Tickets & Subscriptions “Experientia Spectra”

From Baroque opera arias to ancient lusty chants. Toe tapping dances to astounding Experience the spectrum of Texas Project EXAS ARLY Tickets are available at the door, purchasable with T E cash, check, or credit card: $25 regular, $20 senior, MUSIC PROJECT $5 student with ID. You can also visit www.early- www.early-music.org ● 512-377-6961 music.org for single regular, senior and student

tickets, specially discounted Season Subscriptions, Experience the spectrum of or for donations. Discounted Season Subscriptions Texas Early Music Project can also be purchased using the order form on this brochure, payable by cash or check. This season we invite you to explore the long and richly varied history of early music–more than 600 Special Services for Subscribers years of musical transformation. Over the course of Subscriber Concierge: Avoid the box office lines six programs, you'll be treated to a spectrum of and go directly to the Preferred Seating area, where harmonic palettes and a sparkling array of styles you will check in with our concierge. 2013TEMP 2014 from masterful composers of the past. Each subscriber can bring The September and January opera concerts are Bring A Friend: a friend FOR FREE to one concert this Season. delightfully different, with the first showcasing the However, you must contact us at least development of the genre and the second in full 10 days in advance of the concert to reserve a seat comic mode, with situations and characters similar for your friend. Call and leave a to modern sitcoms. The spectrum of music from 512-377-6961 message or send an email to the Spanish is represented by sublimely boxoffice@early- . somber sacred and the contrasting light music.org

and humorous ensaladas, equally skilled, charming, About the Founder and Artistic capa

and beautiful. On the other end of the polyphonic Director, Daniel Johnson

p scale is the brilliantly arching music from the Eton ella In the spring of 2009, TEMP

Choirbook and from the "Earthquake Mass" by Founder and Artistic Director, wonder. This is early music in a whole new light. Join us. Lowlands composer Antoine Brumel. Both Daniel Johnson, added Austin Arts repertoires employ parts for 5-12 voices and the Hall of Fame inductee to his list of result is both transcendentally hypnotic and accolades and awards. Since its spectacularly moving. Our popular Christmas

formation by Johnson, Texas Early Music Project program is a movable feast: a smorgasbord of styles,

has charmed Austin audiences with intriguing and languages, and traditions that embody our joy in the innovative concerts. Johnson specializes in the emotional warmth of the season and hopes for the music of Medieval and Renaissance Spain and New Year. The final concert, from the immensely France, the Sephardim, the early Baroque works

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of Monteverdi and Charpentier, and ballads from the simple but visceral styles that were the

17th- & 18th- century Scotland. He directs the ROJECT cornerstone in the evolution of Western music.

Texas Toot Workshop and is a co-director of the P The exotic sounds of and a medieval band TX 78705 Amherst Early Music Festival. E mixed with clear and vibrant vocal timbres exude joyfulness. This project is funded and supported in part Gabriel San 5

by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts 290 Austin,

Join us! EXAS Division believing an investment in the Arts is USIC an investment in Austin’s future. Preserving the Past. T

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Aires and Arias from Renaissance Friday, December 13, 2013 at 8PM All subscribers have access to preferred seating. All subscribers must OPERA: choose their preferred dates of attendance when purchasing tickets. First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive th th the 16 to the 18 Centuries Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 8PM Saturday December 14, 2013 at 8PM Regular Full: _____ X $132 = $ _____ St. Louis King of France Catholic Church, 7601 Burnet Rd. First English Lutheran Church, 3001 Whitis Avenue Students / Seniors Full: _____ X $100 = $ _____ Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 8PM Regular Partial (4 crts): _____ X $87 = $ _____ First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 3PM Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 3PM First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive First English Lutheran Church, 3001 Whitis Avenue Students / Seniors Partial (4 crts): _____ X $65 = $ _____

Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 3PM First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive The Spanish Renaissance produced some of the most Join us for Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and folk Subscription Total: $ _____ poignantly beautiful music imaginable, but also much music from Europe and the Americas as we perform Experience the beauty, brilliance, and passion that the that is infectiously joyful, especially the effervescent joyous carols, rollicking dances, and exquisite noëls for Circle the appropriate dates to indicate your reservation. best composers from Italy, France, and England ensaladas of Mateo Flecha. Voices, , and Christmas and the New Year. You’ll be treated to a TEMP GOES TO Saturday, September 21, 8 PM instilled in opera, from its intimate beginnings in the will reverberate throughout the concert. smorgasbord of musical styles and languages, some THE OPERA Sunday, September 22, 3 PM late 16th century through the High Baroque virtuosity Mary Springfels, viola da gamba, is our special revealing the origins of our modern traditions, while of Handel. Opening night only: a special appearance by others remaining unique to their time and place. guest. ¡Bailamos! ALEGRÍA Saturday, October 19, 8 PM countertenor Ryland Angel. Not to be missed! Sunday, October 20, 3 PM

JOYOUS Friday, December 13, 8 PM NOËL Saturday, December 14, 8 PM Sunday, December 15, 3 PM

TELEMANIA Saturday, January 25, 8 PM Sunday, January 26, 3 PM

THE CRY OF Saturday, March 29, 8 PM COLOR US RED AS ROSES… MYSTERIOUS INDIGO… VERT MERVEILLEUX… MANY VOICES Sunday, March 30, 3 PM

THE ORIGINAL Saturday, April 26, 8 PM UNPREDICTABLE OCHRE… SMOOTH BLUE… FIERY ORANGE… CARMINA BURANA Sunday, April 27, 3 PM

Subscription & Donation Form

Purchase season subscriptions with a credit card at www.early-music.org OR mail this panel with your information to:

Texas Early Music Project 2905 San Gabriel, Suite 204 Austin, Texas 78705 512-377-6961

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VOICES: An Illuminated Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 8PM CARMINA BURANA: Name: ______First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive Renaissance Unplugged & Organic

Address: ______Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 3PM Saturday, March 29, 2014 at 8PM Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 8PM First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive St. Mary Cathedral, 203 East 10th Street First English Lutheran Church, 3001 Whitis Avenue City/State/Zip: ______

The Austin premiere of Georg Philipp Telemann’s Sunday, March 30, 2014 at 3PM Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 3PM Phone: ______comic chamber opera Pimpinone, embellished with some First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive of his most ravishing and progressive chamber music. Email: ______In these compositions for 5–12 a cappella parts, Unabashedly joyful and passionate songs about love, TEMP regular Meredith Ruduski sings the role of Make a Donation (Donations are tax deductible.) shimmering and transparent textures alternate with spring, mythology, love, dancing, drinking, love, flirting, Vespetta and New York's Peter Walker portrays the lusciously dense ones in music from the unique FAN: Up to $199 BENEFACTOR: $1,000-$4,999 philosophy, and…love!...from the 13th-century Carmina FRIEND: $200-$499 PATRON: $5,000 and above put-upon title character in this staged performance, set compositions of England’s Eton Choirbook and from in current times. Someone has a lot of 'splaining to do! Burana manuscript. Special guests Mary Springfels and SUPPORTER: $500-$999 Franco-Flemish composers on the cutting edge. The Tom Zajac will join us for one of our favorite Donation Total: reverberant voices of more than 20 singers will repertoires! Rated PG-13. $ ______

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