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2012—2013 Season
Psalmi ad Vesperas (1694) CD Release Reception
Friday, September 14 at 5:30 pm
Soul Music of Tchaikovsky, Tavener and Górecki
Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 7:30 pm
Bach and All That Jazz
Friday, November 2 at 7:30 pm (The Woodlands)
Saturday, November 3 at 7:30 pm (Houston)
For Unto Us
Saturday, December 8 at 7:30 pm
Christmas at the Villa
Saturday and Sunday, December 15 and 16 at 3:30 and 7:30 pm
Masterclass with Ragnar Bohlin
Saturday, January 26 at 9:00 am
Hear the Future 2013
Sunday, January 27 at 4:00 pm
What Sweeter Music
Saturday, March 2 at 7:30 pm
A Bohemian Rhapsody - 2013 HCC Gala
Sunday, April 14 at 5:30 pm
2011—2012 Season
September 2011
Ave Maria: Music of Devotion to Our Lady
OCTOBER 2011
Psalmi ad Vesperas (1694)
Giovanni Paolo Colonna
DECEMBER 2011
Messiah for Kids!
Magnificat and Messiah
Music of Schubert and Handel
With the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra
Christmas at the Villa
JANUARY 2012
Joshua Habermann Masterclass
Hear the Future
13th Annual Invitational School Choral Festival
FEBRUARY 2012
Vienna 1828: Schubert's Invitation Concert
Presented by DaCamera of Houston
MARCH 2012
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
APRIL 2012
Northeast Tour
Houston Chamber Choir Gala
MAY 2012
Music in the Key of Joy
The Music of Leonard Bernstein
with special guest Jamie Bernstein
2010—2011 Season
November 2010
Heinrich Schütz — The Master of Baroque Dresden
Heinrich Schütz is widely regarded as the greatest German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of the 17th century. Schütz’s works follow in the grand Italian polychoral tradition of his teacher, Giovanni Gabrieli. We are delighted to have Manfred Cordes, a foremost Schütz scholar from Bremen, Germany, lead the Chamber Choir, period strings and brass in a breathtaking concert of the composer’s most spectacular works.
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Saturday, November 20, 2010, 7:30 pm
First Evangelical Lutheran Church |
 Audio Track:
Freue Dich Des Weibes |
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Sunday, November 21, 2010, 4:00 pm
Round Top Festival Concert Hall |
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December 2010
Christmas at the Villa
All THREE PERFORMANCES SOLD OUT
Please call (713) 224-5566 to purchase tickets as they become available
Mark your calendars! With the classic beauty and superb acoustics of the Villa de Matel Chapel as backdrop, our Chamber Choir Christmas concerts are a standing-room-only Houston tradition. Special guests this year will include the masterful Quartus Chamber Players string quartet; and the hugely popular Treble Choir of Houston, under the direction of Marianna Parnas-Simpson.
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Saturday, December 11, 2010, 7:30 pm
SOLD OUT
Sunday, December 12, 2010, 3:30 pm
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Sunday, December 12, 2010, 7:30 pm
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Chapel of the Villa de Matel |
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January 2011
Hear the Future
Join us as the Houston Chamber Choir welcomes three extraordinary choirs to our annual invitational choral festival. This year’s guests are The Rice School Elementary Honors Choir, Holly Holt Cabrera, director; the Spring Oaks Middle School Choir, Gregory Morgan and Julia Mays, directors; and the Bellaire High School Choir, Amy Solberg, director. Hear a new composition from Dominick DiOrio and find out for yourself why the future has never sounded brighter.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011, 4:00 pm
South Main Baptist Church
No Admission Required |
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February 2011
Music for Rothko
Houston’s Rothko Chapel, a local landmark of international proportions, is set to mark its 40th anniversary. We’ll give that occasion extra doses of brio, as Houston Chamber Choir and Da Camera of Houston collaborate once again. Our program will feature compositions of John Cage, Eric Satie, and Franz Schubert. To top it off, celebrated violist Kim Kashkashian will be the guest artist in Morton Feldman’s “Rothko Chapel.” Presented in collaboration with Da Camera of Houston.
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Friday, February 25, 2011, 8:00 pm
SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 8:00 pm
SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 27, 2011, 2:30 pm
SOLD OUT
The Rothko Chapel |
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March 2011
The American Musical — Live from New York
Do you love show tunes? So do we. For one extraordinary evening, the talents of the Houston Chamber Choir will take off in a new direction under the expert guidance of Judy Blazer, a Broadway Drama Desk nominee. Ms. Blazer has had leading roles with the New York City Opera and on Broadway and has performed in “Candide,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Titanic,” and the PBS special, “Bernstein’s New York.” She and Michael Tilson Thomas collaborate regularly in “The Thomashefskys,” a Yiddish theater revue.
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*Special Event – not part of the Season Subscription
Saturday, March 12, 2011, 7:30 pm
SOLD OUT
Neuhaus Stage, Alley Theatre |
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May 2011
Venetian Vespers
Seventeenth-century Italy was the epicenter of radical new directions in music. Audiences embraced the avant-garde works with experimental methods: florid melodies that included elaborate accompaniments in major and minor keys, dramatic liturgical celebrations, and large-scale works for choir and instruments designed to inspire and enthrall. Pushed aside were the Renaissance strands of equal voices weaving counterpoint in church modes. Houston Chamber Choir present this boundary-breaking program as the final performance of its 15th Anniversary Season. The Chamber Choir will perform a rich sampling of music from this era with an orchestral ensemble drawn from Houston's growing corps of early music instrumentalists.
The program for Venetian Vespers includes works by Francesco Cavalli, Maestro di cappella at St. Mark's, Venice, set against expressive Psalm settings by Alessandro Grandi, Giovanni Bassani and Giovanni Rigatti, other important composers of the time.
Of particular note is a rare complete performance of Messa a Nove Voci Concertata con Stomenti (Mass for Nine Concerted Voices with Instruments) by Giovanni Paolo Colonna edited by Dr. Anne Schnoebelen, Mullen Professor Emerita of Musicology at The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Dr. Schnoebelen, the artistic advisor for this concert, has spent her career studying Italian sacred music of the 17th century and she is recognized as the world's foremost authority on the music of Colonna.
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Saturday, May 14, 2011, 7:30 pm
The Church of St. John the Divine |
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Please join us for a FREE special preview event!
Venetian Vespers Preview
An inside perspective by Houston Chamber Choir's Robert Simpson and Rice University's Dr. Anne Schnoebelen
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Italian Cultural & Community Center
1101 Milford
Houston, TX 77006
713 528 0111
www.iccchouston.com
There will be a reception with light refreshments after the preview. |
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