Performances



A Medieval Christmas:
Hodie Christus Natus Est

Experience our recent Harmonia Mundi CD release live and in-person! Transcendent Christmas music, featuring a superb all-female ensemble of voices and instruments. The sounds of Christmas spirituality from Medieval France, Italy, England, and Provence, including music of the church and songs of private devotion around the joyous theme of the Nativity. Included are songs to the Virgin Mary, processionals from Saint Martial of Limoges, hymns, lyrics, and miracle ballads sung in Latin, Old French, Old Provençal, and Saxon, interlaced with Medieval English texts of the Nativity.

2024 Program & Notes

 

Dec 1, 2024

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Beacon Hill Concert Music Hall
119 Barn Rd.
E. Stroudsburg, PA

Presented by Beacon Hill Concerts.
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Dec 5, 2024
3:00pm
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Lincoln Theater
2 Theater St.
Damariscotta, ME

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Dec 6, 2024
7:30pm
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First Church (Unitarian Universalist)
404 Concord Ave.
Belmont, MA

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Dec 7, 2024
7:00pm
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Dec 8, 2024
4:00pm
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Gordon Chapel at Old South Church
645 Boylston St.
Boston, MA

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A German Christmas:
In Dulci Jubilo

in dulci for AVIn the European North, the forests are deep; the nights are dark and long. Perhaps this is why, in reaction, the early Christmas music of the German-speaking peoples is so intensely joyful and profoundly rich. Our program explores the marvelous music of German Christmas festivity through chants and chorales, simple carols, grandiose polyphony, and instrumental fantasias of the 15th to early 17th centuries.

 

Dec 22, 2024
3:30pm
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Daniel:
A Medieval Masterpiece Revisited

The fiery prophecies of Daniel, young captive in corrupt Babylon, ring forth again. This stunning, contemporary new production by Anne Azéma of the greatest musical play from the French Middle Ages involves lights, movement, urgent poetry, and a sterling cast including seasoned professionals, children, and Longy School of Music of Bard College students, to make 1310 happen again, in 2025. Our singers and musicians are supported by Peter Torpey’s deeply evocative lighting and special effects.

 

Jan 19, 2025
2:00pm
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Trav’ling Home:
American Spirituals, 1770-1870

Travling Home smallerThe Boston Camerata’s pioneering programs of early American music have brought pleasure to thousands of music lovers, and have helped to clarify and define our country’s rich and diverse cultural identity. It traces migratory currents and flows of early American song, largely spiritual but also secular. Among the various communities participating in this rich American mosaic we encounter the Puritans of New England, the Shakers and their visionary monodies, Amish and Mennonites of Pennsylvania, and the newly-freed African-American religious communities. The musical sources of this program are drawn from European and New World oral traditions, hymns, psalms and chants in English, German dialects, early songbooks of Black churches, as well as gems from the still largely unpublished Shaker manuscript archive at Sabbathday Lake, ME.

 

Apr 26, 2025
7:30pm
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Trinity United Methodist Church
361 Sumner Ave
Springfield, MA

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Apr 27, 2025
4:00pm
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Old West Church
131 Cambridge St.
Boston, MA

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A Gallery of Kings:
Uses and Abuses of Power ca 1300

KINGSSongs and stories of powerful Kings, both good and bad, abound in the Middle Ages. “May he reign forever!” sings the crowd, but the monarch’s power is limited: by his fallible judgement, his formidable adversaries, his love of power, and his own, precarious mortality. These ancient songs of kingship and its snares in Latin, German, Galician, Old English and French resonate strongly down the centuries, into our own, turbulent time.

 

Jun 10, 2025
8:00pm
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Presented as part of the 2025 Boston Early Music Festival.
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