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 […]
The movie last month about the building and eventual fall of the Wall left us excited, overwhelmed, and thankful. But what came afterwards? Join us for the movie After the Wall: A World United by Executive Producer and Houstonian John Hesse on Thursday, September 18, 2014, at 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall, 2353 Rice […]
Time is running away from us, and we’re trying to catch up …. Please help us make the concert by the Gewandhaus Orchestra a rousing success. Thank you to all, who have already given, but we still need donations; even small sums can help! Click the “Please Help . . .” button at the upper […]
Otello! – Cosí Fan Tutte! – A Christmas Carol! – Madame Butterfly! – The Magic Flute! – Die Walküre! – Sweeney Todd! Are you a Puccini or Verdi fan? Or do you prefer Mozart or Wagner? Do you like your music a bit more modern, as from Stephen Sondheim or Iain Bell? In any case, […]
Music Students from the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig are featured in a Guest Artist Recital on Tuesday, September 30, 2014, at 5:30 p.m., at Duncan Recital Hall, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. The program will include music from Schubert, Schumann, and Shostakovich. The public is welcome, and […]
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 D. Parker, City of Houston and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy supporting efforts with […]
The Houston Liederkranz cordially invites you for a popular German get-together on Sunday, August 17, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. They promise you Music – Singing – Dancing – Fun as well as Herings-, Schinken-Salami-, and Kasesebroetchen (for non-German speakers, that is Kaiserrolls filled with hering, ham, salami or cheese). The bar is stocked with your […]
Do you remember the “night the world changed forever”? That’s what they say about November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, and brought together one-time enemies to change the course of modern history. But what happened on August 13, 1961, a date that caused decades of suffering and untold tragedy to […]
Dear Members and Friends of Houston-Leipzig, I just returned from Germany in time to remind you of our next monthly meeting this coming Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall of Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Boulevard. During the summer months, we all relax with our Houston-Leipzig at the Movies […]
