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Episode 203: Apollo Chamber Players
Posted on · The Apollo Chamber Players present music by Copland, Thomson, and a pair of world premieres from Allison Loggins-Hull and Mark Buller.
Category: Local Arts
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Galveston celebrates 50 years of Dickens on the Strand
Posted on · The annual Victorian-themed holiday street festival is this weekend.
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‘Voices from the Underground’ echo inside the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
Posted on · Musiqa co-founder Pierre Jalbert's world-premiere composition was created specifically for the unique underground space.
Encore Houston
Episode 202: MUSIQA
Posted on · MUSIQA presents music by Flannery Cunningham, Will Healy, Pierre Jalbert, and others.
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Tailgating at the Nutcracker Market and a Texans game have more in common than you’d think
Posted on · Houston Matters producer Celeste Schurman hangs out with tailgaters at both events and finds some similarities.
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Nationwide readings amplify teens’ voices on gun violence
Posted on · A national project held this month featured plays written by teens about gun violence.
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As SAG-AFTRA agreement is reached, it’s not just Hollywood actors who are relieved
Posted on · We discuss the deal and the impact of the months-long strike, with a SAG-AFTRA Houston-Austin Local member.
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Terence Blanchard brings “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” to Houston
Posted on · Da Camera hosts the jazz trumpeter and composer with a presentation of music from his latest opera.
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New music responds to an exhibition at the Moody Center for the Arts
Posted on · Composer Jaylin Vinson talks about writing music inspired by a thought-provoking exhibit.
Arts & Culture
A mobile concert venue provides music on the go
Posted on · Houston Matters learns all about The Concert Truck.
Encore Houston
Episode 201: Kinetic Ensemble
Posted on · Kinetic performs works by Nicky Sohn, Patrick Harlin, and Paul Novak.
Local
Annual Galveston sandcastle competition cancelled amid financial conflicts
Posted on · The cancellation of next year's sandcastle competition was announced last week, and the institute said Galveston's park board is interested in imposing fees on the crowd-drawing event.
Arts & Culture
World’s Biggest International Quilt Festival will take place this weekend
Posted on · This year’s festival will start on Thursday, Nov. 2 and run through the weekend with shopping booths, displays, classes, and lectures.
Arts & Culture
Waller art studio files civil rights lawsuit against city over its mural-regulating ordinance
Posted on · The small town northwest of Houston passed a mural-related ordinance in February, a few months after Tilt Vision Art began painting murals on commercial buildings in Waller. The new law led to the cancellation of the company's contract with a local real estate developer and violates their constitutional rights, the lawsuit alleges.
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A new opera celebrates two hidden figures of Civil War history
Posted on · Jake Heggie's opera Intelligence, premiering at Houston Grand Opera, dramatizes the stories of two women who acted as spies for the Union.