THEREMIN FANTASIES This Friday and Saturday the Apollo Chamber Players host THEREMIN FANTASIES, exploring the unique sound-world of the theremin, an electronic instrument played without physical contact by the performer. Leipzig-based theremin superstar Carolina Eyck joins Apollo for her first ever concert in the Bayou City, with an arresting theremin-featuring septet by Czech composer Martinů […]
The following was published by the U.S. Consulate Leipzig and the U.S. Embassy Berlin: The Steuben-Schurz Society, the oldest German American friendship organization, annually awards the most active German-American sister city relationship and we are so happy to be able to say it’s #leipzighouston this year! Their call for applications was heard by the City […]
We wish you a terrific New Year 2019, filled with health, happiness, and prosperity! Our first meeting of the New Year is on January 10, 2019, and we have a great speaker on a topic that has affected all of us in one way or another. Dr. Irene Guenther presents “The remarkable, haunting Life of […]
It’s been an exciting time in Leipzig where we celebrated Houston-in-Leipzig week during the last ten days in October. About 38 people from Houston came for the celebrations. They included poets, authors, ballet dancers, bloggers, musicians, and, of course, many of our members. We’ll be sending reports and lots of pictures soon. Our next meeting […]
Germany has taken in more than 1,000,000 asylum seekers and fugitives, and we are all wondering how it is going to work out. Will they assimilate? Will they take us over? Do join us on Thursday, August 9, 6:30 p.m. at L’Alliance Française, 427 Lovett, Houston, TX 77006 (please note parking restrictions below) to see […]
Houston-Leipzig Summer Movie Night July 19, 2018, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. L’Alliance Française It’s too hot outside – come and watch a delightful satiric comedy (comedic satire?) with us! It’s almost time for Houston-Leipzig’s July movie night, and we cordially invite you to join us for Billy Wilder’s Cold War classic comedy One, Two, Three […]
University of Houston (UH) musicologist Jeffrey Sposato spearheaded the performance of original music from the 300th Lutheran Reformation church service in 1817 200 years later on October 31, 2017, for the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in Leipzig. Sposato discovered the music and liturgy used at the Nikolaikirche for the 300th Reformation […]
Get in the mood for Christmas with the Houston Saengerbund Christmas Concert on Tuesday, December 5, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1311 Holman Street, Houston, TX 77004, and experience traditional German Christmas songs and treats. Admission to the concert is free. The Concert will include a variety of traditional songs sung […]
Please join us for a stimulating talk with German Consul General Thomas H. Meister and Member of German Parliament, MdB Dagmar Freitag (SPD), also Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group USA, about the recent German elections on Thursday, October 5, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at L’Alliance Française, 427 Lovett Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006. After Germany’s elections, […]
The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston is hosting A Moores to Mendelssohn Celebration, a FREE recital featuring students from the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,” a Moores School of Music partner school in Leipzig, on Monday, October 2, 2017, in Dudley Recital Hall, Moores School […]
