Stop, Look and Listen! | The Iconic Portrait Strand

Event details

  • Saturday, January 20 | FREE
  • 3:00 PM
  • The Menil Collection
  • 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston TX 77006

DACAMERA and The Menil Collection present Stop, Look and Listen!

DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the exhibition The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy, on view through January 21, 2024.

Nicky Sohn: Humidity Rag
Alejandro Basulto: Remedios para el Sueño
Karim Al-Zand: Ignoble Dances
Brooke Wyatt: One Day
Also, Young Artist composer Gavin Goodrich will select an audience member and compose their musical “portrait” during the concert, and it will be performed by his fellow Young Artists to conclude the event.

Andrea Benabent, piano; Gavin Goodrich, composer; Anne Pinkerton, oboe; Hunter O’Brien, flute; Brooke Wyatt, piano

Meet the Young Artists here.

Stop, Look and Listen! is a series of free chamber music and jazz concerts presented in one of Houston’s most inspiring and stimulating environments, the world-renowned Menil Collection. Admission to the Menil is always free.

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