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Tuesday music pix: Busy, with tough choices
Tuesday, March 31, is tough when it comes to classical music choices. The new or the historic? Running up against the evening concert of the always interesting University of Texas New Music Ensemble is the legendary St. John’s College Choir, the UK-based choir with a most notable history dating back centuries. Before that, UT’s Bach Cantata Project, the little noon-time concert series that could.
I plan to attend the Bach Cantata Project. Then in evening, it’s going to be a tough coin toss.
Bach Cantata Project
The Bach Cantata Project has become something of a phenom in the three years since it started. Crowds now show up at noon on the last Tuesday of every month to hear one of Bach’s 200 cantatas presented by UT faculty and staff musicians in the Blanton Museum. This month it’s ‘Himmelskönig, sei willkommen.’ Noon. Blanton Museum of Art, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Brazos Street. Free with museum admission ($3-$7). 471-5401. www.blantonmuseum.org
St. John’s College Choir<br>
With a history dating to the 17th century, Cambridge University’s St. John’s College Choirs is simply one of the finest all-male collegiate choirs in the world. Their current five-state, nine-concert tour brings the 30-member choir to town, a guest of UT’s Butler School of Music, for a concert that includes Byrd’s Four-Part Mass, Howells’ Gloucester Service, Swayne’s Magnificat and Holst’s Nunc Dimittis, among other works, 7 p.m. St. Austin Catholic Church, 2026 Guadalupe St. $20 ($15 seniors, $10 students). 471-5401. www.music.utexas.edu.
St. John’s College Choir has terrific online webcasts for free listening opporturnites.
UT New Music Ensemble
The music of visiting composer Gabriela Lena Frank pulls from indigenous Peruvian music and legends. And a new work by Ian Dicke, ‘Lunatic Fringe,’ uses chamber orchestra and pre-recorded voice to plumb the last decade of American politics. 8 p.m. Bates Recital Hall, Butler School of Music, UT campus. Free. 471-5401. www.music.utexas.edu.
The UT New Music Ensemble concert will be webcast live.
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