- Friday | January 30 | 8:00 PM
- Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
- 501 Texas Ave. Houston TX 77002
- 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com
Program
MESSIAEN: Harawi (Chant d’amour et de mort/Song of Love and Death)
A rare Houston performance from Grammy Award-winning classical vocalist Julia Bullock, admired both for her critically-acclaimed performances at the Metropolitan Opera as well as original, boundary-breaking recitals of astounding intensity. Appearing here with frequent collaborator and virtuosic soloist Conor Hanick, these two luminous musicians shine their collective light one of the vocal masterpieces of the 20th century.
Olivier Messiaen’s heartrending Harawi transports us to the world of the Quechua people of the Andes. It is Messiaen’s grandest song cycle, with bird song, forbidding stone statues and the tenderest affairs of the heart conjured in sound. The music shifts effortlessly from the influence of underground jazz in wartime Paris to a Peru of legendary folk song, where monkeys jabber and dancers shake their ankle bracelets. Messiaen’s inimitable dazzling harmonies and rhythms cast a magical spell in this story of timeless love.
“[Bullock is] one of the singular artists of her generation, a singer of enveloping tone, startlingly mature presence and unusually sophisticated insight into culture, society and history.”
— The New York Times
“[Hanick is a pianist whose] technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master.”
— The New York Times
RECOMMENDED EVENTS
Other Worlds: Season Overture
- Friday | October 3 | 7:00 PM
- Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
DACAMERA’s Other Worlds season opens with an all-star cast of artists in a varied program of solo and chamber works that sets the stage for what is to come: virtuosic Romanticism, Bluegrass and folk influences and the sublime beauty of Schubert.
Matthias Goerne, baritone; Daniil Trifonov, piano
- Wednesday | October 29 | 7:30 PM
- Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
DACAMERA’s Schubert Perspectives series kicks off with two titans of the classical world. Hear Trifonov play Schubert solo, and then the two artists come together for the song cycle Schwanengesang (Swan Songs).
D’Est En Musique (From the East)
- Friday | January 16 | 7:00 PM
- Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
French-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and pianist Sarah Rothenberg bring Wieder-Atherton and filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s D’est En Musique to the US. Music of Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Chopin, Martinů, Janáček, Bartók and more.
OUR VALUES
Connection
We value and nurture rich and often unexpected connections among musical genres, art forms, and ideas; between people and places; between the past and the present.
Exploration
We believe that openness to new experiences and enthusiasm for learning are vital to human experience. At the vanguard of arts organizations, we continually evolve our ways of presenting to combine an unusual mix of in-depth exploration and accessibility.
Excellence
DACAMERA has become synonymous with quality; the common denominator of our diverse activities, on stage and in the community, is excellence.
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