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Review: Don Carlos

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What does a choir of red crosses, pyrotechnics, and a wooden cart carrying chained heretics make? In Houston Grand Opera’s version of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos, it’s the turning point from a mediocre opera to a memorable one. Don [...]
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WindSync: Savvy, Smarts, & Sass

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There’s nary a music stand in sight when woodwind quintet, WindSync, swaggers street-gang-style to tunes from Bernstein’s West Side Story or adorably masks as woodland denizens for a whimsical rendition of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf [...]
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Song in the Key of Life

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Turtle Creek Chorale Moves Forward with Positive Attitude After a year as the interim director of the Turtle Creek Chorale, Trey Jacobs accepted the position of artistic director. Founded in 1980, the Morton Meyerson Symphony Center is home for the 225-member men’s chorus [...]
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Review: La Resurrezione

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After hearing Ars Lyrica’s rendition of Handel’s oratorio “La Resurrezione,” one must wonder why this little-known work about the story of Jesus’ resurrection is not performed more often. With gifted musicians on period instruments [...]
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Review: Debussy’s Paris

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Long known for its inventive and contextualized programs, Da Camera Houston did what it does best with its recent presentation of “Debussy’s Paris.” “Lisle Joyeuse,” the Debussy favorite for solo piano was paired with the Sonata [...]
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Review: Il Trovatore

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With hidden identities, passionate love, and a gypsy’s vicious revenge, it is no wonder that Verdi’s dramatic “Il Trovatore” remains so popular. It’s a task to add passion to this already effusive opera, but this is precisely [...]
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New Notes: Composers in Houston

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Anthony Brandt thinks Houston is a composer’s city. Brandt, a professor of composition at Rice Uni­versity’s Shepherd School of Music and Artistic Director of Musiqa, a collec­tive of five composers, knows what he is talking about. [...]
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