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| | Camerata |
 | | It was the resident ensemble 1974-6 at the Shaw Festival and appeared at the Stratford Festival, the Guelph Spring Festival, and the Algoma Fall Festival, at the Orford and CBC Summer Music Festivals, at Festival Ottawa, and at Stratford Summer Music. |
 | | Camerata devised special 'concert theatre' presentations, eg, Soirée-musicale (the re-creation of a 19th-century salon concert) and, for children, versions of Oscar Wilde's story The Canterville Ghost, with music commissioned from Norman Symonds, and of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, and an amalgam of Saint-Saëns, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev, and a stage gorilla, entitled Camerata Zoo. |
 | | Camerata toured Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela in 1976 and made a European tour in 1977, performing in England at the Harrogate Festival in Yorkshire and the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester, and in London. |
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