Breaking Conventions

Adventurous art gets its day (and night): Musiqa honors FotoFest pioneers

By Joel Luks

05.11.13 | 1:29 pm

Every concert is an artistic escapade when it comes to the programs of classical music presenter Musiqa Houston. As such, it was fitting that its 11th anniversary social be titled "Passport to ...

Word Play

What If questions that haunt relationships: Who you ended up with becomes a Musiqa Sphinx

By Joel Luks

04.06.13 | 6:01 am

Oh, if cars could talk . . . Think about the teenage shenanigans. Think about the road trips. And think about the many personal conversations. Because whatever happens inside the car, stays in ...

Musiqa Gala "Passport to Adventure"

Gremillion & Co. Fine Art

05.02.13

Musiqa has combined percussion and wrestling, taken music out of this planet at Space Center Houston, journeyed with children "Around the World" and on a "ReMix" and won the 201

The Arthropologist

Can't sit still? The performance experience can be a magnificent or claustrophobic thing

By Nancy Wozny

02.03.13 | 10:29 am

It all started one dark, troubling day while I was sitting in one of those red velvet plush theater seats. The house lights dimmed, the doors closed, the blood pressure surged, the heart pounded an ...

Musiqa presents Deep Sky Objects

02.13.13 - 02.13.13

In collaboration with Space Center Houston, Musiqa presents Deep Sky Objects, a chamber work that will transport you to distant galaxies. Deep Sky Objects, an intergalactic romance set to musi

Adventurous Programming

Sweet Musiqa: Houston arts group wins a major national award

By Joel Luks

12.13.12 | 11:23 am

As institutional funding declines and government agencies' pockets deplete, performing and visual art nonprofit organizations that vie for every dollar are compelled to find ways to differentia ...

Musiqa, CAMH & Project Row Houses

New music in a different arena: A violent brawl that radically questions hyper-masculinity

By Joel Luks

12.11.12 | 3:30 pm

In my years of training to become a classical musician, I have attended a diverse gamut of performances at venues that range from traditional concert halls to grungy bars to alternative venues to e ...

Musiqa Loft Concert

Man enough? Artist becomes a boxer, a pro wrestler & a bull fighter to challenge machismo

By Joel Luks

12.07.12 | 5:29 pm

How would you feel if a guy who had just body slammed the shit out of another decided to strike a conversation with you? Good question, I thought. I wasn't sure. "Generally speakin ...

The Arthropologist

When paintings perform: Art becomes more and more theatrical — a little menace included

By Nancy Wozny

10.13.12 | 6:01 am

I pressed a button and a painting performed for me. Gregorio Vardanega's painting Espaces Chromatiques Carrées en Spirale, part of the Constructed Dialogues: Concrete, Geom ...

A Special Night

Jeremy Choate — the tragically killed lighting artist — honored in a holistic Musiqa concert

By Joel Luks

09.27.12 | 9:34 pm

Museum curators know what most classical music presenting groups do not: That when works of art are organized and displayed in an organized, pragmatic manner, one that offers context as viewers str ...