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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

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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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