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Article: Shaker songs celebrate life with honesty
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 19, 1994
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THE BOSTON CAMERATA
Joel Cohen, music director
At: Tanglewood's Seiji Ozawa Hall, Wednesday evening
LENOX -- All kinds of little things went wrong with the Boston
Camerata's program of folk hymns of New England Wednesday night. But
in the end everything important turned and came around right. This
was a program rich in historical interest, musical significance and
spiritual power.
The major rediscovery was a selection of spirituals from the
Shaker communities of New England and Kentucky, many of which were
probably being heard for the first time in more than a century. The
Shakers sang these songs in unison, without accompaniment, and that's
how the Camerata sang them too. Cohen ...