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...Kathleen Fay, the executive director of BEMF, attributes much of the success to the city’s unusually active musical community...
...Boston, you can’t help but become immersed in early music if you’re a serious classical music lover,” says Fay. “We’re the world’s center for early music both because of this organization and the number of excellent performing groups and organizations that have concentrated around here...
BEMF was founded in 1980, according to Fay, by “leading practitioners of early music performance with a mission to promote and conserve the genre.” For years, it worked in collaboration with its sister festival in Berkeley and a smaller festival in San Antonio to bring early music to different areas of America...
...festival audience members now come from all over the world,” says Fay. “Once we did a survey and learned that 7 percent of our audience during festival week was from outside the country...
...Fay also notes the festival’s strong international radio presence, much of which has arisen from its relationship with Boston radio station WGBH. The station records BEMF performances and broadcasts them nationwide on National Public Radio, in addition to Britain’s BBC and Canada?...