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!

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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A companion to the January, 2009 re-release, on Warner Classics, of three celebrated American music CD’s by The Boston Camerata. This music video and interview with Joel Cohen were produced in 1992 by Erato Disques, in conjunction with the original release of “The American Vocalist”.