As we move toward the twenty-first century, we feel it is important to gather and treasure the best of a rich cultural legacy from the past. We invite you to begin your millennial journey with an evening with Vienna’s fabulous four—Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert—in a concert celebrating the legacy of one of Houston’s great patrons of the arts, Eleanor McCollum. Your journey continues with the luminous harmonies of Josquin in an evening that promises to be esthetically and spiritually moving. We celebrate Christmas in English Renaissance style and then tour the Alhambra in word and song. Next, we pause to celebrate the 250th Bach anniversary year in a series of concerts titled "Bach at the Millennium—Seasons of a Man’s Life"
Join some of the world’s most inspired musicians who recreate music by the masters in a journey of discovery.
| The Mozartean
Players
with Friday, September 17, 1999, 8:00 p.m. |
You will be dazzled by an evening of
Viennese splendor when we celebrate the glorious legacy
of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven with the Mozartean
Players, an ensemble whose "zestful flair really
strikes sparks." Cutting-edge classics! Houston Early Music will honor the extraordinary spirit and glorious legacy of Eleanor Searle McCollum at our opening concert by the Mozartean Players. Through the music of great masters, we pay tribute to her philanthropic endeavors and years of devoted patronage to the arts in Houston. |
| The Clerks Group Celestial Voices Tuesday, November 9, 1999,
8:00 p.m. Early Conversations Lecture — 7:00 p.m. |
Enter the profound and contemplative world of Josquin. Transcendent sounds of sorrow and celebration echo across the vaults of St. Anne's in music that is intensely involving and deeply moving. |
| The York Waits Old Christmas Return'd Friday, December 10,
1999, 8:00 p.m. |
Our yearly holiday
ornament—experience the festive sounds, colors, and
costumes of Renaissance England as Henry VIII's wind band
regally entertains you for the Christmas season. Then,
join us for a celebration in the Great Hall to feast on
gingerbread and wassail. |
| Bach at the Millennium Series Songs of
the Soul—Bach, The Private Man Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 8:00 p.m. Early Conversations Lecture—7:00
p.m. |
The rich strains of the Cello Suites will draw you into a personal encounter with Bach’s soul—one that reveals the most private and passionate expressions of the entire range of human emotion and experience. |
| HISPANIC HERITAGE SERIES Altramar Tuesday, February 15, 2000 Early Conversations Lecture—7:00 p.m. |
Voices of the past come to life. Through song and poetry, you will be transported to the world of Medieval Spain and to a unique age that was a pinnacle of Islamic science and art, a golden age of Hebrew poetry, and a flowering of Christian theology and music. |
| Bach at the Millennium Series London
Baroque with Patti Spain, Soprano Friday, April 14, 2000 Early Conversations Lecture —7:00 p.m.,
Rotunda Theater |
Spend the evening with the Bach family at home. You will be charmed and touched by the expressions of love and devotion found in the musical scrapbook compiled by Bach’s second wife and by music he composed for his children. |