- Friday | February 20 | 7:30 PM
- Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
- 800 Bagby. Houston TX 77002
- 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com
World Premiere | DACAMERA Production
Program
COLIN JACOBSEN: Beloved, Do Not Let Me Be Discouraged
GABRIELA LENA FRANK: Frida’s Dreams (world premiere/DACAMERA co-commission)
OSVALDO GOLIJOV: Ever Yours
Selected folk songs arranged by Brooklyn Rider
Musicians and Creative Team
Brooklyn Rider (JOHNNY GANDELSMAN, violin; COLIN JACOBSEN, violin; NICHOLAS CORDS, viola; MICHAEL NICOLAS, cello); GABRIELA LENA FRANK, guest composer; DACAMERA Young Artists; CAMILLA TASSI, projection design
Composer Gabriela Lena Frank explores the tumultuous relationship between Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in a new string quartet based on her acclaimed 2021 opera El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego), a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). This new multi-media DACAMERA production features projections based on the paintings of Frida Kahlo.
With their gripping performance style and unquenchable appetite for musical adventure, Brooklyn Rider has carved a singular space in the world of string quartets over their 20-plus year history. Now, they make their long-awaited DACAMERA debut. DACAMERA Young Artists join the quartet for Osvaldo Golijov’s octet Ever Yours and Brooklyn Rider’s arrangements of traditional folk music.
In conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s exhibition Frida: The Making of an Icon
“recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.”
— NPR Music on Brooklyn Rider
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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).
Julia Bullock, soprano; Conor Hanick, piano | Harawi
- Friday | January 30 | 8:00 PM
- Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
Two luminous musicians shine their collective light on French composer Olivier Messiaen’s grandest song cycle.
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Connection
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