The sound of one hand clapping for a series of realizations
Danny Johnson
Ya know, it’s hard to put one past me. I’m very observant. I’ve noticed a few things. Like, not too long ago, I noticed they were playing the World Series. Clue A. And then I noticed that all my clocks were wrong. Clue 2. And then, as I was shivering in my apartment at teatime, I noticed I was having some very good pumpkin spice tea to go along with my pumpkin bread and realized with a premonition-like chill that I was going to have some butternut squash dal and curry for supper and that I was going to wash it down with pumpkin stout. I think those count for Clues 3 and D. Maybe E, too.
“Obviously,” I said assuredly, “it’s my favorite time of the year and that means we must have our annual Christmas/Holiday concert coming up soon.”
So check out the blurb below (after you check out the video and graphics that Allison comes up with to illustrate this) and we’ll see you at the grocery store, standing in line to buy Thanksgiving sustenance, and then we’ll see you at An Early Christmas in December!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving and see you at the concerts in December!
-Danny
P.S.: There is no truth to the rumor that I use pumpkin spice contact lens solutions. That is absurd. The stores have been out of that for months. Maybe next year....
An Early Christmas
Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 7:30 pm
&
Sunday, December 11, 2022, 3:00 pm
Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2111 Alexander Avenue
Hosted by Arts on Alexander on the campus of Redeemer Presbyterian Church,
2111 Alexander Ave, Austin, TX 78722.
Visit the Arts on Alexander 2022-2023 events on the AoA website.
Admission $35 general; $30 seniors (60+); $5 students with ID
Tickets available in advance online or by cash, check, or credit card at the door.
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For more information, call 512-377-6961 and leave a message,
or email info@early-music.org.
Join Texas Early Music Project for its annual multilicious feast of diverse holiday music through the ages. Cultures across the centuries have celebrated this season of expectation and rebirth, and we are contributing our share with medieval chant and joyous carols, magnificent motets, lively Celtic songs, exuberant folk-tunes, and more.
Most of the music for this concert comes from Northern Europe and the British Isles. We’ve chosen pieces from Medieval England and France that glimmer with the transparency of the styles of the period. Renaissance Netherlands, England, and France give us both glorious polyphonic and appealing chordal ambiance. A little Baroque music from France and England will leave us with memorable (and recognizable) tunes. Although several of the pieces were written by the long-lived Anonymous, some composers of note are Praetorius, Scheidt, Sweelinck, and the “newly discovered” Vicente Lusitano, a mixed-race Portuguese composer. Active in the 16th century, Lusitano has been described as the first published Black composer.
In addition to the haunting motet for 5 voices by Lusitano, we have created a “medley” on the popular 14th-century tune Resonet in laudibus (also known as Joseph lieber, Joseph mein), using music by different composers of the German and Polish Renaissance for each verse. This unique, brand-new arrangement is for full choir and our small Renaissance orchestra. It is remarkable to hear how composers who worked in geographic and temporal proximity to each other set the different verses and sections.
As usual, there will be a few pieces composed and arranged in the last few years using some of the styles of Medieval and Baroque repertoire, and we will be presenting a short set of traditional and Sephardic music for the Chanukah celebration.
Tim O’Brien, Joel Nesvadba, Cayla Cardiff, Jeffrey Jones-Ragona, Jenny Houghton, Ryland Angel, Adrienne Pedrotti Bingamon, and Jenifer Thyssen are among the featured soloists, and we are happy to have both acclaimed harpist Therese Honey and kantele virtuoso Viktoria Nizhnik featured in our small orchestra.
Join Texas Early Music Project for a splendid and enriching evening of music. Encompassing 700 years of festive creativity and beauty, this music is sure to delight your ears and warm your heart.
And you can use our new word, multilicious!
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