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The Houston Chamber Choir will perform "A Time to Draw Closer" on May 9. Apollo Chamber Players will join the Choir for this performance. The concert will include the world premiere of a work by noted Houston composer Mark Buller to celebrate the choir's 25th anniversary.The three-movement work relates to the legend of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music and musicians.
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Houston Chamber Choir's “A Time to Journey Inward” will look into the business of being alone with the help of some wonderful music and the insights of noted author, lecturer and psychotherapist, Patti Henry. The concert is available online starting Sunday.
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The woodwind, brass, and percussion sections of the Houston Symphony take center stage in a unique Bank of America POPS program spotlighting some of the greatest wind ensemble compositions of our time, including music of John Williams and Principal POPS Conductor Steven Reineke. Musical Storytellers: Winds of the Houston Symphony takes place Friday through Sunday at Jones Hall.
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ROCO presents an intimate, livestreamed performance titled My Journey to America, named after the world premiere quintet composed by Afghan composer Milad Yousufi and co-commissioned by the Winsor Music Consortium. My Journey to America is a suite of five short movements, each preceded by a spoken narrative by Yousufi, describing his journey from his dramatic birth story in Kabul, Afghanistan to becoming a refugee in New York City. The concert takes place at 7 p.m. at Holocaust Museum Houston.
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Houston Symphony's Music Illustrated: Virtual Reality in Concert, taking place on February 13 and 14, will push the threshold of the listening experience to the next level in a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind event featuring Google’s amazing virtual reality technology. As the orchestra performs favorites like "Clair de Lune" and "Carnival of the Animals", artist Topher Sipes will dream up mesmerizing, life-sized art that responds to the music in real time and takes on a life of its own.
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ROCO’s first concert in Black History Month will be an exploration of one of music's most storied Black women. Celebration of Margaret Bonds, featuring a wide cross section of the musician's work, will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, streamed live from Rienzi, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s historic house museum for European decorative arts.
