Texas Early Music Project
Daniel Johnson, Artistic Director
presents
Medieval Pilgrimage in Iberia
with special guests Mary Springfels (vielle) and Peter Maund (percussion)
8pm, Saturday, October 10, 2015
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 11201 Parkfield Drive
3pm, Sunday, October 11, 2015
First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive
Admission $30 general; $25 seniors (60+); $5 students (at the door only)
Tickets available by cash, check, or credit card at the door
or online at ... view more »
Texas Early Music Project
Daniel Johnson, Artistic Director
presents
Medieval Pilgrimage in Iberia
with special guests Mary Springfels (vielle) and Peter Maund (percussion)
8pm, Saturday, October 10, 2015
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 11201 Parkfield Drive
3pm, Sunday, October 11, 2015
First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive
Admission $30 general; $25 seniors (60+); $5 students (at the door only)
Tickets available by cash, check, or credit card at the door
or online at http://www.early-music.org/season-tickets/
Take advantage of preferred seating by purchasing Season Tickets
through Oct. 11!
For more information or to reserve tickets, call (512) 377-6961.
A company of eleven female singers explores the music of pilgrimage in Medieval Spain. This music celebrates the richly transparent timbre of treble voices in unison or in polyphonic settings, making the most of sweet consonances and pungent dissonances. Special guests Mary Springfels (vielle) and Peter Maund (percussion) join the ensemble and the TEMP Medieval orchestra of vielles, harps, and gittern. Featured soloists include Jenifer Thyssen, Stephanie Prewitt, Cayla Cardiff, Nina Revering, Erin Calata, and more!
There was never a more popular time for religious pilgrimage than during the Middle Ages. In those times, people made long and dangerous trips, lasting months or years, in a search for spiritual meaning or fulfillment or as an act of penance.
Several of the most important sites of pilgrimage during the Middle Ages were located in what is now northern Spain. TEMP performs music from the monastery at Montserrat in Catalonia, the Cistercian convent in Burgos, Las cantigas de Santa Maria from the royal court of Alfonso X, and the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia.
Whether you are focusing on the music with closed eyes or silently clapping your hands and tapping your feet, the long-lasting beauty of our Medieval Pilgrimage will delight you.
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