Mark Wood Electrify Your Strings Spring Concert

05.25.13

Mark Wood, a founding member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, will perform with his electronic strings band, Electrify Your Strings. The group includes his wife, rock vocalist Laura Kaye, and their

Calendar Closeup

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

By Joel Luks

05.14.13 | 12:10 pm

On tap this week are Hans Graf's last performance as Houston Symphony's music director, a history boat tour, an artsy evening that raises awareness for breast cancer prevention, dance on wa ...

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 ...

Houston Symphony ExxonMobil Summer Nights

Miller Outdoor Theatre

06.22.13 - 06.29.13

Join Houston Symphony as it kicks off its Centennial Season with this traditional summer concert series featuring outstanding artists and conductors. This is a ticketed event for the covered se

Aperio, Music of the Americas presents "Across Oceans - Vocal, Solo, and Chamber Music by Thomas Osborne"

Asia Society Texas Center

06.01.13

Aperio, Music of the Americas presents "Across Oceans," a program that features vocal, solo and chamber music composed by Thomas Osborne. Inspired by influences drawn from ancient Japanes

The Review is In

Sarah Rothenberg unravels darkness of human psyche in love-obsessed multimedia spectacle

By Joel Luks

05.06.13 | 1:46 pm

Consider the binary qualities of the symbol of a window. Peer outside and it acts as a portal for a world that's within reach, yet somehow untouchable. Peep inside and you become a voyeur, a st ...

American Festival for the Arts' Chamber Music Academy Spring Recital

05.18.13

This concert features performances by young musicians who participated in the Spring Chamber Music Academy, an American Festival for the Arts program presented in collaboration with DaCamera of Hou

Are you sane enough?

Inside the mind of an obsessed lover: Da Camera's multimedia world premiere is an art orgasm

By Joel Luks

05.03.13 | 11:16 am

It wasn't one of the finest moments in my life. But surely it was a defining one — and I'm certain you've gone through it, too. An obsession with unrequited love. You know ...

Houston Chamber Choir presents Mozart's Great Mass in C minor

05.18.13

Mozart's Great Mass in C minor stands with the famous Requiem as two of the crowning achievements in Mozart's choral repertoire. Like Requiem, it remained unfinished at the time of his deat

The CultureMap Interview

Moving on from Emerson: Renowned cellist retiring with a Houston goodbye

By Joel Luks

04.29.13 | 10:44 am

When the Emerson String Quartet announced its first personnel change in 34 years of being a dominant player in the chamber music scene, die-hard junkies of the genre stopped breathing — for a ...