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…this major engagement. We’d love to see as many FB friends as possible in Paris :-) Venez nous voir à Chaillot!

Join us for a Friends of Tero Saarinen Company event in Paris!

Tero Saarinen Company and The Boston Camerata will perform Borrowed Light at Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. The shows on March 13 – 15, 2014 are nearly sold out. But, we’ve put aside a few tickets from the best seats of the house for our friends for Friday, March 14.

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…from the first page of the incredible, 13th century Carmina Burana manuscript. And, just under the picture, the opening song of the Boston Camerata concert on October 27. Yes, we’ve figured out how it goes — so come hear how we solved the puzzle, and revel in some of the best medieval music you could ever hope to hear!

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…IN CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND

The Parker Library at Cambridge, England currently houses one of the most important of all medieval musical manuscripts, the INCREDIBLE Vogüe-Ferrell Codex of music by Guillaume de Machaut. And it was our own Anne A., in the company of Shira Kammen and Fabio Accurso, who was chosen to sing some of the ravishing melodies from that source, to a select crowd of British patrons, movers and shakers…

Our spies were present for that early September event, and have sent us this post-performance snapshot. Having recently produced major Machaut events in Reims, the U.S., and the U.K., Anne now confides to us that she is on a Machaut roll….stay tuned for more!

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…Joel Cohen’s fiftieth, at Brown University, where we were invited in late May to perform excerpts of our “Carmina Burana” program. We asked Joel, who led Camerata soloists and the Brown Madrigal singers for the event, how he felt about performing a selection of medieval student songs, fifty years past his graduation day. “Actually, I am not introspecting that much,” he replied. “Just trying to get this show on the road.”

But the performance was, in fact a smash success, earning bravos and a standing ovation from the capacity crowd at Brown’s Andrews Hall. Congratulations to Brown’s guest-of-honor Joel and to all the performers, and mark your calendars as the full-length “Carmina Burana” production, this time under Anne Azéma’s direction, returns to Boston on October 27!

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It’s true, the crowd of people with numbers in their hands,  waiting in line to hear our Cambridge concert resembled Zabar’s on Sunday morning….but we understand that everyone who waited was eventually seated.

Steven Ledbetter, former Boston Symphony Orchestra annotator, and critic for the Boston Musical Intelligencer, wrote:  “We heard superb musicians, among the most highly regarded in this repertory in the worldwide company of early music performers. Technical issues were handled with aplomb, giving the impression that they have sung this music from birth… To hear a work of such historic significance and power in a complete liturgical setting … on the night before Easter, performed with such complete mastery of the materials and the style made for a thrilling sense of artistic time travel, a fact recognized by the enthusiastic standing ovation from the packed house. “

Another attendee blogged: “My wife and I were in tears so taken were we by Camerata’s thoughtful planning–the chapel, the singers, the music heard “

What a privilege for us,  Camerata musicians, board,  and staff, to share this incredible music with our Amherst and Cambridge audiences!

Photo: The Boston Camerata, Convivium Musicum and Anne Azéma: Ite Missa Est! Machaut Mass, Cambridge, March 2013