The Camerata brings the soul of the American founding generation to life through hymns, polyphonic songs, and ballads. This concert will explores the vital and life-affirming sounds of the young Republic as its citizens sang and played forth their love of freedom and their rejection of tyranny. The rough-hewn works of citizen-composers, such as Boston tanner William Billings or Vermont tavern-keeper Jeremiah Ingalls, still ring true to our contemporary ears.
Harvard’s glorious Memorial Church will resound with partsongs, marches, anthems, jigs, and ballads from the young Republic, a time when citizens sang their rejection of tyranny! Rousing works by citizen-composers such as Boston tanner William Billings and Vermont tavern-keeper Jeremiah Ingalls still ring true today. WIth the Choral Fellows of Harvard University (Edward Jones, dir.) young professionals from Longy School of Music of Bard College, and Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums.
