Concert

https://youtu.be/AbiEX2pt4vE Join us on Sunday the 29th of March for our Spring concert, “Women Composers Through History“. While there were probably a lot of women composing music during the Renaissance and Baroque periods most of their music has not survived. Luckily for us several women composers did manage to have their music preserved; some by […]

Join us on Sunday the 16th of November for our Fall concert, "Anonymous - the Most Prolific Composer in History". Throughout history there have been many reasons that a piece of music is credited to Anonymous: Members of the Royal Family and the Nobility that did not want to be known; Composers that wrote in […]

https://youtu.be/3zdqWfYd-P4 Composers throughout the Renaissance and Baroque periods traveled extensively to learn about musical styles, to work in foreign courts, and to study with others. Many left their mark; many also brought back knowledge that served to reshape the direction of music all over Europe. German composers worked in England; English composers worked in Denmark; […]

https://youtu.be/hhs8zX7tt2U From the influences of Martin Luther to the harmonic language standardized by Bach, Germany was central to the development of Western music and instruments. Lauda Musicam of Austin's capped reeds, vocalists, strings, and recorders, among other less familiar instruments, take the spotlight in this concert of music by Schütz, Schein, Scheidt, and more.

New World -- Old World https://youtu.be/6Jp9zmfQljI

Give eare to the clocke Time makes golden locks turn gray, morning turn to night, and winter turn to spring. Lauda Musicam of Austin looks to past composers to see how they pondered time.Click here for text and translations of the musical selections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-M2MkmjVzc