Amelia LeClair discusses Cappella Clausura

Amelia LeClair is Director of Cappella Clausura, an ensemble of voices and early music instruments in Boston whose goal is to research and bring to light works written by women from the eighth century to the present day. While they perform music of all time periods, their specialty is repertoire by women in the cloister, or in clausura, during the Italian baroque period. In this recording from February 7, 2011, Andrea O'Connell interviews Amy LeClair about their  performances of the the great motets of Sulpitia Cesis, a lute-playing nun from San Geminiano in Tuscany. The performances were assisted by an Alfred Nash Patterson grant from Choral Arts New England.