HOME DELIVERY

DACAMERA Home Delivery: curated music, commentary and artistic exchanges in the spirit of DACAMERA. These programs were distributed by email during the world-wide shut down of performing arts venues necessitated by Covid-19.

Installment #11: Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt

Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt in performance and conversation

In January 2017, DACAMERA inaugurated the James K. Schooler Fund Memorial concert with the first Houston recital appearance of world-renowned German violinist Christian Tetzlaff and Norwegian pianist Lars Vogt. It was a spectacular evening of music making. Featuring music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Bartók, each work on the program shows the composer’s experimental spirit. The performances are alive with a sense of discovery. The artists joined DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg for a lively pre-concert conversation.

Installment #5: Jeremy Denk and Sarah Rothenberg on Bach

In January 2017, DACAMERA inaugurated the James K. Schooler Fund Memorial concert with the first Houston recital appearance of world-renowned German violinist Christian Tetzlaff and Norwegian pianist Lars Vogt. It was a spectacular evening of music making. Featuring music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Bartók, each work on the program shows the composer’s experimental spirit. The performances are alive with a sense of discovery. The artists joined DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg for a lively pre-concert conversation.

Installment #10: The Diary of Virginia Woolf

A visit with Sarah Rothenberg

Join DACAMERA artistic director Sarah Rothenberg in her home as she discusses Virginia Woolf’s intimate diaries and explores Dominick Argento’s Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle, “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf.” Drawing on her staging of A Woman’s Life: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, a highlight of our 2019-20 season, in this informal visit Sarah interweaves her insights with excerpts of the DACAMERA performance featuring Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano.

Installment #4: Davone Tines

On April 7, DACAMERA was scheduled to present the first Houston recital by bass-baritone Davóne Tines. A true breakthrough artist, Tines is a “charismatic, full-voiced bass-baritone” says The New York Times. He was recently named a Next Generation Leader by Time magazine, which called him “A charismatic and commanding artist”; “poised for a major career” and “among the most compelling classically trained singers working in America today.” We are working closely with Tines to schedule his recital debut.

Installment #9: New releases from DACAMERA artists

 

In this edition of Home Delivery, we spotlight new recordings by DACAMERA artists. Enjoy exploring these new releases; we hope the music will bring some much-needed joy into your life. Remember, purchasing a recording is one of the most effective ways to support the musicians you love.

Installment #3: The Well Tempered Lens with Jeremy Denk

From Sarah Rothenberg:

As we continue to bring DACAMERA curated music into your home, I am pleased to announce our partnership with New York Public Radio’s WQXR & The Greene Space for live streaming of a three-part series with pianist Jeremy Denk on Bach’s Well-Tempered Klavier. We had looked forward to Jeremy’s performances for DACAMERA of J.S. Bach’s iconic work for keyboard, the 24 preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Klavier Book I, scheduled for April 27 and 28 at the Menil Collection. I invite you now to join Jeremy in this series of live video performances and conversations about Bach’s work, the first episode of which is archived here.

Installment #8: Mozart and Warhol at the Menil Collection

The Menil Collection is the inspiring setting for a performance by the Brentano String Quartet from February 2016, featuring Mozart’s sublime Quintet in G Minor, with guest violist Hsin-Yun Huang. The beauty of Mozart is set against Andy Warhol’s painting, Lavender Disaster [1963].

Installment #2: Music and Time: Sarah Rothenberg on Morton Feldman

From Sarah Rothenberg

MUSIC AND TIME: Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari

One of the essential elements of music is the way it defines time. In the simplest of comparisons, three minutes of fast music and three minutes of a slow adagio or a ballad will allow us to experience that equal measure of time very differently. As we all stay at home during this period of semi-confinement, many of us are noticing how, with the interruption of our normal daily routines, our sense of time is disrupted. For some, without the stimuli of engaging with others or moving about physically, this time may be become unusually slow, and even empty. It is as though our lives are missing the musical bar lines by which we usually measure the day.

Installment #7: Exclusive conversation with Dafnis Prieto

Welcome to a new installment of DACAMERA Home Delivery. Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto was scheduled to return to our stage in March. Dafnis won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz album for a recording with his newest project, the Dafnis Prieto Big Band. Back to the Sunset was called “one of the best recordings of the year” by the editors of DownBeat. Since making his DACAMERA debut in 2009 and earning a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2011, Prieto has racked up rave reviews, prestigious commissions and multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations.

Installment #1: Beethoven and Richard Goode

From Sarah Rothenberg

I hope this finds you well and safe. I send warm greetings to you as we navigate separately yet together the challenges of our present moment. Missing the sense of community we all feel when we gather at DACAMERA concerts, I hope that by reaching out to you with thoughts and music, we can listen together and keep that special spirit alive. We are working at DACAMERA to find new ways to be in touch during this period, and hope to hear from you, as well.

Music evokes powerful emotions, and has the extraordinary capability of taking us out of one emotional state and into another. There have been several mornings in this past week that I have awakened in a state of anxiety, only to find that in sitting at the piano and playing Bach I am able, at the same time, to feel ecstasy.

Installment #6: Education and Community Initiatives

Welcome to the sixth installment of DACAMERA Home Delivery. Today, we are pleased to share with you some examples of how DACAMERA has remained a dynamic part of the Houston community, even while practicing social distancing.

In addition to the mainstage concert series each season, DACAMERA presents hundreds of education and community events across Greater Houston. DACAMERA’s Education and Community Initiatives department works to create opportunities that ensure equitable access to meaningful interactions with the highest quality chamber music and jazz for all audiences. The majority of these events are delivered by the talented members of the DACAMERA Young Artist Program.

We offer a broad range of repertoire and musical styles in innovative concerts of outstanding musical excellence.

DACAMERA is widely acclaimed for its innovative programming, notably Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg’s unique concerts connecting music with literature and the visual arts.

We believe that openness to new experiences and enthusiasm for learning are vital to human experience.

DACAMERA has a robust Education and Community Initiatives effort, providing community concerts and extensive in-school programs.

Your support ensures that DACAMERA’s programs, both in the concert hall and beyond, remain a vital part of Houston’s cultural landscape.