Texas Toot, Inc.
(formerly known as The Texas Early Music Festival)

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NOW AVAILABLE: Please visit the Summer Toot page on the AEM website for full information about classes and registration!

Because of the pandemic, the 2021 Summer Toot is being presented online, through the gracious support of Amherst Early Music (AEM). It will be structured very much like the Fall 2020 Toot, with a Friday meet-and-greet followed by Saturday and Sunday classes. The dates are August 13-15, 2021.

Our featured faculty this year include:

• RECORDERS: Alison Melville, Annette Bauer, Frances Blaker, Nina Stern, Tish Berlin
• VIOLS: John Mark Rozendaal, Mary Springfels, Patricia Neely, Ros Morley
• Christa Patton (harp), Peter Maund (percussion), Oregon Renaissance Band: Phil Neuman, Gayle Neuman, Laura Kuhlman (recorders, reeds, strings)

For over forty years, we've been holding workshops and providing early music fun and learning for amateurs and aficionados alike!

The Summer Toot 2022 will be held at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas.

Additional Contact Info

The Texas Toot
Daniel Johnson, Workshop Director
Susan Richter, Assistant Director

Feel free to write, call, or email us if you have questions or need further information.

November 21 and 22, 2020
Registration Now Open!

AEM ONLINE hosts the FALL 2020 TEXAS TOOT!
November 20-22

Directed by: Danny Johnson and Susan Richter
Faculty Mary Springfels, Frances Blaker, Tish Berlin, Jennifer Carpenter, Peter Maund, Saskia Coolen, Annette Bauer, Sarah Mead, Christa Patton, Ros Morley, Patricia Ann Neely, Priscilla Herreid.

Click here to see the complete list of classes
Click here to register!

Register for any number of sessions - classes are $25 per session. After you register, you will receive an email with a link to a webpage for each class, where you can access music and any other class materials, along with the Zoom session link (which will be added 24 hours before the class). Workshop pitch is A = 440.
Class sessions are offered using the Zoom meeting app, or your web browser. Class sessions run 90 minutes, with 15 minutes for introductions and last minute tech help, and 75 minutes of class time. New to Zoom? Join us on Friday afternoon for a Zoom Tutorial session.

Click on the Fall Toot link in the left menu to see more details, including all the classes offered and the schedule. Thanks a million to Amherst Early Music for making this Online Toot possible!

We're not sure what the coming year will bring, but we hope there will be joyous celebration of playing together in person once again! If not, then at least (necessity being the mother of invention) enterprising people have made great leaps in technology, letting us come virtually together to play the music we love.

For over forty years, we've been holding workshops and providing early music fun and learning for amateurs and aficionados alike! The Fall Toot is normally held at Lakeview Methodist Conference Center near Palestine, Texas.

Music to be prepared: Motets for the Church Year by Jacob Handl (Jacobus Gallus) For more complete details about this year's workshop, see the brochure — or click on the Polyphony Weekend link in the left-hand menu. Workshop leader: Dr. William P. Mahrt, of Stanford University (California). If you have questions about the Polyphony Weekend, please e-mail us: polyphony@toot.org

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The Texas Toot is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, organized "to promote the preservation and performance of early music by amateur musicians with voice and reproductions of period instruments". Donations to the Texas Toot are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, and you will receive a receipt for tax purposes.