Anne Azéma, Artistic Director
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The Boston Camerata
Anne Azéma, Artistic Director
Joel Cohen, Music Director Emeritus
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45 Ash St., Auburndale, MA 02466.
Anne Azéma, Artistic Director
Joel Cohen, Music Director Emeritus
I've sung with The Boston Camerata for many a season and many scores of concerts, and occasionally directed a Camerata production with my wonderful musician colleagues. This new season, however, marks my first as Camerata's Artistic Director, and I am thrilled at the opportunity.
The programs to come reflect my own experience as a European living in America. I've called our 2008-2009 season Lands of Pure Delight. The common theme of these concerts is exploration: migrations and immigrations, yearnings for distant love and dreams of lands not yet known. We will seek out, across several centuries, the joys, sorrow, pain, exhilaration of travelers and pilgrims, people, like us, in quest of a better place, both here on earth and within the human soul.
In November, just in time for some collective re-affirmation, fiddle and flute, fifes and drums, singing and dancing will lead us in a look at what is best in our own history and aspirations. At the Christmas season, in the company of other traveler friends from Europe, America, New Spain and the Caribbean, we will follow the Brotherhood of the Star, in search of the cradle. The spring program evokes, through music of the French Middle Ages, that ineffable love, far away, the Distant Haven perhaps never to be reached, but ever held dear in our own dreams.
Won't you join us? All of us, I, instrumentalists and singers, Music Director Emeritus Joel Cohen, and staff, look forward to seeing you soon in our concert halls for an extended voyage to Lands of Pure Delight.
-- Anne Azéma, September 2008
Lands of Pure Delight
Saturday,
November 8 at 8:00 pm,
First Church in Cambridge
11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
www.firstchurchcambridge.org
[directions]
Assisted by the
Revels and the
Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums
Songs, hymns, and instrumental music from the early years of the American republic, around the quintessential themes of freedom, redemption, and renewal in the New World.
Friday, December 12 at 8:00 pm,
Follen Church Society, Unitarian-Universalist
755 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, MA
www.follen.org [directions]
Saturday, December 13 at 8:00 pm,
First Church in Boston
66 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA
www.firstchurchboston.org
[directions]
Sunday, December 14 at 3:00 pm,
St. Martin's Episcopal Church
50 Orchard Ave., Providence, RI
www.stmartinsprov.org
[directions]
Monday, December 22 at 8:00 pm (rescheduled from Friday,
December 19)
First Church in Cambridge
11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA
www.firstchurchcambridge.org
[directions]
Saturday, December 21 at 8:00pm
First Church in Cambridge
11 Garden Street, Cambridge
www.firstparishofnewbury.org
[directions]
A rich holiday celebration from the Spanish speaking parts of the globe: from Spain and Catalonia in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and also from the New World in the Age of Discovery: With, as a constant counterpoint across the centuries, the powerful and seductive influence of Africa on Hispanic music of all sorts!
This production was presented December 7 and 8, 2008 at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. to sold-out audiences. Joan Reinthaler of the Washington Post reviewed the concerts.
First Lutheran
Church
299 Berkeley Street,
Boston, MA
www.flc-boston.org [directions]
Music and poetry recounting legendary quests, spiritual pilgrimage, and chivalric adventure: beautiful chants, songs and lais of the troubadours and trouvères, the finest creative spirits of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, performed by the top talents of the 21st.
For more information about upcoming events, please consult the Boston Music Intelligencer.
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