Frisco Event
Music in the Chamber with Austin Baroque Orchestra
Event Details:
To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, each concert in the 2026 series features music from a 50-year period in American history, spanning from 1776 to 2026.
Austin Baroque Orchestra
May 29, 7:30 p.m.
Featuring music from 1776 to 1826
Soloists from the renowned Austin Baroque Orchestra present "Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind," evoking the sonic world of colonial North America in a commemoration of the first 50 years after American independence.
Featuring replicas of instruments from the 18th century and music from the four colonial powers — England, Spain, France, and the Netherlands — listeners will enjoy popular songs by late composers Ignacio Jerusalem, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Alexander Reinagle, and more.
Whether sounds from the cathedrals of New Spain, or the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans, or melodies originating in the small settlement of New Amsterdam, or the Revolutionary-War-era streets of Boston, this program invites the audience to consider how musical traditions crossed oceans, transformed cultures, and took root in American soil amid the complexities of colonial life.
Austin Baroque Orchestra
May 29, 7:30 p.m.
Featuring music from 1776 to 1826
Soloists from the renowned Austin Baroque Orchestra present "Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind," evoking the sonic world of colonial North America in a commemoration of the first 50 years after American independence.
Featuring replicas of instruments from the 18th century and music from the four colonial powers — England, Spain, France, and the Netherlands — listeners will enjoy popular songs by late composers Ignacio Jerusalem, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Alexander Reinagle, and more.
Whether sounds from the cathedrals of New Spain, or the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans, or melodies originating in the small settlement of New Amsterdam, or the Revolutionary-War-era streets of Boston, this program invites the audience to consider how musical traditions crossed oceans, transformed cultures, and took root in American soil amid the complexities of colonial life.