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Our beloved friend and mentor Andrea von Ramm died suddenly in Munich last November. Her disappearance leaves a hole in the center of our very being. The image you see was taken during rehearsals for Andrea’s last appearance with us, the Tristan we gave in Graz, Austria in June, 1999. This is the Andrea we will always remember: gossiping on a cell phone as she cradles a medieval organetto, full of contradiction, full of life and spunk.

What an incredible privilege to have known her, for more than twenty-five years of meals, jokes, speculations, arguments, and musical collaborations. And what a fantastic legacy of song and performance she leaves behind. There is noone like her, she can never be replaced, but she can at least inspire us as we try to measure up to the standards she set.

-Joel Cohen

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In recent seasons Arthur Jaffe’s delightful Center for Book Arts, of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, sponsored several events around the work of the Boston Camerata’s Anne Azéma and Joel Cohen. Arthur died peacefully yesterday at an advanced age. We remember him with gratitude and affection. The following text, dated January 14, must have been one of the last that he composed. How honored we feel to have been in his generous thoughts.
 
“Hello again, Arthur Jaffe here.
 
“One of my favorite things about the Jaffe Center for Book Arts is its diversity of ideas. Our staff often comes up with program ideas that have nothing at all to do with the book arts, at least at the surface, and there are times when I think the place would be better named the Jaffe Center for Creativity. This is certainly the case with two programs coming up later this month with members of The Boston Camerata. I think a lot of you will think you’ve never heard of The Boston Camerata, but if you listen to Public Radio, you’ve heard their music. They are one of the leading ensembles researching, recording, and performing early music today, and I love the way The Boston Camerata makes early music come alive for contemporary audiences.”
 

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You toured with Camerata in Europe several times, read the Christmas story, in your own Occitan translation, on our “Nativitat” recording, and collaborated with great, benevolent energy in a number of our medieval music workshops . Through the years you remained a warmhearted, generous friend with a big soul. It was a privilege to have shared many happy hours with you; may you rest in peace.
 

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The Boston Camerata, whose second homeland since 1974 has been France, sends, in this moment of grieving, a fraternal message of sympathy and solidarity to the people of that much-esteemed land.
 
La Camerata – dont les attaches depuis 1974 avec la France sont profondes, et les activités dans l’hexagone, fréquentes, envoie ses messages amicaux de solidarité en ce grand moment de tristesse: Nous sommes tous Charlie.
 

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The constantly evolving and inventive musical minds of Italian and French masters during the fourteenth century has left us with repertoires, both sacred and secular, that successfully unite the search for new and different creative paths with astonishing lyricism and sensual beauty.
 
In this specially commissioned program for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you will hear music spanning the worlds of God and Man, by the greatest composers of their day: Machaut, Landini, da Bologna, and others, performed by the Camerata’s virtuoso singers with harp, vielles and bells.
 
March 6th, 8:00pm, MIT Walker Memorial Hall, Cambridge, MA