Boston Camerata’s director emeritus, Joel Cohen, at home in Amesbury playing a Turkish lavta (lauta in Greece), continues to explore the common roots of musical civilizations.
(DINA RUDICK/GLOBE STAFF)
Classical Notes
A bridge traversed over decades
Camerata’s ‘Sacred’ work seeks out cultural similarities
Boston Camerata’s director emeritus, Joel Cohen, at home in Amesbury playing a Turkish lavta (lauta in Greece), continues to explore the common roots of musical civilizations.
(DINA RUDICK/GLOBE STAFF)
Joel Cohen can remember the first time he and the early-music ensemble Boston Camerata performed “The Sacred Bridge.’’ It was in a medieval church in Paris, a city whose Jewish quarter had just been rocked by a terrorist attack. It didn’t feel like the best time to roll out a concert exploring musical links between Christian and Jewish cultures in the Middle Ages. But they did, and “The Sacred Bridge’’ has endured and evolved, in the Camerata’s repertoire. It will be performed tomorrow at Longy School of Music.
For more from BostonGlobe.com, sign up or log in below
To continue, please sign up or log in to BostonGlobe.com
Access the full articles and quality reporting of The Boston Globe at BostonGlobe.com
Sign up
Unlimited Access to BostonGlobe.com for 4 weeks for only 99¢.
Are you a Boston Globe home delivery subscriber?
Get FREE access as part of your print subscription.
BostonGlobe.com subscriber
Click to continue reading this article or to log in to BostonGlobe.com.
