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Houston Early Music Season for 2013-2014

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Houston Early Music Season for 2013-2014

Houston Early Music is pleased to offer this preview of our new 2013-2014 season. Venues of the concerts are not yet available, but here is the line up of artists and programs. You may now pre-order your season tickets. HEM2013A360

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Announcing our 2013-2014 season

FretworkGroup11-300Saturday, Nov.  2, 2013. 7:30 p.m.
FRETWORK, with LUTENIST ELIZABETH KENNY
Lacrimae:  Music of John Dowland in observance of the 450th anniversary of his birth.

 

Rose Ensemble 2011_outdooradjSunday, Dec. 15, 2013. 7:30 p.m.
THE ROSE ENSEMBLE
And Glory Shown Around: An Early American Christmas

 

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Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. 7:30 p.m.
THE BROKEN CONSORT
Muse, Modes, and Magic:  Music from the 13th – 17th centuries

 

image3_largeTuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. 7:30 p.m.
THE ORLANDO CONSORT
25th Anniversary Tour Concert: Vocal works from the 13th – 15th centuries

 

EnsembleCaprice_church_300dpiHispanic Heritage Series
Fri., April, 11, 2014. 7:30 p.m.
ENSEMBLE CAPRICE
Salsa Baroque: Baroque music from Latin America

 

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April 26, 2013: CANÇONIER

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Friday, April 26, 2013

CANÇONIER
The Black Dragon: Music from the time of Vlad Dracula
7:30PM, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church
6221 Main Street

A pre-concert talk with ensemble members will begin at 6:45 p.m.

PROGRAM NOTES | PRESS RELEASE

The San Francisco-based ensemble’s program features 15th-century music from the time of the infamous Vlad the Impaler, whose tyrannical rule shocked Europe. Ensemble member Shira Kammen is known by many in the area from her early-music performances in Houston. The program features the Lamentation for the Fall of Constantinople by Dufay, French and Italian dance music, German songs, Balkan folk songs, and more.

CANÇONIER Program Notes

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Program Notes and Artist Biographies for Cançonièr “The Black Dragon – Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula” 

 PROGRAM NOTES

The fifteenth century was a time of remarkable change in music, as musical conventions and practices evolved from medieval to early Renaissance styles. It also was a time of major transitions in art, religion, politics, and technology. During this century, Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, the printing press was invented, the Tudors took the crown of England, the Moors were expelled from southern Spain, Christopher Columbus sailed, Leonardo da Vinci was born and began to work, the Renaissance in Italy bloomed in full, and for a few years, a man who would become infamous ruled a small country called Wallachia in what is now southern Romania.

He was called Vlad Dracula (c.1431 – 1476). His father, Vlad II, adopted the name Dracul (“Dragon”) when he joined the Order of the Dragon, a chivalric order dedicated to crusading against the Turks in the Balkans. His son took the name Dracula, or “Son of the Dragon.” Dracula was, of course, partially the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s iconic anti-hero, though he was no vampire. 

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March 9, 2013: POÈME HARMONIQUE

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IN COLLABORATION WITH DA CAMERA OF HOUSTON

Saturday, March 9, 2013 
POÈME HARMONIQUE
Venezia dalle Calli ai Palazzi
8:00PM, Cullen Theater, Wortham Center
501 Texas Avenue

The ensemble’s Houston debut is presented in collaboration with Da Camera of Houston. Semi- staged in candlelight, the program of works by Claudio Monteverdi, Biagio Marini, Francesco Manelli and Benedetto Ferrari is a celebration of Venice in the Golden Age, when art music and popular forms came together and mingled, before emotion and language were restrained by rules and codes. 

Tickets available through our partner Da Camera of Houston

 

Texas Early Music Festival, March 8-10

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ARS LYRICA, MERCURY, DA CAMERA & HOUSTON EARLY MUSIC PRESENT HOUSTON’S FIRST ANNUAL “TEXAS EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL”

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Houston Early Music is teaming up to showcase Houston’s innovative Early Music programming in March, setting the stage for an annual state-wide festival.

On one weekend in March 2013, all four of the “Big Baroque” organizations in Houston – Mercury (formerly Mercury Baroque), Ars Lyrica, Da Camera and Houston Early Music – will have back-to-back early music programs. 

Our presentation  March 9, 2013: POÈME HARMONIQUE will be part of this festival. You can purchase tickets to all three events at the special price of $90

 

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 ARMONIA CELESTE

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EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 
ARMONIA CELESTE
Udite Amanti – Lovers Beware!
7:30PM, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church
6221 Main Street

 A pre-concert talk with ensemble members begins at 6:45 p.m. 

 

Download preview of program: Armonia Celeste Explores Love’s Perils

This up-and-coming group specializes in rarely heard music from the Italian Renaissance and early Baroque. In mid-17th-century Rome, the Barberini family was a great supporter of vocal chamber music. The program highlights Roman composers of the period, including Rossi, Carissimi and Cesti. To complete the historical picture, a copy of the famous Barberini harp, made for this prestigious family in 1635, will be played in this concert.

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December 11: BALTIMORE CONSORT

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Celebrate the Yuletide season with the engaging music of this dynamic group.With their always festive cornucopia of instruments—lute, cittern, viols, crumhorns, recorders, rebec and percussion—this virtuosic ensemble offers old carols and dance tunes from the British Isles, Germany, France, Spain and the New World.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

BALTIMORE CONSORT

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