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september
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Bernstein - Overture to Candide Coleridge-Taylor - Variations on an African Air DiLorenzo - Anthem of Hope "Houston Strong" Still - Afro-American Symphony Tower - Made in America
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Bernstein – Overture to Candide
Coleridge-Taylor – Variations on an African Air
DiLorenzo – Anthem of Hope “Houston Strong”
Still – Afro-American Symphony
Tower – Made in America
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
Location
Dunham Theater, Morris Cultural Arts Center
7502 Fondren, Houston, TX 77074
Featured Performer Biography
Joan Tower is highly regarded as one of the most important American composers living today. Her music career has spanned more than 50 years. She has worked as a composer, performer, conductor and educator. She paved the way for many female musicians as the first woman to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for her composition Silver Ladders and the first composer chosen for a Ford Made in America consortium commission of sixty-five orchestras. More. . .
William Grant Still had a career that was comprised of many “firsts”. He was the first African-American composer to have a symphony performed by a professional orchestra in the U.S., the Symphony no. 1 “Afro-American” (1930). More. . .
Leonard Bernstein was a true Renaissance man. 2018 marks his centennial year. More. . .
Emmy award winning composer Anthony DeLorenzo . . . more
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor heard American spirituals sung by the Fisk Jubilee singers on one of their tours. He became interested in African-American folk song and began . . . more. . .
november
11nov2:00 pmLe Van KhoaTicketed Event - The Music of Le Van Khoa
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The Music of Le Van Khoa Vietnam 1975 Symphony Song of the Black Horse Dream of My Homeland Additional works TBD
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The Music of Le Van Khoa
Vietnam 1975 Symphony
Song of the Black Horse
Dream of My Homeland
Additional works TBD
Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Dunham Theater, Morris Cultural Arts Center
7502 Fondren, Houston, TX 77074
30nov7:30 pmChristmas at Houston Baptist University
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Christmas at Houston Baptist University Program TBD
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Christmas at Houston Baptist University
Program TBD
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
Location
Dunham Theater, Morris Cultural Arts Center
7502 Fondren, Houston, TX 77074
january
18jan7:00 pmCivic at St. Mark'sFree concert at St. Martin's Episcopal Church
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Beethoven - Symphony no. 6 "Pastoral" Stanford - Concert Piece for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 181 featuring David Henning Additional work TBD Michael Isadore, conducting
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Beethoven – Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral”
Stanford – Concert Piece for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 181
featuring David Henning
Additional work TBD
Michael Isadore, conducting
Time
(Friday) 7:00 pm
Location
St. Martin's Episcopal Church
717 Sage Rd, Houston, TX 77056
march
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Higdon - blue cathedral Winners of the Young Artist Competition Strauss - Tod und Verklarung
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Higdon – blue cathedral
Winners of the Young Artist Competition
Strauss – Tod und Verklarung
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
Location
Dunham Theater, Morris Cultural Arts Center
7502 Fondren, Houston, TX 77074
Featured Performer Biography
Pulitzer Prize and two-time Grammy-winner
Jennifer Higdon . . . more . . .
Richard Strauss was born in Munich . . . more . . .
april
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Barber - First Essay for Orchestra Bottesini - Double Bass Concerto no. 2 Robin Kesselman, bass Tchaikovsky - Symphony no. 4
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Barber – First Essay for Orchestra
Bottesini – Double Bass Concerto no. 2
Robin Kesselman, bass
Tchaikovsky – Symphony no. 4
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
Location
Dunham Theater, Morris Cultural Arts Center
7502 Fondren, Houston, TX 77074
Featured Performer Biography
Robin Kesselman was appointed Principal Bass of the Houston Symphony Orchestra . . . more . . .
