Frankfurt am Main, February 6, 1965
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Come Sunday — The Sacred Music of Duke Ellington

Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 3:30pm
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Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church
3826 Wheeler Avenue
Houston, Texas 77004
Continuing a tradition begun with Dave Brubeck and [...]

Portrait of Mendelssohn by the English miniaturist James Warren Childe (1778-1862), 1839

After Bach

Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
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Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
500 Texas Ave.
Houston, Texas 77002
Da Camera of Houston and the Houston Chamber Choir collaborate once again, this time to trace the influences of [...]

Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009, at 3:30 p.m.
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St. Philip Presbyterian Church
4807 San Felipe St.
Houston, Texas 77056
2009 marks the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death. In tribute, the Houston Chamber Choir, soloists and period instrumentalists present “Esther,” Handel’s [...]

The Houston Chamber Choir
Hear the Future — 11th Annual Invitational School Choral Festival

Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
FREE Concert

South Main Baptist Church (directions)
4100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77002
Co-sponsored by AMC Music, Hear the Future pays tribute to the essential work done by outstanding choral music educators in our region and their excellent choirs. Enjoy this [...]

Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский (Igor Fjodorovič Stravinsky)
As a part of this season of Da Camera of Houston, the Houston Chamber Choir will perform Свадебка (Les Noces) by Igor Stravinsky under the direction of noted conductor Reinbert de Leeuw. In an interesting twist, this performance is coming the week before Holy Week. Actual ballet [...]

At right, the organ of Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church

 
The best photo I could get of the Chapel at the Villa de Matel Convent in Houston
Yeah, it’s been a while since my last update. I was shocked to see just how long it had been. Oh [...]

For me, January is one of the dullest months of the year music-wise. The great and austere world of the fine arts is in that peculiar span of time just after Christmas/New Year’s and before things start revving up again in February and March to the crescendo that, for me at least, will not [...]

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.
- Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; J. K. Rowling)

Dave Brubeck is the last of the great jazz icons. Kenton, Getz, Davis, Gillespie, Coltrane…so many gone. And at 86 years of age, he plays as well as he ever has. Yesterday [...]

Giants still walk among us. And among the pantheon of the Great Ones of jazz music, Dave Brubeck stands tall. And for the first time in twenty-or-so years, and perhaps for the last time ever, he is returning to Houston.
Saturday 2 December at Temple Beth-Yeshurun, he and [...]