Houston Early Music

FLANDERS RECORDER QUARTET, with SUSAN HAMILTON, soprano

The Darke is My Delight — English Music from the Reign of Elizabeth I

Preconcert talk at 7pm?Kate Pogue, Houston actor, playwright, producer, director and author of Shakespeare’s Friends.

Houston Early Music will present Flanders Recorder Quartet with soprano Susan Hamilton in a concert of seventeenth-century English music from the reign of Elizabeth I. Playing recorders from their collection of 150 instruments, the Belgian ensemble will perform compositions by Byrd, Morley, Dowland and Ferrabasco with texts by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. The performance will be at 8:00 p.m., Monday, November 6 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman (at Main).

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ARTEK

Eine Kleine Abendmusik

Houston Early Music’s 2006-07 season opens Friday, September 29 with a return visit by New York-based ARTEK. The ensemble will perform a program of German baroque chamber music: sonatas by Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Philipp Krieger in the seventeenth-century “stylus fantasticus”, a sacred Latin motet of astonishing brilliance by Krieger, and sonatas displaying the early eighteenth-century integration of French, Italian and German styles by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach and the incomparable Johann Sebastian Bach. The performance will be at Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Blvd at 8:00 pm.

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Houston Early Music’s
2006-2007 Season

Music for the present… from the past.

World-class concerts of music from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century performed on historical instruments and using appropriate performance styles.

[Download the Season Brochure in .PDF format]

29 September

ARTEK

 6 November

FLANDERS RECORDER QUARTET
with SUSAN HAMILTON

11 February

Tapestry

16 March

ENSEMBLE CAPRICE

20 April

MONICA HUGGET
RICHARD SAVINO
WILLIAM SKEEN

12 May

EX UMBRIS

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