Interviews with Joel Cohen (in French)…
in France Musique about the upcoming Paris performances:
Borrowed Light de Tero Saarinen au Théâtre National de Chaillot,
and video:
Joël Cohen – La matinale
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Preparing to knock them dead in Abu Dhabi!
If you have missed Shira and Anne in the United Arab Emerates you will have another chance to catch them in Boston on April 13 (Portes du Ciel – Gates of Paradise, 4 pm EDS Chapel, Cambridge).
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Our friends and colleagues travel far and wide…
…this week, three members of our inner circle
are all in Abu Dhabi to present an East-West storytelling program. We wish them luck, as well as a few relaxing hours in the warm weather :-)
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“BORROWED LIGHT” TOUR ABOUT TO GET UNDERWAY
“Borrowed Light,” the world-reknowned music-and-dance production based on Shaker music, is about to have its première performances in Paris, France.
Under Anne Azéma’s direction, The Boston Camerata is preparing to collaborate once again with the Tero Saarinen Dance Company of Helsinki, Finland, for a series of March performances in Europe. Choreographed by Saarinen and sung live by Camerata musicians, “Borrowed Light” has now had over seventy appearances in Europe, North America, and Australasia, but has never until now played in the City of Lights.
“We are thrilled at the Paris invitation,” comments Azéma. “It’s happening in one of Europe’s most important performance halls, the Palais de Chaillot, and it’s a joy to be singing and dancing there.”
The tour begins on March 5 with two shows in Finland, before moving to the Paris venue.
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REHEARSING FOR FINLAND AND FRANCE
The March, 2014, “Borrowed Light” tour in Europe is only a few weeks away….today the female half of the cast convenes to rehearse singing, staging, and a little hand music, all part of the show. You have rarely heard womens’ voices blend so beautifully!
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Boston Camerata mourns a British stalwart
Nicholas Linfield, a professor of English Literature who appeared on one of the Camerata’s top-selling records, has died in Florida, aged 73. more…
RIP NICHOLAS LINFIELD
We recently learned that Nicolas Linfield, one of Camerata’s most valued and important collaborators during the 1970’s and early 1980’s, died in Florida last December.
Many, many of you have heard Nick’s voice on the “Medieval Christmas” and “Sing We Noel” Nonesuch albums, reading in his utterly convincing and eloquent version of Chaucerian English. Those beautiful recorded performances, we are glad to say, are still available commercially, and continue to delight thousands.
Besides reading texts, Nick was a gifted educator, scholar, mime, and actor. He exuberantly road-managed Camerata’s first European tour in 1975 and became a friend and confidante to several of us. We think back on those years, their joys and sorrows, with a great deal of emotion.
In this photo, recently unearthed from an old box of slides, we see Nicholas Linfield, right, acting in his own edition of the middle-English “Third Shepherd’s Play,” alongside Mark Baker (left) and the late Robert J. Lurtsema (center), during a mid-1970’s performance of “A Medieval Christmas” at Marblehead, Massachusetts.
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A first for Camerata, of sort…
A first for Camerata, of sorts. We are part of a story on Fox News. The CyberCentaur, in his quadruped wisdom, trots right by this one.
On the twelfth day of Christmas…
the CyberCentaur sent to me the silliest video he could find: the Mozart Turkish Rondo massacred by the Boston Camerata, assisted by Dünya. Happy New Year!
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