The time has come to get your tickets for the very special concert Monday night, November 3, 2014, when the world famous Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig comes to Jones Hall under the baton of Ricardo Chailly for the opening of its 2014 Celebratory U.S. tour right here in in Houston, Texas, at 7:30 p.m.
You do recall when Mayor Annise Parker held a press conference together with Secretary James A. Baker III, the Houston Symphony, and Houston-Leipzig board members in June, announcing the concert and the Honorary Chairs President George H. W. Bush and Secretary James A. Baker III : http://houstontx.swagit.com/play/06122014-887
The tour celebrates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Former President Bush and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, local Houstonians and two of the people instrumental in guiding two Germanys into a unified Germany, are Honorary Chairs of the concert. The tour ends in New York on November 9, 2014, 25 years to the day when the dreaded wall opened its gates to a whole country of people imprisoned within its confines. In short, take a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=groA9cqMxQU&feature=youtu.be
Listen to a brilliant presentation, and let the Gewandhaus speak for itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0DglrTw6KM . Wasn’t that great? Now you know why you must be part of this remarkable evening!
Let us all come on Monday evening, November 3, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. to the Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts and join Mayor Annise Parker, the German Consulate General Houston, the Houston Symphony, and the Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association for an evening of unparalleled enjoyment. Here is a link for those who haven’t been able to get their tickets – get them while there are a few good seats left: http://www.houstonsymphony.org/tickets/production/detail?id=6302 .
Join us also for a very special retrospective, The Miracle of Leipzig, of the 25th anniversary of the end of the Cold War at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University on Sunday, November 2, 2014, at 4:30 p.m. See details here: http://houstonleipzig.org/?p=3755
See you this weekend!