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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 Monday after the Machaut show, part of our Borrowed Light crew went to the Futura Studios in Roslindale, to record a movie sound track.  The soon-to-be-released film relates to our work with the Saarinen Dance Company. The Canadian production team (Raymond St Jean, director and Michel Ouelette) were with us  at Futura, as well as our Finnish colleagues Tero Saarinen and Iiris Autio, who flew in from Helsinki.

We saw wonderful images on the screen as we generated the musical track; can’t wait to see the final product! More news soon…


Photo, from left to right: Deb Rentz-Moore, Anne Harley, Tero Saarinen, Anne Azéma, Raymond St Jean, Don Wilkinson, Tim Evans, Dan Hershey at Futura Studios, March 2013

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Our secret sources tell us it was c-o-l-d in Finland last weekend. And especially so in the old, unheated warehouse building near Helsinki’s port, the place where shooting continued for an upcoming documentary film on Shaker spirituality and creativity. Camerata is a part of that production, and so is the Tero Saarinen Dance Company.

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Singers Anne Azéma and Anne Harley therefore bundled up, and so did the Saarinen dancers, as the film crew from Québec used the unusual architectural space, and the waning Scandinavian light, to create some striking images of movement to music. In one of our photos you can see Tero, the choreographer, monitoring the scene as soprano Anne Harley and dancer Ninu Lindfors get ready for a take.

We are as curious as you to see the edited version. A previous shoot took place last month in Sabbathday Lake, Maine, and we anticipate doing musical post-production in Boston in a couple of months. We’ll keep you posted, and get some clips online, as soon as that is possible. Meanwhile, the two Annes are getting warm again.

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Camerata fans and followers know Anne Azéma as a charismatic performer and a dynamic music director. What this newly released book reminds us, however, is that she’s also an internationally respected scholar.

The last essay in this collection of papers about the 13th century Tournoi de Chauvency is by her, and it’s a summing-up or envoi to the Metz project she guided a few seasons back. That groundbreaking project included Anne’s live, staged performance based on the Tournoi, a commercial CD, a colloquium, and now this impressive tome reuniting research and reflection by many highly regarded medievalists. The publisher is the top name in medieval studies, Droz of Geneva. We’ll be glad to help you obtain your copy should you be interested. Congratulations, Anne!

P.S. We still have a few copies available of the CD. Beautiful music.

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The Boston Camerata has been much in the news this summer.

As we have already noted, thousands attended our pair of outdoor Americana in Paris. Prior to those performances, Joel Cohen went on French TV to explain (in English!) what we were about to do; his segment begins at ~5:39 in the 12-minute program.

The respected Parisian daily La Croix also did a nice feature article/interview with Anne Azéma in anticipation of the events. And then read a rave review!

As a French-born American equally home in both cultures, Anne’s opinion is often sought after on general cultural/artistic issues affecting both sides of the Atlantic. A few days ago, Le Monde asked for her views on the state of the musical arts in America.

We expect more media coverage in the near future, and we’ll keep you up to date on the latest links.