From: richter@haus.org
Subj: Early Music workshops and concerts in Austin, coming up!

January and February can feel like a quiet time after all the holiday pandemonium has died down, but there are some musical events coming up in Austin to take note of!

Friday, January 29 – Harmonia Ariosa, a concert of Baroque music featuring Laurie Young Stevens, Manfredo Kraemer, Paul Leenhouts, Phoebe Carrai and a galaxy of other early music stars;  8pm, St Mary’s Cathedral in downtown Austin; more details at the Texas Early Music Project Website, http://www.early-music.org/ .

Saturday, February 6 – MidWinter Recorder Workshop by Paul Leenhouts;  9am-5pm at Triumphant Love Lutheran Church in Austin, $35 fee;  more details at the Austin ARS chapter Website, http://main.org/austinars .    (Download a flyer for this event.)

Saturday, February 13 – World Music Recorder and Percussion Workshops by Nina Stern and Peter Maund;  10am-3pm at First Presbyterian Church in Austin, $35 for entire workshop or $20 for one session; more details athttp://main.org/austinars .  (Download a flyer for these events.)

Same evening (Feb 13) – Wanderings, a concert by Nina Stern and Peter Maund;  8pm, First Presbyterian Church in Austin; more details at http://main.org/austinars .

To register for either workshop, reply to this email, or follow the directions on the ARS Website.

Houston Early Music would like you to be aware of the following event:

Austin Troubadours Present:
Mediterranean Journey(Medieval and Renaissance music of Mediterranean countries)

Please send mail to svujisic@austin.rr.com or call Slobodan at   512/331-2856 for more info

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Houston Early Music wishes to bring to your attention the following program of interest to early music lovers:

You can find more information and purchase tickets at the Jewish Community Center website.

Chamber Music and More…

Current issue: October/November 2008

Additional listings for late November: More November 2008

Saturday, March 29, 7:30 pm
St. Philip Presbyterian Church
Tickets: $15, available at the door

Our annual collaboration with the Moores School of Music Collegium Musicum features Giocomo Carissimi’s vivid oratorio on the story of Jonah and the whale. Music of other rarely heard 17th-century Roman composers completes Ars Lyrica’s tribute to the eternal city.

More at Ars Lyrica

Chamber Music and More…

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Houston’s early-music scene is getting another major boost with the founding of the Heinrich Schütz Choir of Texas.

Based at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Midtown, the new ensemble debuts on April 20 with a Vesper service featuring Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien, an hour-plus work considered the composer’s most important funeral music. Allen Hightower, director of choral activities at Sam Houston State University, will conduct. The initial concert will feature 24 singers, period instruments and other works of Schütz.

more … Schütz choir to offer new early-music venue | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

April 10, 2008, Residency at the High School at the Performing and Visual Arts
Lecture Performances about early stringed instruments (specifically viols/ violas da gamba) for music & history students

April 11, 2008, Residency at Johnston Middle School
Lecture Performances about early stringed instruments (specifically viols/ violas da gamba) for music & history students

For more information see http://violsinourschools.org/

Focusing on Music, History (European History) and English (Music of Shakespeare’s time) classes. A pilot program for the Viola da Gamba Society of America and the Spirit of Gambo, a Chicago Consort of Viols, ‘Viols in Our Schools’ focuses on bringing early strings to the classroom setting. With the viola da gamba/ viol’s connection to the evolution of the guitar (via the lute), it is an ideal instrument to introduce earlier repertoire to guitar classes, while it’s frequent use in the madrigal repertoire and use as a continuo instrument makes the viol an ideal for demonstrating to choral classes as well as to music theory and history classes. In addition to music programs, ‘Viols in Our Schools’ demonstrates early European music to European history classes, as well as English/ Literature classes focusing on Elizabethan/ Shakespearen England. You can visit ‘Viols in Our Schools’ at http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

WHAT:
ARS LYRICA HOUSTON PRESENTS A MARIAN FEAST

WHEN:
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2008 at 7:30 PM

WHERE:
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
800 Bagby
Houston, Texas 77002

TICKETS: 
Hobby Center at 713.315.252 or www.thehobbycenter.org, $25 general, $20 seniors, $15 student/group rates

A Marian Feast

Alessandro Scarlatti, the Neapolitan master of the opera and oratorio, has long been an Ars Lyrica favorite. This program juxtaposes his “Stabat Mater” (Mary’s lament at the crucifixion) with an oratorio on her immaculate conception (recorded by Ars Lyrica and soon to be released on Naxos!).

More at Ars Lyrica

Cantus invitation to choir directors