Our mission is to inspire individuals and enrich communities through diverse and inventive musical experiences.
UPCOMING EVENTS
A LITTLE DAY MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, May 1 | 12:00 PM
GRAND FOYER, Wortham Theater Center
The long-running lunchtime series wraps up for the season with DACAMERA Young Artists performing some of their favorites among the pieces they have performed this year.
Adam Tendler, piano: “Inheritances”
Tuesday, May 7 | 7:30 PM
The Menil Collection
Adam Tendler used his inheritance to commission a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new works exploring the idea of inheritance,’ including Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, Angélica Negrón, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli and more.
Read Adam’s essay about this project from The New York Times.
Kurt Elling Quartet featuring Danilo Pérez
Friday, May 10 | 8:00 PM
Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
Two 2-time Grammy winning vocalist is joined by pianist Danilo Pérez, with Elling adding evocative new lyrics to compositions by greats like Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, and visionary composer/arranger Vince Mendoza, and to pieces from Pérez’s own catalog.
DACAMERA IN THE NEWS
New York Times previews Music for New Bodies
Joshua Barone of The New York Times previews Saturday night’s premiere of composer Matthew Aucoin and director Peter Sellars’s Music for New Bodies, inspired by the poetry of Jorie Graham.
“In five movements sprawling across 70 minutes, “New Bodies” sets poems by Graham about the earth and humanity that are told in shifting voices and registers, channeling natural forces and at times evoking the mind under anesthesia. Although its expansiveness and form recall Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde,” it is neither a song cycle nor a symphony. It is perhaps closest to opera, though mostly, it is what it is.”
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