“Convivencia Re-Envisioned:The Three Worlds of Renaissance Spain”

Texas Early Music Project

Daniel Johnson, Artistic Director

presents

“Convivencia Re-Envisioned: The Three Worlds of Renaissance Spain”

with special guests Nina Stern, recorders (New York), Peter Maund, percussion (Oakland), and Kamran Hooshmand, santur & oud (Austin).

Convivencia Re-Envisioned illuminates the lives and emotions of the inhabitants of Spain in the early Renaissance musically, poetically, and visually. The concert features TEMP soloists Gitanjali Mathur, Cayla Cardiff, Stephanie Prewitt, Jenny Houghton, Erin Calata, Daniel Johnson, David Lopez, Steve Olivares, and 11 more singers. Joining the guest instrumentalists are perennial local favorites Elaine Barber, Scott Horton, John Walters, Bruce Colson, Kit Robberson, and others.

Saturday, September 5, 8pm at

St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, 606 W. 15th Street

Sunday, September 6, 3pm at

Temple Beth Shalom, 7300 Hart Lane

Tickets: $30 general, $25 senior, $5 student with ID available at the door.

Tickets available by cash, check, or credit card at the door

or online at http://www.early-music.org

Call 512-377-6961 for more information.

Convivencia means coexistence, and in our season opener we explore many of the cross-cultural ties and themes that connected the three great cultures of early Spain: Muslim, Jewish, and Christian. The concert includes two historically accurate 3D videos in an immersive depiction of the medieval Spanish city of Plasencia, directed by Dr. Roger L. Martínez-Dávila, an academic historian at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

The swirling and sensuous rhythms and exotic scales of Arabo-Andalusian and Sephardic music alternate with courtly, sometimes boisterously exuberant works from the Spanish courts. Glimpses of daily life and cultural interactions are lovingly presented through songs and dances from the 15th and 16th centuries, performed on authentic reproductions of historical instruments.