A family-friendly classicA tale of resistance, courage, and joy The Sound of Music, whose story begins in the hills of Austria on the eve of the Nazis’ annexation, resonates as much today as during the musical’s 1959 premiere. Acclaimed director Francesca Zambello incorporates songs from both the theatrical version and its famous cinematic adaptation into […]
WindSync’s Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival invites you to celebrate the 15th anniversary of WindSync where it all began! WindSync musicians from founding to present reunite at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in their first concert at Duncan Hall since the graduation of the original student members. Guest performers for this special program of […]
A family-friendly classicA tale of resistance, courage, and joy The Sound of Music, whose story begins in the hills of Austria on the eve of the Nazis’ annexation, resonates as much today as during the musical’s 1959 premiere. Acclaimed director Francesca Zambello incorporates songs from both the theatrical version and its famous cinematic adaptation into […]
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has stumbled upon international and critical acclaim as hilarious and highly entertaining pluckers. Born of a rejection of convention and a penchant for reinterpretation, their catalogue is a menagerie of rock, pop, jazz, blues, and classical music. Dancing somewhere between sincerity and in-sanity, punk rock sensibilities and restrained British humor, […]
Tonight's program features works by Debussy, Smetana, and Mendelssohn. Chicago Classical Review remarks about the trio, "The music unfolded like a spontaneous, heady conversation among three intimate friends." PROGRAM DEBUSSY Piano Trio in G major SMETANA […]
There will be hell to pay640 girls in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, 1,003 in Spain. As the servant Leporello famously sings in his “Catalogue aria,” the eponymous fiend in Mozart’s sublime tragicomedy Don Giovanni has already been very busy when he beds the engaged Anna and then kills her father in […]
There will be hell to pay640 girls in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, 1,003 in Spain. As the servant Leporello famously sings in his “Catalogue aria,” the eponymous fiend in Mozart’s sublime tragicomedy Don Giovanni has already been very busy when he beds the engaged Anna and then kills her father in […]
This is an Indian Classical Vocal Music Concert of Morning Ragas by professional artists from India. The artist Mr Omkar Dadarkar is a highly acclaimed and recognized artist of younger generation. The morning Ragas are presented in the early morning hours till noon as Indian Classical Music Raga has a relationship between the particular hour […]
La Speranza’s season finale features the precocious talents of Felix Mendelssohn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with works written in the composers’ late teen years. Performers: Joanna Becker and Maria Lin, violins Yvonne Smith, viola Fran Koiner, cello
A family-friendly classicA tale of resistance, courage, and joy The Sound of Music, whose story begins in the hills of Austria on the eve of the Nazis’ annexation, resonates as much today as during the musical’s 1959 premiere. Acclaimed director Francesca Zambello incorporates songs from both the theatrical version and its famous cinematic adaptation into […]
A family-friendly classicA tale of resistance, courage, and joy The Sound of Music, whose story begins in the hills of Austria on the eve of the Nazis’ annexation, resonates as much today as during the musical’s 1959 premiere. Acclaimed director Francesca Zambello incorporates songs from both the theatrical version and its famous cinematic adaptation into […]
With this concert occurring on May 5, known to many as Cinco de Mayo, what could be a better title than "Fiesta!" So come prepared to hear a program that is uplifting, joyous, beautiful and 'just plain fun!' Join the party -- you never know just what might happen!