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 […]
Do join us for an Abendmusik concert by the incredibly talented ensemble amarcord from Leipzig this Sunday, April 14, 2013, at 6:00 p.m. The concert is presented by the Bach Society Houston at Christ the King Lutheran Church, and features selections from pre- and post-Reformation music, including chant melodies from the 14th century Thomasgraduale, early […]
“Rosa Loy has devoted herself to the theme of the feminine in all of its many facets since the start of her career as a painter, producing many fascinating figures. Her pictures are populated by women of all kinds: explorers, girlfriends, guards, dreamers, energetic workers, mysterious sphinxes, eavesdroppers, seductresses, protective mothers, and schemers, each of […]
Why is it that when there is a fabulous event that you really want to attend, you find that there is always one equally enticing at the same time? This Thursday, January 24, 2013, the German American Chamber of Commerce in the Southern United States (Houston) cordially invites you to its New Year’s Reception on […]
My husband and I just returned from Leipzig. It was our 5th time and the city had become a familiar room in my life. Returning is not so much going away from home as opening a door and walking through. We joined others from Houston, those traveling with Houston Rotary or the Houston Leipzig Sister […]
Please join the American Studies Leipzig today for the lecture by Prof. Angela Miller (Washington University) on the topic of “Nature’s History: The Changing Cultural Image of Nature, from Romantic Nationalism to Land Art”. The event takes place on July 3 from 5-7pm in in room 2.516 of the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum (Universitaet Leipzig), Beethovenstr. 15, […]
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 […]
Leipzig (pts013/11.05.2012/10:15) – Unter dem Motto “Musik bewegt die Stadt” wird am 12. Mai 2012 mit einem originellen Musik- und Bürgerfest die “Leipziger Notenspur” eröffnet. Das einzigartige Wegeleitsystem verbindet auf einem fünf Kilometer langen Rundweg die wichtigsten Wohn- und Wirkungsstätten bedeutender Komponisten wie Johann Sebastian Bach, Edvard Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann und Richard […]
If you are German or of German heritage, you can conjure up the images evoked by the word Christkindlmarkt – immediately you smell the fennel and cinnamon, the eucalyptus, and the burnt almonds, and you can taste the Pfeffernuesse, the Printen, the Lebkuchen, and the Stolle.
Maeshelle first reported in the post Joan’s Fate/Who Dies for Love Nowadays? Heike Hennig about the Johannapark in Leipzig, its origin, and a new musical drama by Heike Hennig about the tragic Johanna, who was forced into a loveless marriage, and who died at age 21. Maeshelle now recounts a splendid evening and surprising information […]
