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Join us on social networks

Webmaster — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:28:31 +0000

Houston Early Music now has presence on Facebook and Twitter. If you use these social networking services, you may follow us there, and please tell your friends about us.

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Houston-Early-Music/192859875500
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Houston Early Music adds Online Ticket Service

Webmaster — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:20:57 +0000

Houston Early Music is pleased to announce that you can now purchase tickets to our performances on our web site, using major credit cards. We are using the Brown Paper Tickets service, especially suited for non-profit performing arts organizations. Brown Paper Tickets allows Houston Early Music to offer this service at very low cost, ensuring that the maximum amount of your ticket price goes for actual concert expenses.

At this time, the first concert Red Priest is available for sale. In a few weeks we will add the remaining concerts to this service.

Click to purchase tickets to Red Priest

Houston Early Music in the news

Webmaster — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:55:00 +0000

A message from Magali Candler, President of Houston Early Music

Webmaster — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:39:52 +0000

Dear Friends of Early Music,

I hope this message finds you and your family well, fully recovered from any ill effects of Hurricane Ike, and ready to celebrate the holidays and the new year.

Houston Early Music’s season has been celebrated by all, as well, starting with an extraordinary evening of music by La Donna Musicale in September, bringing the sounds of the Parisian salon with music of women composers of the French Baroque in the Rococo style. This was followed by a beautiful concert by the accomplished and internationally renowned harpsichordist, Richard Egarr, who performed J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Klavier, Book I in its entirety in November. Last week Libris Unusualis, a Boston-based vocal group, performed our Christmas concert of music from the Middle Ages. This well-attended concert was described by audience members as “ethereal,” with others telling me that they were “transported” by the beautiful voices and the perfect acoustics of Trinity Episcopal Church.

Although the storm impacted attendance and ticket sales for our opening concert, held less than two weeks after the hurricane in a different location than the original due to damage at our publicized location, our most recent concerts have been better attended. This, despite the heavy rain the night of the Richard Egarr concert and the week-day night Christmas concert. As always, we continue our educational outreach in the community, including an event held at the Houston High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, where we presented Richard Egarr (and a harpsichord) to the students, who were delighted to hear him play and to attend his master class. We have every right to be proud of our over 40-year-old organization, but are hopeful that more patrons of the arts in Houston will hear of our world-class concerts and artists and publicize to others in the city and the state the excellent work we do in bringing world renowned artists to this city.

Our next concert (Fretwork’s “Happy Birthday Henry!”) will be on Saturday, January 17, at 8:00pm at Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Avenue. The British group Fretwork, with mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson, will help us celebrate Henry Purcell’s 350th birthday. If you have not already purchased tickets, please do so today and visit our website, houstonearlymusic.org, for more information.

As a friend of the organization, it is important for you to know that the consequences of Hurricane Ike, combined with general economic conditions, have put a serious strain on Houston Early Music’s already limited financial resources. Hence, I am making an urgent plea to our supporters to consider making a tax deductible contribution to the organization right away, remembering that your donation is tax deductible. As a mostly volunteer-run non-profit, the bulk of our expenses are artist fees. We need help from local early music enthusiasts to be able continue our history of bringing exceptional early music artists to Houston.

Thank you for your consideration of this special request. Please send checks made out to Houston Early Music to P. O. Box 271193, Houston, Texas 77277 to reflect your support of the organization. On behalf of the Board of Directors I wish you and your family happy holidays and a healthy and prosperous 2009. Thank you again.

Sincerely yours,

Magali Suárez Candler

President, Board of Directors

Texas Commission on the Arts supports Houston Early Music

Webmaster — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:04:00 +0000

We would like to acknowledge the support of the Texas Commission on the Arts for Houston Early Music’s programs.

New email service for Houston Early Music News

Webmaster — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:14:09 +0000

We have a new email list server for our patron newsletter Houston Early Music News. If you were subscribed to the previous Yahoo Group then within the next 24 hours you should receive notice of the change as well as our latest (August 25) newsletter.

If you did, there is nothing you need to do to continue receiving the newsletter. If you did not receive these messages, then you should check your spam filter and register info@HoustonEarlyMusic.org as a valid contact.

The previous Yahoo Group is now inactive. However, you may receive one more reminder of the change, just to ensure that all our subscribers are aware.

