Foundation for Modern Music's Premiere Concert Series

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

03.30.13

Continuing its mission of bringing Houston exciting and interesting programs, Foundation for Modern Music's Premiere Concert Series will feature two world premieres.  Australian compos

Foundation for Modern Music presents "Music for Peace: Shouts, Cries, Prayers"

Rothko Chapel

02.08.13

The search for peace takes on many forms. A few brave souls protest individually at great risk to themselves for the end of war, oppression, hate and injustice. When voices join they gather strengt

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Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events, including a Santa Hustle

By Joel Luks

12.20.12 | 10:45 am

Will the end of the world arrive before Christmas? Time, little more than one day to be exact, will tell. Whether you are a believer in apocalyptic prophecies or not, it behooves everyone to e ...

Foundation for Modern Music

A composer's legacy lives on: Robert Avalon new music competition hosts winners concert

By Joel Luks

05.19.12 | 6:40 am

Had composer Robert Avalon lived to witness the first contemporary classical music composition competition that he started to organize back in 2004, he would been thrilled at the outcome. Had he li ...

Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers Concert

05.19.12

After a modest beginning the competition has evolved to become an important event in modern music and Houston's most important modern music event of the year. Today, the competition attracts en

Foundation for Modern Music Premiere

Akhenaten soars with Mohammed Fairouz's throbbing grooves & distinct cultural interpretation

By Joel Luks

03.31.12 | 8:00 am

If Superman soared east past Michael Daugherty's Oh, Lois! from his Metropolis Symphony, he would surely find himself in the musical world of Mohammed Fairouz's Akhenate ...

Foundation for Modern Music Commission

Beyond poems and prayers: Mohammed Fairouz's Akhenaten celebrates young people affecting change and paying the price for it

By Joel Luks

03.15.12 | 1:07 pm

Counterpoint is the musical idiom of a plural, global society. Unlike modulations, inversions, augmentations and retrograde manipulations, each line of the polyphonic texture safeguards its individ ...

Pick Five (Plus)

Your weekly guide to Houston: Mardi Gras balls, a French valentine, Dream Out Loud fundraiser and a dance orgy

By Joel Luks

02.16.12 | 12:30 pm

Buyse rhymes with spicy. That's how Shepherd School of Music flute professor Leone Buyse first introduced herself to me years before I would become her pupil. That same vivacious spirit ca ...

Foundation for Modern Music presents Works by Arab-American Composer Mohammed Fairouz

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

03.17.12

The concert, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Egypt and the Egyptian American Society, will feature a world premiere scored for piano, cello and orchestra based on the story

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Your weekly guide to Houston: Spanish carols, a French icon and a winter (solstice) wonderland

By Joel Luks

12.14.11 | 6:30 am

If there's such a thing as too much talent, it would resemble the Glassell School of Art studio sale over the weekend. Think of wall after wall filled with paintings, prints, mixed media and ph ...