Houston Early Music

Trinity Church

1015 Holman (at Main)
just south of downtown on the rail line
HCC/Ensamble Rail Stop
MAP

Since 1893 Trinity has provided a spiritual home for countless seekers in the heart ofHouston. Over the years, as our neighborhood and city have changed, we’ve evolved too, and responded to the needs of a challenging urban context. Today we are an interesting assortment of creative folk, who represent the eclectic nature and boundless energy of our vibrant cosmopolitan home. We are an open, inclusive community and welcome others to join us on the spiritual path. We value such things as beauty and diversity, which you’ll find reflected in our art, architecture, and music, and also in our commitment to outreach and service to those in need. We strive to be faithful to our call to reconcile all people to God and to each other. Our hope is that Trinity Church h\can be a refreshing oasis of calm, peace, and understanding amidst the chaos of city life.

Our historic neo-gothic church building was designed by renowned architect Ralph Adams Cram, assisted by William Ward Watkin, and was completed in 1919. The lovely Morrow Chapel was renovated in 2002 and features world-class stained glass, artwork, and liturgical furnishings by such artists as Kim Clark Renteria, Kermit Oliver, Troy Woods, Shazia Sikander, and Selven O’Keef Jarmon. Our Sunday worship services combine the serenity of these sacred spaces with the joyful

Download PDF file of Post Card for Fortune’s Wheel

Read Mirie It Is email announcement

4:00 PM, Sun., Jan.13, 2008
Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman (at Main) [map]
Pre-concert lecture, 3:00 PM
Tickets: 713-432-1744

MIRIE IT IS – A Musical Glimpse of Medieval England

Houston Early Music will present the Boston-based Fortune’s Wheel with Mirie it Is–A Glimpse of Medieval England at 4:00 pm, Sunday, January 13, 2008 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman (at Main). Noted for performing “with a wonderful air of spontaneity and freedom” (The San Diego Reader), Fortune’s Wheel will present a concert of most of the surviving vernacular treasures from the once vast, now largely lost repertoire of the English Middle Ages.

Fortune’s Wheel is a spirited collaboration of four distinguished early-music performers—vocalists Lydia Heather Knutson and Aaron Sheehan, and instrumentalists Shira Kammen & Robert Mealy performing on vielle (medieval fiddle) and harp. Devoted to rediscovering the riches of medieval musical traditions, the ensemble made its debut at the 1996 International Festival of Early Music in Mexico City, where critics acclaimed the group’s “style, diction, tuning, perfect balance, and total engagement with the music.” Since then, the ensemble has been presented by early music concert series in San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Tijuana, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Houston, Jackson, Tucson, Columbus, Cambridge, and Duke University. They have also appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Berkeley Early Music Festival, the Amherst Early Music Festival, The Cloisters and the Frick Collection in New York City, Yale University’s Collection of Musical Instruments, and many other series.

Fortune’s Wheel released its first CD, Pastourelle, on Dorian Recordings. Website www.fortuneswheel.org

Prior to the concert, at 3:00 pm, ensemble member Robert Mealy will give a preconcert talk discussing the music to be performed on the program.

Tickets are $30 for general admission, $25 for seniors, $10 for students, under 15 free. Tickets may be purchased at the door or by calling 713-432-1744.

FORTUNE’S WHEEL

MIRIE IT IS – A Glimpse of Medieval England

From the rough vigor of folk music to the refined sophistication of rarely-heard polyphony, Fortune’s Wheel presents most of the surviving vernacular treasurers from the once vast, now largely lost repertoire of the English Middle Ages.

http://www.fortuneswheel.org/

“Fortune’s Wheel takes its medieval music seriously and then transforms the music at hand and voice into living, breathing art”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

TAPESTRY with Medieval Strings

Three Weddings and a Funeral

• Directions and Map

NOTE *** NOTE *** NOTE

The original site for this concert has changed. The new site is Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman (at Main).  The time and date (Sunday, February 11 at 4:00 pm) remain the same.  See letter to subscribers

(more…)

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).

(more…)