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 […]
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 […]
It is now time to make concrete plans to be in Leipzig on October 9, 2014, to participate in the 25th anniversary celebrations of the peaceful end of the confrontation between 70,000 demonstrators carrying nothing but candles, and the secret police in full military combat gear. October 9, 1989, was the decisive Monday. Surgeons had […]
If you are in Leipzig this week, why don’t you watch a movie in English – American Studies Leipzig presents The Public Enemy on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the American Studies Room GWZ 2.5.16. For more information, check out their website: http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/content/asl-film-screening-series-public-enemy-1931
Leipzig, October 8, 2013. As part of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the Staedtepartnerschaft Leipzig-Houston in 2013, the Leipzig association is presenting an exhibition of NASA Imagery entitled “Across all Borders – Über die Grenzen Hinaus.” The exhibit is in cooperation with the International Space Education Institute and will take place in the […]
Houston will welcome a cultural treasure from Leipzig, the Thomanerchor (St. Thomas Boys Choir), the only musical institution in Europe in continuous existence for over 800 years. Johann Sebastian Bach was once its director, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy worked with it, and Richard Wagner was a member. On Saturday, November 9 at 7:00 p.m. the choir will […]
Surely you must have heard of Die Prinzen – the first band out of Leipzig after German Unity that became enormously popular all over the country. Sebastian Krumbiegel was the founding member of the Prinzen, all former members of the St. Thomas Boys Choir. They soon became famous for their humorous, tongue-in-cheek critiques of German […]
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 […]
