Calendar of Events

Renaissance music for the 60th Anniversary of The McNay’s Oppenheimer Collection. Program includes music of Lassus, Byrd, and Palestrina and features selections with historic and thematic ties to various works in the collection.

Copperleaf is a group of five exceptional vocalists that seamlessly blends female and male voices to bring exquisite harmonies and the highest level of musical excellence to each performance. Musical selections for each concert are chosen to complement the architecture and time period of the specific performance setting.

By the eighteenth century, the term cantata generally referred to one or two specific musical genres, but before the word cantata had these distinct meanings, it simply referred to any piece meant to be sung, usually with instrumental accompaniment. In the spirit of that earlier and broader definition that we present a selection of Baroque works for choir and orchestra, including J.S. Bach’s cantata *Jesu, der du meine Seele*, Charpentier’s sumptuous and martial *Te Deum*, Jerúsalem’s ode *Al combate* (receiving its Texas and period-instrument premiere), and *Ad pedes* from Buxtehude’s moving *Membra Jesu nostri*. Though they’re not all cantatas in the strictest sense, we’ll show you that a “cantata” by any other name sounds just as sweet.

By the eighteenth century, the term cantata generally referred to one or two specific musical genres, but before the word cantata had these distinct meanings, it simply referred to any piece meant to be sung, usually with instrumental accompaniment. In the spirit of that earlier and broader definition that we present a selection of Baroque works for choir and orchestra, including J.S. Bach’s cantata *Jesu, der du meine Seele*, Charpentier’s sumptuous and martial *Te Deum*, Jerúsalem’s ode *Al combate* (receiving its Texas and period-instrument premiere), and *Ad pedes* from Buxtehude’s moving *Membra Jesu nostri*. Though they’re not all cantatas in the strictest sense, we’ll show you that a “cantata” by any other name sounds just as sweet.