Boston Camerata Explores Early Christmas Music from Germany in Cambridge

The Boston Camerata's Christmas concerts are by now a Boston-area and national tradition. This holiday season, the Camerata brings In Dulci Jubilo: A German Christmas, to Cambridge on December 19. The program celebrates the joyous holiday music of Renaissance Germany in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jubilant chants and chorales, simple carols, grandiose polyphony, and rich instrumental fantasias dominated the music of this period. Many melodies that came into being during the German Renaissance are still beloved and sung today during the holiday season in Europe and in America.

A German Christmas will feature the Boston Camerata Wind Ensemble and an expanded consort of voices and early instruments: Anne Azéma, Daniel Hershey, Camila Parias, Deborah Rentz-Moore, John Taylor Ward, voices; Brian Kay, Steven Lundahl, Liza Malamut, sackbuts; Nathaniel Cox, cornetto, theorbo; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba.

"I grew up in Strasbourg, France, right on the border of Germany," says Boston Camerata Artistic Director Anne Azéma. "I heard both French and German spoken and sung from early childhood, and these Christmas melodies are part of who I am. What a joy to share them now, in my adopted home!"

December 19, 8pm, First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA
Tickets: $25-$55. Please check website for more information.
For more information: bostoncamerata.org or 617-262-2092