Texan-French Alliance for the Arts and Da Camera of Houston Present
Three-City American Tour By Acclaimed French Vocal Ensemble
Machaut Mass: Marcel Pérès Ensemble Organum
Thursday, December 2, 2010; 7:30 PM
Chapel of the Villa de Matel
6510 Lawndale Avenue, Houston
Friday, December 3, 2010; 7:30 PM
Rothko Chapel
3900 Yupon, Houston
For tickets, go to www.dacamera.com or call 713-524-5050.
Sunday, December 5, 2010; 7:00 PM
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood, Dallas
For tickets, go to http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Events/Adults/Performances/index.htm#Machaut or call 214-922-1818.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010; 7 :00 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 W. 37th Street, New York
For ticket information, go to http://www.bacnyc.org/index.php/events/performances/ensemble_organum or call 212-868-4444.
About The Program
Guillaume de Machaut Messe de Notre Dame
Ensemble Organum (Marcel Pérès, director, Jean-Christophe Candau, Giovannangelo De Gennaro, Jean-Etienne Langianni, Antoine Sicot, Luc Terrieux)
In a rare U.S. appearance, world-renowned Marcel Pérès and his Ensemble Organum make their Houston debut singing Guillaume de Machaut’s 14th-century Messe de Notre Dame, the first mass to be attributed to a single composer and one of the greatest religious compositions of all time.
Machaut's stunning originality continues to astound music lovers of all genres, and this dynamic French vocal ensemble "make you literally hear it for the first time... Boisterous scoops and Bob Dylan-like slides..bring Machaut's quirky imagination into firmer focus...Pérès is to Machaut as Schnabel was to Beethoven," says Amazon.com.
Led by medieval music scholar and singer Marcel Pérès, Ensemble Organum's landmark recording is included in The New York Times Essential Library:
Classical Music: A Critic’s Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings. "this is a must-hear concert."-- The New York Times.
The Houston performances are underwritten by a generous gift from Robert J.Card, M.D. and Karol Kreymer. They are made possible in part by the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the Consulate General of France in Houston, the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts and American Eurocopter in Dallas.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy, on view at the Dallas Museum of Art from Oct 3, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011.
