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    Cappella Clausura


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    Cappella CLAUSURA is an ensemble of sopranos, altos, and early music instruments in Boston whose goal is to research and bring to light works written by women from the 8th century to the present day. Our intention is to dispel the notion that there are not now nor have there ever been gifted women composers. While we perform music by all women composers, and champion living composers, we concentrate on repertoire by women in the cloister, or in clausura, during the Italian baroque period because it was an extraordinary time when women were allowed, by fluke of historical personalities and fashion, to express themselves spiritually and artistically, and most importantly, to be published. History has been blind and deaf to these remarkable works; Cappella Clausura brings vision and voice to them.

     

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        Cappella Clausura

        12 Jenison St
        Newtonville, MA 02460

        Phone: 617-964-6609   |   Email   |   Official Website

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          Article: Cappella Clausura Unites Music & Dance for Christmas Offering
          Classical Voice of New England - Mar 15, 2010
          By Patrick Valentino

          Newton, MA, 12 December 2009. In an event entitled Gloria: A Renaissance Christmas Pageant, voices and instruments mixed with live action to create a multi-disciplinary meditation on the Christmas story in the First Unitarian Society in Newton.
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          Newton, MA, 12 December 2009. In an event entitled Gloria: A Renaissance Christmas Pageant, voices and instruments mixed with live action to create a multi-disciplinary meditation on the Christmas story in the First Unitarian Society in Newton.

          The collaborators in this evening of music making and dance were the 7 female voices and the ensemble of period instruments of Cappella Clausura, the sacred dance company Creationdance, and, as was revealed at evening’s end, we the audience as well. The concept of providing an acted dumb-show while Medieval and Renaissance music filled the air was admirable and mostly well-executed. In fact, except for a very few logistical hiccups or the occasional artistic faux-pas, this concert was one of the most impressive I’ve seen and heard in a long time in concept alone. Collapse

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          Article: Twelve Centuries of New Music from Capella Clausura
          Boston Musical Intelligencer - May 18, 2009
          By Laurence Berman

          Cappella Clausura, a women’s chamber chorus founded and directed by Amelia LeClair, has worked tirelessly in the last five years to bring to the public’s attention music written steadily by women for 12 centuries.

          Of the six composers re… Expand

          Cappella Clausura, a women’s chamber chorus founded and directed by Amelia LeClair, has worked tirelessly in the last five years to bring to the public’s attention music written steadily by women for 12 centuries.

          Of the six composers represented in last Sunday’s concert, I had not heard of four, much less heard a note of their music. And I call myself a music historian. Most importantly, the pieces of the four “unknowns” have nothing of the amateurish about them, despite the fact that all four composers would – officially, at least – have to be styled “amateurs.” But if the pieces on the program are any indication, they were, in one way or another, intimately connected to the developments of their own day. Moreover, the material is masterfully handled.

          The music of mid-century Italy seems to make no distinction between sacred and profane love; and the quality of voice of the members of the ensemble who sang the respective solos seemed exactly right for the protagonist in question. The Cappella Clausura and its programming radiate good judgment and imagination. Collapse

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        • Event Name: The Great Motets of Sulpitia Cesis
          5 out of 5 stars rating "As Always, Blown Away"
          Review posted by: Andrew Butler from Boston, MA, Mar 02, 2011

          A stellar performance - perfectly put me in the mood for the Easter season. These ladies are professionals- it sounds like Westminster Cathedral or St. Peter's when they open their mouths. I won't be... Expand

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