“It’s About Time: Companions”.

The centerpiece of its 2017-18 season, Texas Early Music Project’s staged concert (with historical dances choreographed by Toni Bravo) features a celebration of Western music from its earliest days through the instruments, voices, campfires, cathedrals, palaces, and concert halls over the past 10 centuries.

23 singers and 12 instrumentalists perform music by 20 different composers, with Anonymous being well-represented through the centuries. Sometimes seemingly disparate composers are juxtaposed, as are musical genres: 19^th-century Bizet with 16^th-century Sephardic, 18^th-century J.S. Bach with 1940s Americana, and much more.