Our resident angels (3 women’s voices plus vielle and harp) will be singing extraordinary medieval music at heaven’s gate this Sunday, April 13 in Cambridge. Come hear some of the most beautiful sounds south of Paradise! Last year’s Easter season program was a sellout, so don’t wait too long….more info and reservations here and here.
A new documentary film featuring music and onscreen performance by The Boston Camerata has just won two awards at a Canadian film festival.
“A Chair Fit for an Angel,” by director Raymond Saint Jean, was named best Canadian documentary and best French-Canadian documentary at the March, 2014 FIFA film festival in Montreal.
All the music for the film, including onscreen interviews and performances, as well as soundtrack music, was supplied by The Boston Camerata, co-directed by Anne Azéma and Joel Cohen. The subject of the documentary is Shaker culture and art.
In addition to Camerata’s Shaker songs, choreography by Tero Saarinen, from the music and dance production “Borrowed Light,” is also featured. Several sequences depict interactions between Camerata soloists and the dancers of the Saarinen company.
The film will have its first showings in Europe in early April. Distribution/release in the United States has not yet been announced.
This photo was taken in Trieste a couple of nights ago. But Anne is returning to the Boston area very shortly, to direct and sing “Gates of Heaven,” the smash hit program from the 2011 Reims Festival. Tickets are on sale now, a word to the wise…