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The Boston Camerata performed Free America!: Early Songs of Resistance and Rebellion at Faneuil Hall Photo: Dan Busler
The Camerata’s performance of “Free America!: Early Songs of Resistance and Rebellion” has garnered rave reviews from the Boston Globe, the Boston Classical Review, and the Boston Musical Intelligencer. Here are some highlights; to read the reviews in full, click on the links below!

“The singers — mezzo Azéma, soprano Camila Parias, alto Deborah Rentz-Moore, tenors Daniel Hershey and Michael Barrett, and bass-baritone Luke Scott — were exemplary in every way, from purity and expressiveness of voice to blending in duets and trios to diction to making eye contact with the audience.”
— Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Globe

“Under Azéma’s direction, the ensemble cast the songs in a bracing, down-home style, and with the verve of a village band, the performers captured an emotional immediacy fit for any age.”
— Aaron Keebaugh, Boston Classical Review

“Anne Azéma led the musicians of the Boston Camerata in the lively and moving “Free America!” at Faneuil Hall …the voices blend exceptionally well in every possible combination of duets and trios, whether of men, women, or mixed genders.”
— Steven Ledbetter, The Boston Musical Intelligencer

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The Concert will be held on October 5 at 8 PM in the Auditorium Cassin at Palais de la Musique et des Congrès.  Tickets are free courtesy of the City of Strasbourg in celebration of its 60 year sister-city relationship with the City of Boston.  Although free, tickets are limited and may be obtained at the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès prior to the concert.

Visit the Palais de la Musique et des Congres website for more information on tickets and parking.

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Grieving, we announce the death this weekend, from a sudden and massive heart attack, of our dear friend and colleague, British tenor Tim Evans. Tim was a superlative musician, alert, accurate, unfailingly musical. Tim was also a great companion on tours, home concerts, and media projects and sang with Camerata for 25 years. We are heartbroken that the new Camerata recording, only days from public release, in which he sings so beautifully, will be his last appearance with us. It will be a while before we can take the measure of this profound loss.

Our thoughts at this terrible moment go out to Tim’s family in Germany: his wife, Suse, and his two children, Emily and Benjamin.

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As our favorite 18th century lyric goes
(soon to be heard, by the way, on Camerata’s new, imminent Harmonia Mundi release):

“Boston is a Yankee town, sing Yankee Doodle Dandy!”


Join us on November 8, 2019 in Faneuil Hall
for
Free America! Songs of Resistance and Rebellion

So let’s rejoice in our freedoms, in the generosity and compassion of millions of our fellow Americans, and in our Yankee flair for thumbing our noses at all autocrats and tyrants!

And, oh yes, in our magnificent and liberating musical heritage.

‘Mind the music and the step!’
Enjoy this, our own, American peoples’ holiday!

— Anne and the musicians of the Boston Camerata