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Boston Camerata
“American Folk”
Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 3:00
Recital Hall - $34
Sponsored by
WSHU Public Radio 91.1 FM
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The ten superb musicians of The Boston Camerata have appeared in the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center and have been called “America’s most important early music ensemble” (Le Monde, Paris). In their program New Britain: The Roots of American Folksong, the ensemble of singers and instrumentalists present the roots of American folksong led by music director Joel Cohen. This landmark program was first created in 1976 for the American bicentennial year. Since then the Boston Camerata has explored the roots of early American music in a series of successful CD recordings: New Britain (1989), The American Vocalist (1992), An American Christmas (1993), Simple Gifts (1995), Trav’ling Home (1997), and The Golden Harvest (2001).
Boston Camerata features American folksongs of New England and the Appalachians alongside their models from Elizabethan England; songs of Old and New Spain; and tunes from the villages of Québec paired with their ancestors from Renaissance France.
‘Camerata,’ is a name derived from the Italian word for ‘salon.’ The Staller Center Recital Hall will mimic the intimacy of a salon, gathering people to enjoy an invigorating musical exploration from a group “exceptionally appealing and charismatic.” ( The Boston Globe).
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