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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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the CyberCentaur sent to me this link to a petition requesting justice and restitution for our valued colleague Boujema Razgui.

Issue a formal apology and compensation to Boujemaa Razgui – petitions.whitehouse.gov

Boujemaa Razgui, a professional performer on traditional flutes, lost 13 precious flutes on 12/22/2013 when an uninformed and aggressive US Customs agent incorrectly decided that they were “agricultural products.”

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the CyberCentaur gave to me this incredible video about justice and devilry.
 
As the Boston Camerata sings and plays (from the CD “A Mediterranean Christmas“), some wayward genius on Youtube animates the Cantigas narrative with medieval imagery, most of it drawn from the Cantigas manuscripts themselves. And just to help you along, there are subtitles, in medieval Portugese…

 

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Over a quarter of a million people have now seen some version of this shocking story on the internet. The Boston Camerata expresses its solidarity with frequent collaborator, and fine artist, Boujemaa Razgui.
 
“Before you whine about an airline temporarily losing your luggage, think of poor Boujemaa Razgui. The flute virtuoso who performs regularly with The Boston Camerata lost 13 handmade flutes over the holidays when a US Customs official at New York’s JFK Airport mistook the instruments for agricultural products…”

 
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