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The Houston Saengerbund is pleased to announce that the Houston Saengerbund Men’s Chorus will perform under the direction of their vibrant Music Director Mary Kay Buehler at the prestigious Round Top Music Festival on Saturday, June 27, 2015. Their performance from 6:45 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. leads up to the Texas Festival Orchestra performance under […]
Alexander’s Feast—Or, The Power of Music by G.F. Handel, is a remarkable musical tale. It relates how the rapturous song of a musician named Timotheus aroused and moved Alexander the Great. Bach Society Houston collaborates with Ars Lyrica Houston for the closing event of this season. The Bach Choir performs the choral portion of Handel’s […]
We are extraordinarily lucky to present to you Ambassador Sichan Siv at our meeting on May 21, 2015. Following is his abbreviated biography. Sichan Siv is the international bestselling author of Golden Bones, an American dream story, published by HarperCollins. In 2001 after unanimous confirmation by the Senate, he was appointed by President George W. […]
The first time or maybe many other times that you went to downtown Houston, did you wonder what that building was with towers and turrets that looked like a castle? And then, as you were passing by, you saw banners pronouncing The Carpetbagger’s Children (2000-01), a premiere by famous Texan Horton Foote commissioned by the […]
We are delighted to welcome Dramaturg Paul Hopper to our Houston-Leipzig meeting on Thursday, March 26, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall at 2353 Rice Boulevard, Houston, TX 77005. He is the Houston Grand Opera’s expert on Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen, and of course this season’s Die Walküre. Opera patrons love […]
Please join us on Thursday, February 19, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. in welcoming Gary McHenry, a Life Member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Executive Vice Chairman of the Speakers Committee, Member of the Mutton Bustin Committee, and a Member of the Salt Grass Trail Association, and its Magnificent Wagon 7. The Salt Grass Trail […]
The German Consulate General Houston, in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) and St. Thomas University, cordially invites you to a special evening with German Geophysicist Alexander Gerst on February 18, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. in the Scanlan Room, Jerabeck Athletic Center, St. Thomas University. We are looking forward to an exciting presentation by […]
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]o honor the historic significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig made a 25-year anniversary tour in the United States. President George H. W. Bush and Secretary of State James A. Baker III, both in office at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, were Honorary […]
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.
