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Sep 25, Oct 9, Oct 23,
Nov 13, Dec 4
Schubert: The Final Flowering
Clive Swansbourne
In this series, internationally
acclaimed English-born pianist, Clive Swansbourne, will perform powerful
works Schubert composed during the last six years of his life. From the age
of 25 to 31, Schubert enjoyed an astonishing creative surge. This five
part series will be a retrospective of these final compositions. Clive Swansbourne was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and
received his doctorate from The Yale School of Music. He has performed
throughout the United States and Europe and has appeared often on NPR and
the BBC.
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each concert
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: September 25th Recital FREE
Tickets $20 and $15 (students) for remaining recitals
Series tickets $80 and $60 (students)
October 3, 7:00 pm
The Gateless Gate: A Musical Exploration of Boundaries
Mukuru
Arts for AIDS
Featuring performances by pianist
Rodney Waters (Mukuru’s Artistic Director), pianist Adam Tendler (Artistic
Director of Foundation for Modern Music), soprano Melissa Givens, and
members of the Houston Symphony.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Free
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here to RSVP
October 10 & 11
An Evening of Native American Dance
Tewa Dancers from the North
Ten dancers from the Ohkay
Owingeh/San Juan Pueblo north of Santa Fe, will share their celebrative
dances with traditional drums and authentic dress. These performances will
give the audience a close-up view of the historically mysterious and
magnetic Pueblo culture and dance, as represented by a vibrant young
family. A question and answer period will follow. Following the dance
performance, the Chapel will host the Houston premiere of the recent
documentary “Dancing from the Heart,” that features the Tewa Dancers from
the North. In the film, Andrew Garcia talks about his efforts to maintain
Pueblo spiritual and cultural traditions while reconciling his heritage with
contemporary life. The film’s director and producer, Marilyn Hunt, a dance
expert in New York and Santa Fe, will moderate a conversation with the
dancers and the audience following the film.
Dates and Times: October 10-Performance at 7:00 pm, Documentary at
8:00 pm
October 11-Repeat performance at 1:00 pm
Location: Chapel Grounds
Admission: Free
October 17, 7:00 pm
Rothko on Rothko
Christopher Rothko
Mark Rothko’s son,
Christopher, will discuss his father’s philosophical and creative
genius. Currently, Christopher helps organize exhibitions of his father’s
work around the globe. He is the editor of The Artist’s Reality, a
book of his father’s philosophical writings.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Free
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October 19, 5:00 pm
For the Soul: Morton Feldman's Rothko Chapel and Other Selections
CANTARE Houston
CANTARE brings its unique choral
perspective to the Chapel. The Choir will perform a work by Morton Feldman
commissioned by Dominique de Menil in memory of their good friend Mark
Rothko. Also hear compositions by Palestrina, Holst, Vaughan Williams and
Ticheli, touching deep wells of spirituality and emotion. Blake Williams,
percussion; Laura Smith, harp.
Admission: Tickets are $25 and $20 for students. Tickets may
be purchased at
www.cantarehouston.org
Location: The Rothko Chapel
October 22, 7:00 pm
A Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Poets
Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Susan Howe
This evening, organized by
beloved outgoing University of Houston faculty member and celebrated poet
Mark Doty, will focus on contemporary poetry inspired by Emily Dickinson.
Doty, as well as special guest poets Alice Fulton and Susan Howe, will read
samples of their own works alongside poems by Dickinson. This program is
presented by the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the
Arts in conjunction with the upcoming performance of “Lightning at Our
Feet.”
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Free
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November 21, 7:00 pm
Damaged Romanticism
Adam Zagajewski and Sarah Rothenberg
Poet Adam Zagajewski and pianist Sarah
Rothenberg present an evening of readings, performance and conversation
inspired by the themes and ideas of the recent Blaffer Gallery exhibition,
“Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion.” This program is
presented by the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the
Arts.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Free
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December 9, 7:30 pm
Messiaen Centennial Concert: Visions de l'Amen
DaCamera of Houston
Olivier Messiaen’s great
religious piano cycle was first performed by the composer and his student
and future wife Yvonne Loriod in a semi-secret art gallery concert in
Nazi-occupied Paris. Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg, who studied the
music of Messiaen with Loriod in Paris, is joined by Marilyn Nonken, the
contemporary music virtuoso who made an outstanding Da Camera debut in
2007.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Tickets are available at
www.dacamera.com
December 13, 2:00 pm
Midwinter Carols
The Nathan
Clark George Trio
The all-acoustic Nathan Clark George Trio,
performing on guitar, mandolin, violin, and bass will offer a
seasonally-appropriate selection of Christmas music. Medieval to modern,
the trio’s carols reveal the beauty and meaning of Christmas and offer an
occasion for reflection and reverence at the height of the holiday season.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Free
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December 19, 7:00 pm
Season of Light
Trio Angelico
Just as Mark Rothko’s
Chapel paintings are full of light despite their dark hue, so too can the
darkness of winter be the occasion for a mystical encounter with the power
of light. This evening will be a celebration of light and will feature
Sonja Bruzauskas, Mezzo Soprano, Jennifer Keeney, flautist and Anita
Kruse, pianist. Known as Trio Angelico, these three will premiere a
composition by well known composer and pianist, Paul English who has
performed and recorded with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie, and Fathead
Newman. This program is presented by Divas World Productions.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Free
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The Music, Art and Culture series is partially funded
by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
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