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Here, for the current day, is a 19th-century Shaker song of resistance and combat. The Shakers may have been pacifists, but they certainly knew how to work up their energy and will against all challenges…take courage!

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“Because we are doing the music that we’re doing, we look backwards. The plague brought out the worst and best in people. So how best can we help now? What form will [our music take]?”

~ Anne Azéma

This article by Keith Powers features the thoughts of several leaders of Boston early music ensembles, including our own Artistic Director Anne Azéma as well as Kathleen Fay of the Boston Early Music Festival and Martin Pearlman of Boston Baroque, plus other perspectives from around the US.

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Boston Camerata
Photo credit: Dan Busler
TODAY, Sunday, April 19, Camerata’s Free America! program will be broadcast on WCRB In Concert at 7pm EST.

The program was recorded live last November at Faneuil Hall in Boston, the location of many revolutionary town meetings during the 1760s and 1770s.

You can tune in on your radio (99.5 in the Boston area) or online at www.classicalwcrb.org. The full program & notes will be available on the WCRB website after the broadcast, and can be downloaded here.

Click here for more information about the broadcast!

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An offering from Camerata, during this important week for both Jews and Christians. The psalm recounts the exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt, and we sing it, alternating verses, in both the (original) Hebrew and Latin versions. One tune comes from Jewish oral tradition; the other is the Gregorian “tonus peregrinus.”

But wait, aren’t they different versions of the same thing? And aren’t we all, on this mortal coil, brothers and sisters?
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