tyrants!

And, oh yes, in our magnificent and liberating musical heritage.

‘Mind the music and the step!’
Enjoy this, our own, American peoples’ holiday!

— Anne and the musicians of the Boston Camerata