Multi-Media Presentation by Prof. Jeff Sposato on Friday, September 14, 2018, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005
We cordially invite you to a fun evening on Friday, September 14, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at Brazos Bookstore with a multi-media presentation by Prof. Jeff Sposato, Moores School of Music (UH), about the music scene in Leipzig after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. Dr. Sposato has written a delightful book: Leipzig After Bach. We will start with a wine and cheese reception at 6:30 p.m. at Brazos Bookstore; Sposato’s presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m., and we hope to see you all there. Please RSVP here.
Leipzig is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847. But the century in between these events was critically important as well. During this period, Leipzig’s church music enterprise was convulsed by repeated external threats-a growing middle class that viewed music as an object of public consumption, religious and political tumult, and the chaos of the Seven Years and Napoleonic wars.
Prof. Jeff Sposato in Leipzig in October 2018
Houston and Leipzig are celebrating 25 years sister city relationship this year, and Leipzig is at the forefront of the festivities. There will be a week of activities and events in Leipzig from October 23 to 31, 2018, all honoring Houston and its citizens, including Prof. Sposato, who will reprise his multi-media presentation. Among other notables are Deborah Mouton, Houston’s Poet Laureate; three bloggers from Houston; and the Houston Ballet will participate in a collaboration with the Leipzig Ballet that includes a work by Stanton Welch, the Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet. Would you like to join us in Leipzig? We are leading a group of Houstonians and Houston-Leipzig Members to Leipzig in October.
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Max Klinger Trio – Leipzig Guest Recital – Shepherd School of Music
On Saturday, September 29, 2018, at 8:00 p.m., the Max Klinger Piano Trio (3 players, violin, cello and piano) from the Leipzig conservatory (Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig) will perform a guest artist recital, at Duncan Recital Hall, the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005. For the finale, they will be joined by a few Shepherd students. This concert is part of the Shepherd School’s chamber music exchange program with the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Leipzig, Germany. Parking information here. Wine and Cheese Reception following the concert sponsored by the Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association (location to be announced).
Houston-Leipzig October Meeting with the Bach Society Houston
In 1817, the St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig staged a grand celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Reformation. For our October meeting, we join the Bach Society Houston for their concert when they re-create the spectacular Reformation Mass 1817, which will include the American premiere of a majestic Mass by Vincenzo Righini, a contemporary of Mozart, a work which Professor Jeffrey Sposato discovered in European archives while researching his new book Leipzig After Bach. Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Boulevard, Houston, TX 77005. Pre-concert lecture by Prof. Sposato at 5:15 p.m. in the Parish Hall.
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Have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next Friday at Brazos Bookstore!
