- Thursday | January 22 | 6:30 PM
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Beck Building Atrium
- 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston TX 77005
DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the exhibition Art and Life in Imperial Rome: Trajan and His Times.
DACAMERA Young Artists Chloe de Souza, piano; Adam W. Sadberry, flute; with alumni artist Kelsey Sham, harp
Charles Griffes: Roman Sketches, Op.7
Jules Moquet: Divertissement grec, Op. 23
Christoph Willibald Gluck: Minuet and Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Modern transcriptions of ancient melodies by Mesomedes and Athenaeus, son of Athenaeus
Free event. Admission to the museum is free on Thursdays.
RECOMMENDED EVENTS
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.
Brooklyn Rider: Frida’s Dreams
- Friday | February 20 | 7:30 PM
- Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
Brooklyn Rider’s DACAMERA debut, with the world premiere of a new string quartet by acclaimed composer Gabriela Lena Frank, inspired by paintings of Frida Kahlo. Plus music of Colin Jacobsen and Osvaldo Golijov and arrangements of folk songs. In conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s exhibition Frida: The Making of an Icon, on view January 19 to May 17.
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.
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.
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