A Little Day Music: Celebrating Black History Month
Event details
- Wednesday | February 7 | 12:00 PM
- Grand Foyer, Wortham Theater Center
- 501 Texas Ave, Houston TX 77002
- 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com
- For groups of 10 or more, call 713-524-7601 ext. 19
DACAMERA Young Artists Nanki Chugh, violin; Christian Harvey, double bass; Weilan Li, viola; Jonathan Mak, piano; Brooke Wyatt, jazz piano; with alumni artist Jacob Schafer, violin; and guest artist Kristiana Ignatjeva, cello
Joseph Bologne: String Quartet No. 1
Mason Bynes: The [WRECK]oning
William Grant Still: Three Visions
Jessie Montgomery: Source Code
Brooke Wyatt: One Day
Medley: Wade in the Water; Edwin Hawkins: Oh Happy Day; Jill Scott: Golden
A Little Day Music is a series of free concerts presented at noon on the first Wednesday of the month in the Grand Foyer of the Wortham Center. Each concert is designed to deliver DACAMERA’s signature programming to an audience including senior citizens, downtown professionals and students. The series features a variety of chamber music and jazz, presented in an accessible, one-hour concert format. Audiences are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening to the music.
Recommended Concerts
Elias String Quartet; Sarah Rothenberg, piano
- Friday | February 9 | 7:30 PM
- Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
The intense, vibrant Elias Quartet returns to the DACAMERA stage for one night only following their historic Beethoven string quartet cycle in 2022. Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg joins the quartet for Brahms’ majestic Piano Quintet. We celebrate composer Fanny Mendelssohn with her rhapsodic Quartet in E-flat Major, one of the first surviving string quartets by a woman.
Danish String Quartet
- Friday | February 16 | 8:00 PM
- Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
The Grammy-nominated Danish Quartet is among the world’s finest string quartets, renowned for impeccable musicianship, sophisticated artistry and, above all, an unmatched ability to play as one. Music of Schubert (“Death and the Maiden”), Purcell, Haydn and Shostakovich.
DACAMERA Young Artists: Vertigo of Color
- Thursday, February 29, 6:30 PM
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s exhibition Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism.
