Boston Camerata's A Mediterranean Christmas

[alonewiththemoon]

M and I bought tickets to the December 11 Lexington performance of the Boston Camerata's A Mediterranean Christmas--so if anybody else is interested in going, you could have our company :-) We bought the expensive tickets, so we'll be in that section, but within the sections it's general admission. The show is in collaboration with Karim Nagi most famously of Turbo Tabla but also more relevantly in this case of the SHARQ Arabic Music Ensemble. From the website:

The Christmas narrative retold using songs, chants, and instrumental pieces from the countries of the Mediterranean basin: Spain, Italy, and southern France in Europe, but also north Africa and the Holy Land. Works are drawn from medieval manuscripts and more recent folklore and oral traditions. With voices, early instruments of Europe and the Middle East, as well as songs and texts in Spanish, Provençal, Italian, Galician, Turkish and Arabic.
Directed by Joel Cohen.

I saw a few pieces from this a couple of years ago and it was quite beautiful music (Kambriel, that was at the concert for Lebanon that we went to).
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Comments

[atalanta.livejournal.com]

I would love to go to this - I have a couple of their cds and this particular show sounds excellent. Wonder if we can work it somehow. Probably not. Hmm ..

[christianet.livejournal.com]

Wish I could be there!

[alonewiththemoon]

It does seem right up your alley :-)

It was lovely meeting you and Thom this week!

[kambriel.livejournal.com]

Oh yes... C & I went to their Mediterranean Christmas concert in Boston (at a gorgeous church with TIffany stained glass windows) a few years back. It was like having 5 Lisa Gerrards singing all at once!

*Highly recommended* and I'm glad you'll be there.

I've been feeling so homesick lately... I've been talking to C about an escape plan ;)