SEPTEMBER 2002

Thursday, September 12   7:30 p.m.   Moores Opera House

COLLAGE 2002 - "Celebrate America" Opening concert of the 2002-2003 season

featuring the entire School of Music presented in Concert.

Free admission

Tuesday, September 17   7:30 p.m.   Dudley Recital Hall

Alumni Recital

ANDREW BROWNELL,*, piano

Free admission

Friday, September 27   7:30 p.m.   Moores Opera House

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Franz Anton Krager, conductor

Andrzej Grabiec, violinist

Bernstein: Overture to Candide

Peter Lieuwen: Violin Concerto (world premiere)

Barber: Essay No. 2, Op. 17

Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring

$10, $5 students/seniors

Reserved Seating

Sunday, September 29   3:00 p.m. Moores Opera House

ALECIA LAWYER, oboe and BLAKE WILKINS, percussion

Sunday, September 29 2:00 p.m.

New Kinkaid Theatre Inaugural Concert

Moores School Symphony Orchestra

New Kinkaid Theatre, Brown Auditorium, The Kinkaid School

Franz Anton Krager, conductor

Andrzej Grabiec, violinist

Alan Lowe, tenor (student at the Kinkaid School)

Bernstein: Overture to Candide and Maria from West Side Story

Peter Lieuwen: Violin Concerto

Barber: Essay No. 2, Op. 17

Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring

For tickets/information call: 713-243-5442

Monday, September 30     7:30 p.m.

AURA: CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE

Rob Smith, director

OCTOBER 2002           

Wednesday, October 2   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

JAZZ ORCHESTRA and JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Noe Marmolejo, director

Friday, October 4   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

International Piano Series and Texas Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation present the 2002 National Chopin Piano Competition winner

Amy Yang*, piano

$20, $10 students/seniors

Reserved Seating

Sunday, October 6   3:00 p.m. Moores Opera House

ROBIN HOUGH, oboe

with Timothy Hester, piano

"The Oboe Sings"

Premieres of works composed in memory of Miriam Strane by Michael Horvit, Robert Nelson, David Ashley White, and Carlisle Floyd plus works by Verdi and Ponchielli

Proceeds will benefit the Miriam Strane Scholarship Endowment

$10, $5 students/seniors

Friday, October 18     7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 19     7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 20     2:00 p.m.
Monday, October 21     7:30 p.m.

The Edythe Bates Old Moores Opera Center presents

The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach

How does YOUR love life compare to Hoffman's? First, you find out that the woman you adore is actually a robot. Then, you watch your next love sing herself to death. On the rebound, you take up with a renowned courtesan as decadent as the city that crumbles and sinks around her. And who are those mysterious men hovering in the background everywhere you turn? Hopefully, the closest experience to this you will get is watching our production of The Tales of Hoffmann. These three linked stories travel from Paris to Munich to Venice in a performance that will delight, terrify, and chill your very soul while you luxuriate in some of the most tuneful music ever composed.

 
Buck Ross, producer/director

Peter Jacoby, music director

$10, $5 students/seniors

Reserved Seating

Thursday, October 24   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Franz Anton Krager, conductor

Student Conductors

Joseph Evans, tenor

Winner, 2002 Moores School Concerto Competition, TBA

Nelson: Elegy: The Finest School (world premiere)

Friday, October 25   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

CONCERT CHORALE, CONCERT WOMEN'S CHORUS, & UNIVERSITY MEN'S and WOMEN'S CHORUSES

"Celebrate America": Music by American Composers

Betsy Cook Weber, Tammy Patterson, and Ronnie Sanders, conductors

Sunday, October 27   3:00 p.m. Moores Opera House

INAUGURAL CONCERT

MOORES SCHOOL CHORAL ARTISTS

Charles Hausmann, conductor

Monday, October 28   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

Blake Wilkins, director

Tuesday, October 29   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

LAWRENCE WHEELER, viola

with Zoya Shuhatovich*, piano and William VerMeulen*, French horn

Thursday, October 31   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

COLLEGIUM MUSICUM with ARS LYRICA HOUSTON* and THE HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR*

Matthew Dirst, conductor

Robert Simpson*, conductor

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas

Handel: Dixit Dominus

$10, $5 students/seniors

NOVEMBER 2002           

Sunday, November 3   3:00 p.m. Moores Opera House

JOSEPH EVANS, tenor

Art Songs and Arias

Monday, November 4   7:00 p.m. Moores Opera House

12TH ANNUAL CHORAL INVITATIONAL

Concert Chorale and Area High Schools

Betsy Cook Weber, coordinator

Free admission

Monday, November 11   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

AURA: CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE

Rob Smith, director

AURA IN WONDERLAND featuring David Del Tredici's "Haddocks' Eyes",

based on texts from "Alice in Wonderland"

Wednesday, November 13   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

JAZZ ORCHESTRA and JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Noe Marmolejo, director

Sunday, November 17   3:00 p.m. Moores Opera House

RUTH TOMFORHDE, piano and TIMOTHY HESTER, piano

Mozart: Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, K. 448

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn for Two Pianos, Op. 56b

Fauré: Dolly Suite for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 56

Rachmaninoff: Suite in G Minor for Two Pianos, Op. 17

Tuesday, November 19   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

CHORAL ARTISTS

Charles Hausmann, conductor

CONCERT CHORALE

Betsy Cook Weber, conductor

CONCERT WOMEN'S CHORUS

Tammy Patterson, conductor

"The A Capella Tradition"

Friday, November 22   8:00 p.m. Moores Opera House

HOUSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA*

"Mozart & More - Mozart and Salieri"

Hans Graf, conductor

Scott Holshouser, piano

Alexandre Kravets, tenor

Mikhail Svetlov, bass

Works by Mozart, Salieri, and Rimsky-Korsakov

For tickets/information: 713-224-7575

Reserved Seating

Sunday, November 24   3:00 p.m. Moores Opera House

NANCY WEEMS, piano

Works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Bartok, Prokofiev, and Corigliano

Monday, November 25   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

JAZZ INVITATIONAL

Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, and Area High Schools

Noe Marmolejo, director

Free Admission

DECEMBER 2002           

Tuesday, December 3   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

SYDNEY R. CARLSON, flute. With Robin Hough, oboe; Jeff Robinson, bassoon; Timothy Hester, piano; Randall Griffin, clarinet; Bonnie Jacobi, piano; and David Tomatz, cello

Works by Villa Lobos, Cowell, Juon, and Rawsthorne

Friday, December 6   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Paul Freeman*, guest conductor

Dvorak: Three Slavonic Dances

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

$10, $5 students/seniors

Reserved Seating

Sunday, December 8   3:00 p.m. Moores Opera House

A HOLIDAY FESTIVAL

Moores School Choral and Instrumental Ensembles

Free Admission

Sunday, December 8   7:30 p.m. Moores Opera House

WIND ENSEMBLES I & II

Tom Bennett, David Bertman, directors

Saturday, December 21     7:30 p.m. St. Paul's United Methodist Church

HOUSTON BOYCHOIR WINTER CONCERT

5501 South Main Street

Free admission

Saturday, December 14     2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 15     1:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 21     2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 22     1:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m.

REVELS HOUSTON  Moores Opera House

A Celtic Celebration of the Winter Solstice

For tickets/information: 713-668-3303

Reserved Seating

* Guest

Unless otherwise noted ticket prices are $6 - General, $5 - University, $4 Seniors & Students (with ID)