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Treasures of Devotion, by the Boston Camerata under the artistic leadership of singer/director Anne Azéma, features a program of miniature masterworks by Josquin des Pres, Heinrich Isaac, Clemens non Papa, Claudin de Sermisy and others in sterling performances. This collection of early Renaissance spiritual pieces (and their related secular songs) were intended not for grand cathedrals or public ceremony, but for personal meditation, private chapels and rooms, family houses and assemblies.

Directly inspired by the examples of intricately carved boxwood devotional objects housed at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, these contemporaneous musical works are precise in their craftsmanship, rich in subtle details, and lead us to wonder and to contemplation.

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Dear Camerata Friends,

I’d like to invite you to an important, and free, humanitarian concert at Harvard’s Memorial Church, on Saturday afternoon, March 9. Some of Boston’s finest musicians (including several sterling Camerata soloists) will be joining together to raise funds for children and families currently in difficulty at the U.S.-Mexican border. I hope you agree with me, and my musician colleagues, that this is a very important cause.

We will be playing our hearts out for these kids and their parents, and we will also be requesting donations from members of the audience. All proceeds will go to the Cambridge Legal Defense Fund for Immigrants and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES).

Can I convince you to attend? We in the Boston musical community cannot solve all the world’s problems, but if we work together, musicians and public alike, we can indeed make a genuine difference in the lives of some real, precious human beings. Please join us on March 9, 3:00 P.M., at Memorial Church, Harvard, in music, solidarity, and hope!

Joel

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Vielle, Gittern, Harp

We regret to announce the passing of Dutch-born Margriet Tindemans.

She was equally at home in the music by the 12th century mystic Hildegard of Bingen, the music of renaissance Courts of Europe, the solo viol repertoire of the High Baroque as well as in the contemporary works by Kevin Volans and Joan Pranks Williams, who are among the many composers who dedicated works to her. This has made her one of the most sought after players of early bowed strings instruments worldwide. She maintains an active performing, recording and teaching schedule. She is on the faculty of the University of Washington School of Music and directs the Northwest Center for Early Music Studies and the Early Music Vancouver Renaissance and Baroque program. She has recorded for Harmonia Mundi Germany and France, Erato, accent, Classical Masters, EMI, Smithsonian Collection, Eufoda, CRD, and Koch International Classics.