Ars Lyrica Houston 2021/2022 Season
Cuándo:
March 27, 2022
Dónde:
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts 800 Bagby Street, Houston, TX
Sobre el evento:
Event Producer:
Ars Lyrica Houston
Kinga Ferguson, Executive Director
4807 San Felipe Suite 202; Houston, TX 77056
(713) 622-7443
Music: Classical
Activities: Concert season
Ars Lyrica Houston specializes in music from the Baroque era, the “golden age” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as performed on period instruments with careful attention to historical style and context. Founded in Houston in 1998 by harpsichordist and conductor Matthew Dirst, this Grammy-nominated ensemble provides audiences with world-class performances of a wide range of dramatic, sacred, and chamber works. An Uncommon Chevalier This program transports us to a lively Parisian concert hall in the mid 1780s, just before the Revolution changed everything. An accomplished composer, violinist, conductor, fencer, and dancer, Joseph de Bologne became the toast of Paris in the early 1770s. The son of a plantation owner and an African slave, the younger mixed-race Bologne acquired the title Chevalier de Saint-Georges thanks to Louis XV, in whose personal guard he briefly served, and eventually became a favorite of Marie Antoinette. The program features a tuneful violin concerto from Saint-Georges, a comparable work from a contemporary, and a symphony commissioned by the Chevalier. This event is part of the French Cultures Festival coordinated by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston.
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