French Toast: A tip of the Glass to Chanson
with Jamie Barton, mezzo Soprano

We close Season Nine with a festive night of chansons and champagne! World-renowned mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton and pianist Keith Weber join CANTARE in a celebration of song, including Debussy's Trois Chansons, Ravel's Trois Chansons, Badings' Trois Chansons Bretonnes. Solos melodies by Debussy, Fauré, Duparc and Chausson. Come "tip your glass" with us at a reception following the concert.

Debussy: Trois Chansons
Ravel: Trois Chansons
Badings: Trois Chansons Bretonnes

Saturday, May 5, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

First Congregational Church
10840 Beinhorn Road
Houston, Texas 77024
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Earlier in the Season...

Hear the Art! Walking Concert at the MFAH

CANTARE Houston returns to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston for our ever-popular "walking concerts." Take a musical stroll through centuries of world class art at this exclusive concert event. The featured exhibit of this tour is "Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting," currently on loan from the National Galleries of Scotland.

Join artistic director Kevin Riehle and the singers of CANTARE as we perform a cappella treasures from the Golden Age - music of Monteverdi, the Gabrielis, Willaert and other composers of the fertile Venetian period. The concert will also tour several other Museum galleries, with historical narration and artistic commentary provided by curator Helga Aurisch.

Admission is limited to 100 people each night. Tickets are $50 each. Come hear the art of the MFAH, like you've never heard it before!

Please join us for a champagne reception and unique door prize giveaways following the concert.

Saturday, August 6, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 7, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Houston, Texas 77005
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All-American A Cappella (Almost)

Ticket for this concert are no longer available online. However, tickets can be purchased at the concert.
 
CANTARE pays tribute to some of choral music's greatest American composers in an evening of mostly a cappella music. Natalie Arduino, mezzo-soprano from Dallas, joins the ensemble as soloist for Copland's choral masterpiece. Featured works include:

Spencer: At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners
Thompson: The Peaceable Kingdom
Bernstein: Choruses from The Lark
Copland: In the Beginning
Whitacre: Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine
Paulus: Pilgrim's Hymn, The Road Home

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Christ the King Lutheran Church
2353 Rice Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77005
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A Ceremony of Carols: CANTARE at the MFAH

These Christmas performances at the Museum have become a treasured holiday tradition and are not to be missed! The concert features time-honored carol suites and fantasies by Britten and Vaughan Williams and new settings by Conrad Susa, as well as CANTARE's signature eclectic mix of seasonal songs.

Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Susa: Carols and Lullabies of the Southwest

Saturday, December 10, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011

All concerts are at 7:30 p.m.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Houston, Texas 77005
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Remembrance

Lent is a time for remembrance. Savor an evening of sacred reflection featuring Howells' Requiem, Poulenc's Motets for the Season of Lent and Pizzetti's Requiem

Howells: Requiem
Poulenc: Motets for the Season of Lent
Pizzetti: Requiem

Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
1111 St. Joseph Parkway
Houston, Texas 77002
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Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
5501 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77004
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