Sacred Music Events in the Greater Houston Area
Discover Sacred Music Events in the Greater Houston Area
Harmonia Stellarum Houston offers an afternoon concert of Italian keyboard music and Gregorian Chant featuring Texas' first Italian Renaissance organ in the intimate, resonant sanctuary of First Lutheran Church, 1311 Holman Street.
Harmonia Stellarum Houston conducted by Mario Aschauer with Bryan Anderson, organ, present a concert that celebrates Anton Bruckner's 200th birthday and the old masters whose music inspired him. The program includes Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli along with selected choral motets by Bruckner. Tickets $40; students $20 at website www.harmoniastellarum.com
Harmonia Stellarum Houston, Mario Aschauer, artistic director, presents Heinrich Schütz: Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi with intermedia by A. Hammerschmidt, S, Otto, and J.G. Caro; and Giovanni Battista Pederzuoli (?-1692): Trialogo nel Natale del Siognore. Using operatic forms to set sacred texts, these two early-Baroque composers in Protestant Dresden and Catholic Vienna could circumvent rules […]
Harmonia Stellarum Houston, Mario Aschauerm artistic director, presents Mozart's Missa Solemnis in C, K. 66 ("Dominicus"). The spectacular choral masterwork composed by the 13-year-old prodigy combines youthful freshness with the depth of a mature master. With period instruments. Tickets are available through www.harmoniastellarum.com
Grant Smith, masters degree student at Rice, will play early Italian and German Baroque music on First Lutheran's Pasi Opus 23 organ before leaving on an international tour of competitions. This event is the beginning of the Music At First Concert Series for 2023-2024, and there is no admission charge.
The organ students of University of St. Thomas will perform various works by J. S. Bach on Pasi Op. 23 organ.