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Taking a break at the April, 2013,
recording sessions in Boston.

A new documentary film featuring music and onscreen performance by The Boston Camerata has just won two awards at a Canadian film festival.

“A Chair Fit for an Angel,” by director Raymond Saint Jean, was named best Canadian documentary and best French-Canadian documentary at the March, 2014 FIFA film festival in Montreal.

All the music for the film, including onscreen interviews and performances, as well as soundtrack music, was supplied by The Boston Camerata, co-directed by Anne Azéma and Joel Cohen. The subject of the documentary is Shaker culture and art.

In addition to Camerata’s Shaker songs, choreography by Tero Saarinen, from the music and dance production “Borrowed Light,” is also featured. Several sequences depict interactions between Camerata soloists and the dancers of the Saarinen company.

The film will have its first showings in Europe in early April. Distribution/release in the United States has not yet been announced.

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the CyberCentaur sent to me this link to a petition requesting justice and restitution for our valued colleague Boujema Razgui.

Issue a formal apology and compensation to Boujemaa Razgui – petitions.whitehouse.gov

Boujemaa Razgui, a professional performer on traditional flutes, lost 13 precious flutes on 12/22/2013 when an uninformed and aggressive US Customs agent incorrectly decided that they were “agricultural products.”

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the CyberCentaur gave to me this incredible video about justice and devilry.
 
As the Boston Camerata sings and plays (from the CD “A Mediterranean Christmas“), some wayward genius on Youtube animates the Cantigas narrative with medieval imagery, most of it drawn from the Cantigas manuscripts themselves. And just to help you along, there are subtitles, in medieval Portugese…

 

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