This week several of our board members and a group of Bach aficionados led by Dr. Robert Moore will travel to Leipzig for Bachfest 2013, and on Thursday, June 13, our sister organization in Leipzig, the Staedtepartnerschaft Leipzig-Houston, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of our sister city relationship. We’ll post a report and pictures soon. […]
The Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association was founded in 1993 on the principles of President Eisenhower’s people-to-people citizen diplomacy initiative, which had at its core the idea that people who know each other do not wage war on each other. During the last twenty years, a myriad of citizens exchanged ideas, looked at each other’s workplace […]
Degenerate Art– “entartete Kunst” – declared so by the German Nazi government in the 1930s. Virtually all modern art was declared degenerate by the Nazi regime, and was banned because they deemed it to be un-German or Bolshevist. The artists in this exhibit of paper works were prohibited to create works under the expressionist styles. […]
The Texas Music Festival presents two concerts featuring soloist Jessica Findley, winner of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition. The first concert on Friday, June 14, 2013, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in the Woodlands at 8:00 p.m. is free. The second concert is on Saturday, June 15, 2013, Moores School of Music, […]
Join Texas Music Festival in celebration of its 24th season featuring classical music’s rising stars in performance throughout the month of June. Enjoy over 30 live performances by students from top schools including The Julliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, and more in collaboration with distinguished conductors and faculty artists from […]
Remember when you were a kid and Memorial Day weekend was the beginning of summer – a leisurely time that stretched ahead endlessly with promises of swimming and biking, lemonade and hot dogs, picnics in the park or in the backyard, smells of suntan lotion, sand between your toes, building real sandcastles and castles in […]
The Houston Liederkranz cordially invites you to their May Dance/Maitanz on Saturday, May 18, 2013, from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Liederkranz Hall, 5100 Ella Boulevard, Houston, TX 77019. Come and show your best dancing-with-the-stars form as you polka, waltz, and dance the night away. Night Session and Jaegermeister will play your favorite […]
For those of you who will be downtown at noon on Thursday, May 16, stop by the Houston Visitors Center in City Hall, 901 Bagby, for a Learn-at-Lunch series, featuring China: Explore Beijing Opera. Houston’s sister city from China is Shenzhen. The program is sponsored by the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau and the […]
The Consulate General of Germany and the Consulate General of Italy cordially invite you to the free screening of the movie Solino on May 15, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Rice Media Center on the Rice University Campus. Consul General Klaus-Jochen Guehlcke of Germany and Consul General Fabrizio Nava of Italy will introduce the […]
Update: Members of the Moores Concert Choral perform their Marktoberdorf music one last time in Houston on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, before jetting to Europe. Get more information and send your RSVPs here. The University of Houston’s Moores Concert Chorale is the university’s premiere large choral ensemble consisting of mainly junior and senior music majors. […]
