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 […]