Beethoven quartets have become a staple of the quartet repertoire since they were written almost 200 years ago. In their sixth season, the Carya String Quartet explores some of their favorites from Beethoven’s oeuvre while exploring the influences that Beethoven has had throughout the centuries. Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat Major Op. 18 No. 6 lays […]
Tonight's program includes works by Mozart, Schnittke, and Grieg. Bruce Hodges from The Strad magazine describes the ensemble as "a mix of soft elegance, joie de vivre and exquisite tuning - as gorgeous as any ensemble in recent memory." PROGRAM MOZART Quartet in […]
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Suite from Much Ado about Nothing Arnold Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a cinematographic scene, arr. Johannes Schöllhorn Hanns Eisler: Selected Ballads Kurt Weill: Seven Deadly Sins, arr. by HK Gruber and Christian Muthspiel Ensemble Modern; HK Gruber, conductor and chansonnier; Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano; amarcord, vocal ensemble In a rare U.S. performance, their first […]
ECHO's very first FREE community chamber concert at the park sponsored by CTIGO and The Energy Corridor District. Bring your picnics, blankets, and lawn chairs and enjoy an afternoon at the park with your family while enjoying a great classical concert, kids craft booth and artisan vendors by The Art Cellar of Houston, food trucks, […]
A Musical Journey....Celebrating Bengali New Year with Indrani Mukherjee. Indrani is an Internationally famed Hindustani Classical Vocalist. She is a Khayal and Thumri exponent, also specializing in Rabindra Sangeet, light classical and soulful bhajans
Beethoven quartets have become a staple of the quartet repertoire since they were written almost 200 years ago. In their sixth season, the Carya String Quartet explores some of their favorites from Beethoven’s oeuvre while exploring the influences that Beethoven has had throughout the centuries. Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat Major Op. 18 No. 6 lays […]
Members of the Bach Orchestra perform sonatas for violin and harpsichord at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
There will be hell to pay640 girls in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, 1,003 in Spain. As the servant Leporello famously sings in his “Catalogue aria,” the eponymous fiend in Mozart’s sublime tragicomedy Don Giovanni has already been very busy when he beds the engaged Anna and then kills her father in […]
There will be hell to pay640 girls in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, 1,003 in Spain. As the servant Leporello famously sings in his “Catalogue aria,” the eponymous fiend in Mozart’s sublime tragicomedy Don Giovanni has already been very busy when he beds the engaged Anna and then kills her father in […]
ROCO says goodbye to the old and in with the (relatively) new in this concert celebrating musical innovation via the string quartet. Lombardini Sirmen’s Quartet, a work that helped to shape the string quartet genre alongside those of Haydn and Boccherini, is an incredible example of a rare 18th-century woman who was not only able to live […]
A family-friendly classicA tale of resistance, courage, and joy The Sound of Music, whose story begins in the hills of Austria on the eve of the Nazis’ annexation, resonates as much today as during the musical’s 1959 premiere. Acclaimed director Francesca Zambello incorporates songs from both the theatrical version and its famous cinematic adaptation into […]
ROCO welcomes back conductor JoAnn Falletta, as the full 40-piece chamber orchestra shines in works of luminous orchestral color and creativity, including three premieres! Glimpse a vision of paradise in the third and final movement of Richard Danielpour’s Symphony in Three Movements After the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, experience the bold sounds of Conni Ellisor’s consortium-commissioned A Woman Without […]