If you have not yet signed up for our email newsletter (or wish to modify or cancel your subscription), you may do so at www.houstonearlymusic.org/about/mailing-list

Go Green and Receive Free Tickets

Webmaster — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:20:36 +0000

Help Houston Early Music “Go Green” and
Receive 2 Free Tickets to a Concert

As easy as 1-2-3!

Send your name, postal mailing address, and concert choice to GoGreen@HoustonEarlyMusic.org
We will add you to our email list for concert reminders in place of post cards
Your tickets will be at the Will Call desk at your chosen concert.

Houston Early Music wants to keep you better informed about our programs and also save printing and mailing pre-concert postcard reminders. If you subscribe to our email newsletter in place of postal mail, you save us expenses and reduce environmental waste. To show our gratitude, we will give you one pair of tickets to a future Houston Early Music concert. Send an email including your name, postal mailing address, and concert choice to GoGreen@HoustonEarlyMusic.org We will place you on our Houston Early Music News email list in place of sending postal mail outs. Your free tickets will be waiting for you at the “Will Call” desk at your chosen concert.

You benefit in other ways, too: our email newsletter contains more information than we can put on a postcard and gives you background on the artists, program, and other events. We will continue to mail you annual concert and subscription forms at the beginning of each season.

This offer is good for both new and current email list subscribers, whether or not you are on our postal mailing list .You don’t have to be a season ticket subscriber. It is limited to one pair of tickets per postal address. If you previously accepted our offer to “go green”, let us know and we will be pleased to provide you a pair of free tickets. And if you want receive our email newsletter and still receive the concert postcards, just let us know.

Your email address will be kept private and used only to send you concert notices and related information from Houston Early Music. You may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions in the newsletter, or sending an email to Unsubscribe@HoustonEarlyMusic.org

New Web Site of Houston Early Music

Webmaster — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:38:27 +0000

Welcome to Houston Early Music’s new on-line look. We have changed from a traditional web site format to a newer web log (“blog“) style. We think this new format will allow us to offer more up-to-date, varied, and interesting information about both our concerts and early music throughout the Houston community.

The main features of the site are:

The Front Page welcomes you and features important announcements. You can always return to the Front Page by clicking the Houston Early Music banner at the top of all pages and articles.
The side-bar menu on the Front Page links to other parts of the site and organizes the content in several ways.
Web Site pages contain unchanging information, such as the overview of programs our Current Season.
Articles are frequently-posted items with news, updates, and background information on concerts. Articles appear in reverse order as they are posted (beginning with the most recent and going backwards); click on the All Articles link under “Web Site” in the side-bar menu to view them all.
You may also view articles by Category or Tags in the side-bar to find articles on particular topics.
Longer articles appear abbreviated; click (more…) or Read the rest of this entry for the entire article.
Articles covering the upcoming concert are always available by clicking the category Next Concert.
If you use a news reader such as Bloglinesor Internet Explorer to aggregate your blogs, you can subscribe to HoustonEarlyMusic.org with the RSS feed link at the bottom of all pages.

Like other blogs you may be familiar with, we encourage reader feedback. You may leave comments by clicking the comments link or the Leave a Reply box at the bottom of most articles. (Your name will appear on the comment, but your email address will be kept private.) We encourage your thoughts and suggestions on our programs, as well as other discussion about early music, notice of early music events in the Houston area, and questions that other readers of the site may be able to answer. If you wish to initiate an article on a new topic, please email it to info@HoustonEarlyMusic and we will post it on your behalf.

We also encourage you to sign up for our email mailing listto directly receive concert announcements and significant news about Houston Early Music.

We hope you enjoy our new site and find it even more useful and informative.

Help Houston Early Music “Go Green”

Webmaster — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:33:35 +0000

Help Houston Early Music “Go Green”

You can help conserve our environment and lower costs for Houston Early Music. Mailing postcard reminders to patrons prior to each concert uses up paper and costs us money. Many patrons rely on our website and email newsletter for concert information. If you are on our print (postal) mailing list and would like us to remove your name, please email us at info@houstonearlymusic.org

Volunteer to help Houston Early Music

Webmaster — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:31:30 +0000

If you would like to help bring the joy of early music to Houston, and to get to know the folks behind the scenes, please call or email us. Our Volunteer Coordinator will contact you to find ways you can get involved. It takes more than excellent musicians to make the music: it won’t happen without the invaluable effort of ushers, envelope stuffers, concert assistants, ticket takers, reception hosts … and many more people just like you. If you love the music and have some time to give, please let us know. Just email us at info@HoustonEarlyMusic.org