Houston Ballet's From Houston to the World, Sept. 18-28, offers three ballets created right here in the Bayou City, but there's much more to the program than that fact.
Beginning in 1852 and continuing for more than two decades, the French emperor Napoleon III, along with his apparatchik—Baron Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine—embarked on a massive public works program to regularize and sanitize the medieval agglomeration that was Paris.
Juilliard-trained oboist Alecia Lawyer still admits to feeling amazement whenever she sees a real estate website citing River Oaks Chamber Orchestra—a.k.a. ROCO—as another great reason to relocate to Houston.
Opening the Chamber Music Houston Season for the second year in a row, The Miró Quartet brings the world premiere season of Gunther Schuller’s Quartet No. 5, on Sept. 16 at the Stude Concert Hall, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.
For three months this fall, Houston Arts Alliance, local artists and community partners call attention to Houston’s “love affair” with movement, transformation and reinvention through Transported + Renewed, a mix of community-based and contemporary art projects through the city’s East End.
