Happy Halloween! Ok, belatedly.

Happy Belated Halloween.

So, yes, it was indeed our plan to release our next concert video before Halloween—I just knew that our webscribe Allison would have some fun images to accompany the blog that would precede the release of the video. Alas, that was not to be, because I had to watch all my old Halloween film faves to get in the spirit of the season: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Gene Wilder, and Rocky horror Picture Show and more. A lot more. In fact, I’m still watching.

But the new concert video is being released next Saturday — thank goodness it’s not on Friday the 13th! — and there’s a lot of really beautiful music: wonderful singing and terrific playing, and very few of us are wearing scary masks. So if you’re ready for Halloween to be over, you don’t have (much) to fear. Not much.

It’s going to be beautiful, and it’s Monteverdi and Cavalli. 3 out of 3 is pretty good!

See below for more info on our upcoming The Student Becomes the Master Video Premiere, including our trailer!

-Danny

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THE STUDENT BECOMES THE MASTER:
MONTEVERDI & CAVALLI IN VENICE
A Video premiere

Premiere for the general public:
Saturday, November 14, 2020, 7:30 pm

The video will be viewable from Nov. 14 through Thursday, Nov. 19 at 11:00 pm. Tickets must be purchased by 9:30 pm on Thursday, Sept. 19.

Admission: $5 Student/Supporter; $15 Fan; $25 Friend; $50 Patron

The general admission price is the Fan category, $15. If you're struggling financially due to the Coronavirus situation, take advantage of our lower-priced Student/Supporter offer. If you’re able to pay a little more, and can help someone else pay less, please do so with the Friend and Patron prices. 

Tickets available in advance online. After the purchase of a ticket an email with video access instructions will be sent to you on Nov. 12.

Subscribers to the 2019-2020 Season and those who purchased individual tickets to the March concert will receive an email about your tickets; you will not need to purchase tickets to view the concert video.

For more information, call 512-377-6961 and leave a message,
or email boxoffice@early-music.org.

We are happy to announce that TEMP returns again from its pause after the onset of Covid-19 to present a pre-recorded video of the music that was to have been presented in our May concert, with music by Claudio Monteverdi and his protégée, Francesco Cavalli.

Claudio Monteverdi was already a musical master in the 16th century, but he and student Francesco Cavalli also created musical wonders in the 17th century with ravishing works for the cathedral, the court, and the opera. For our final concert of the 2019-2020 season, we will focus on splendid pieces for soloists, duets, and small ensembles from their operas and songs from the 1640s and 1650s. Filled with beauty, desire, loss, and healthy injections of humor, these songs are microcosms of the opera ‘scene’ in Venice in the middle of the 17th century. Featured soloists include Jenifer Thyssen, Gitanjali Mathur, Laura Mercado-Wright, Ryland Angel, Tim O’Brien, Meredith Ruduski, Shari Alise Wilson, and Cayla Cardiff.

Early Music Now Host and Producer, Sara Schneider will also present a personally crafted lecture during the video, interspersed between sets of music. The video will also present art from the 16th and 17th centuries and evocative photography.

Sixteen of TEMP’s singers and players recorded this music live in Austin in September and remotely from England. Our production team has worked since then to create a seamless video of music, speech, and art ever since, a path that would have seemed impossible just a few months ago, but is now the wave of the (temporary) present.

Please join us as we reconnect with you through the magic of music.

Click on the image above to buy tickets now!

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