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2010—2011 Season (click to view concert details)
September 2010 — May 2011
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 To celebrate our 15th Anniversary we’ve planned concerts packed with audience favorites from the past and intriguing fresh explorations in some unexpected new directions. “A Bridge Across Time,” our 2010-2011 season, highlights Renaissance treasures, the Baroque splendors of Germany and Italy, and a world premiere for choir and marimba by Yale-educated composer Dominick DiOrio, currently a member of the Choir. Of course, Christmas at the Villa is a much anticipated occasion for the singers as well as audience members, and you’ll see a completely enchanting side of the Choir as we take on Broadway with Drama Desk nominee Judy Blazer at the Alley. Even in this crazy-paced world it makes “cents” to plan ahead. Save on your Chamber Choir experience this year and get the best seats in the house by subscribing now. I look forward to welcoming you to this year-long adventure.
Robert Simpson
Founder and Artistic Director
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Includes these concerts:
A Renaissance Feast • Tuesday, September 21, 2010 • 7:30 pm
Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart • 1111 St. Joseph Parkway • Houston, TX 77002
Heinrich Schütz — The Master of Baroque Dresden • Saturday, November 20, 2010 • 7:30 pm
First Evangelical Lutheran Church,1311 Holman Street, Houston, TX 77004
Hallelujah! — Handel and Vivaldi at Christmas • Friday, December 4, 2010 • 7:30 pm
The Church of St. John the Divine, 2450 River Oaks Boulevard, Houston, TX 77019
Christmas at the Villa • Saturday, December 11, 2010 • 7:30 pm, and
Sunday, December 12, 2010 • 3:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Chapel of the Villa de Matel, 6510 Lawndale Avenue, Houston, TX 77023
Hear the Future: 12th Annual Invitational School Choral Festival • Sunday, January 30, 2011 • 4:00 pm
South Main Baptist Church • 4100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002
(Free concert, no ticket required.)
Music for Rothko • Friday, February 25, 2011 • 8:00 pm, and
Saturday, February 26, 2011 • 8:00 pm
The Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX 77006
Presented in collaboration with DaCamera of Houston
Venetian Vespers • Saturday, May 14, 2011 • 7:30 pm
The Church of St. John the Divine, 2450 River Oaks Boulevard, Houston, TX 77019
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Special 6-Concert Subscription Price: $150.00
Senior 65+ Subscription: $130.00
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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
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Sunday, November 21, 2010, 4:00 pm
Round Top Festival Concert Hall
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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
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 8:00 pm
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
Neuhaus Stage, Alley Theatre
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