The Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association cordially invites you to join us for Zoom presentation by Gisela Kallenbach, on Saturday, January 14, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. (registration link below). She has led an extraordinary life under communist dictatorship in the former East Germany and in a free, democratic Germany. Gisela Kallenbach is a person who experienced […]
We are delighted to present Jeffrey S. Sposato, Professor of Musicology at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston, on Friday, September 14, 2018, at Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005. Wine and cheese reception at 6:30 p.m, talk at 7:00 p.m. Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian […]
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 […]
Leipzig. Franziska von Sohl. Two new records: international visitors and ticket sales This year’s Leipzig Bach Festival drew to a close on June 18 with a performance of the Mass in B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach in St. Thomas’ Church, Leipzig (Germany). Nearly 71,000 visitors attended the 120-plus events that made up the ten-day […]
American Space Leipzig is an initiative between the University of Leipzig and the U.S. Government to encourage learning, exchange, and dialogue between the United States and Germany. The first center of its type in Central Germany, it offers a public platform for dialog and exchange between the USA and Germany on a local level. Its […]
Houston, Texas – UPDATE: September 15, 2015 – The Moores School of Music at the University of Houston proudly announces a guest recital with mezzo-soprano Henriette Reinhold and pianist Vita Gajevska (students from Hochschule für Musik, Leipzig – the school that Mendelssohn started in 1843, and that greats like Schumann, attended) on Friday, October 2, […]
If you are in Leipzig this week, why don’t you watch a movie in English – American Studies Leipzig presents The Public Enemy on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the American Studies Room GWZ 2.5.16. For more information, check out their website: http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/content/asl-film-screening-series-public-enemy-1931
Prof. Stephen Klineberg of Rice University is currently visiting Leipzig, and will give a presentation at the University of Leipzig, organized by the Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association and the Department of American Studies Leipzig, entitled “The Significance of the Houston-Leipzig Sister City Relationship: A Houston Perspective” on June 15, 2012, at 4:15 p.m. The event […]
