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Photo by Dan Busler
Dear friends,

This has been quite a year for so many; we know! Yet, as you can see from this concert photo taken only a few days ago, Camerata’s music continues with gusto, as we accomplish our mission to bring joy and healing to all who wish to receive it.

So much good has befallen the Boston Camerata during this past year, and there are so many achievements to look back on as we prepare for 2020, a new recording and major national tours. Here are just a few highlights:

  • Consistently beautiful and compelling live performances from our superb core roster of singers and instrumentalists, meriting standing ovations from just about everywhere we appeared on two continents
  • TWO new CD releases, “Treasures of Devotion” and “Free America,” each one unique in its genre, each one warmly received by audiences and critics alike
  • International touring, including the marvelous Boston-Strasbourg sister cities commemoration, last September
  • Encouraging levels of support from donors, large and small, giving us the means and the will to continue and to improve our work

…which brings us to our next-to-final point: those gifts quite literally enable us to go on. We could not exist without them. Among our many blessings, this financial help from our friends is by no means the least. As 2019 draws to a close, won’t you help us with a donation, large or small? You will have the satisfaction of knowing that what you do makes our music bloom, and helps make the world a more kind and compassionate place!

And, finally, we wish you all a blessed holiday season, filled with light and love.


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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.