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 City Association or Christ the King Lutheran (CTK). Zentrum, the small compact center of town, is sublimely walkable and always we cross paths with fellow Houstonians, adding to the feeling of living there, belonging there, knowing the inhabitants. Actually, we do know the inhabitants. The generous Leipzigers who repeatedly host Houstonians are familiar faces, and we exchange greetings with them as we bustle from hotel to concerts to church services to restaurants to museums to receptions and to walking the narrow cobblestoned streets. Ever present among them is Gabriele Goldfuss from Mayor Burkhard Jung’s office and Pr. Christian Wolff from St. Thomaskirche. We met repeatedly with Renate and Rainer Jungandreas, who stayed with us during the friendship visit by Leipzigers to Houston in 2010. (more…)
27Oct 2014
Join us for a very special retrospective of the 25th anniversary of the end of the Cold War. The program will begin with a brief performance by Sinfonietta Leipzig, a group of Gewandhaus musicians composed of Volker Hemken, Bass Clarinet; Yun-Jin Cho and Karl Heinrich Niebuhr, Violins; Tahlia Petrosian, Viola; and Matthias Schreiber, Violoncello. An […]
26Oct 2014
CONCERT MARKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY MILESTONE OF FALL OF BERLIN WALL World renowned Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra begins celebratory U.S. tour in Houston on November 3 Former President George H. W. Bush and former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III to serve as honorary chairs of the concert Mayor Annise Parker, Leipzig Mayor Burkhard Jung, and […]
24Oct 2014
The Bach Society Houston is proud to present John Scott, Organist and Director of Music at St. Thomas Church in Manhattan, at the October 26, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice boulevard, Houston, TX 77005. He will delight listeners with selections from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Clavier-Übung III. John Scott […]
10Oct 2014
This is a reminder that in lieu of our monthly meeting in October, we are invited by the Consulate General of Germany to the Opening Reception of an incredibly moving and compelling exhibit, Postcards from the Trenches: Germans and Americans Visualize the Great War, on Thursday, October 23, 2014, at 6:30 p.m., at The Printing […]
27Sep 2014
Organ & Voice with Rick Erickson Opens Bach Society Season The Bach Society Houston cordially invites you on Sunday, September 28, at 6:00 pm for the opening of the Bach Society season featuring new Director Rick Erickson in a new event called Organ & Voice. The performance will be in the format of a Vespers […]
23Sep 2014
HOUSTON, TX (September 2, 2014) Bach Society Houston announces the engagement of Rick Erickson as its new Director, effective for the 2014-2015 season. A native of northern Wisconsin, organist Rick Erickson served since 1992 as Cantor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City where he directed the renowned Bach Vespers series. The oldest […]