Dear Members and Friends of Houston-Leipzig, Our 2013 President is out of town, and I volunteered to be in charge for our upcoming meeting on July 18. I am sure that we will have an enjoyable summer evening with the movie Omamamia (German language, English subtitles), set in the eternal city of Rome. Let me […]
We hope you’ve had a wonderful summer so far. If you stayed in town, maybe you saw some fireworks on July 4, had some barbecue, spent some time with family and friends or just relaxed and enjoyed Independence Day. Thanks to our board members Walter and Eva Konrad, who brought a wonderful movie from Germany […]
This week several of our board members and a group of Bach aficionados led by Dr. Robert Moore will travel to Leipzig for Bachfest 2013, and on Thursday, June 13, our sister organization in Leipzig, the Staedtepartnerschaft Leipzig-Houston, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of our sister city relationship. We’ll post a report and pictures soon. […]
The Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association was founded in 1993 on the principles of President Eisenhower’s people-to-people citizen diplomacy initiative, which had at its core the idea that people who know each other do not wage war on each other. During the last twenty years, a myriad of citizens exchanged ideas, looked at each other’s workplace […]
Bachfest Leipzig: June 14 – June 23, 2013 Bachfest 2013 begins on Friday, June 14, with a concert at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. From then until June 23 Bachfest 2013 will include 114 performances at over 30 venues in and around Leipzig. The opening concert will be broadcast simultaneously on the market square […]
Degenerate Art– “entartete Kunst” – declared so by the German Nazi government in the 1930s. Virtually all modern art was declared degenerate by the Nazi regime, and was banned because they deemed it to be un-German or Bolshevist. The artists in this exhibit of paper works were prohibited to create works under the expressionist styles. […]
The Texas Music Festival presents two concerts featuring soloist Jessica Findley, winner of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition. The first concert on Friday, June 14, 2013, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in the Woodlands at 8:00 p.m. is free. The second concert is on Saturday, June 15, 2013, Moores School of Music, […]
Today we remember those who gave their lives for their country. Reach out to the family of a fallen soldier, take time to comfort a child who lost a father or mother in the military, take time to help with a wounded-warrior or support-our-troops project, take time to pay respects to a veteran. In observance […]
Join Texas Music Festival in celebration of its 24th season featuring classical music’s rising stars in performance throughout the month of June. Enjoy over 30 live performances by students from top schools including The Julliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, and more in collaboration with distinguished conductors and faculty artists from […]
Christ the King Lutheran Church welcomes Dr. Margot Käßmann to preach and speak on June 8 and 9. The Rev. Dr. Käßmann is Ambassador of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) for the Reformation anniversary in 2017. A special luncheon on Sunday afternoon will offer more opportunity to meet Pastor Käßmann. Christ […]