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The September events are POSTPONED due to complications from Hurricane IKE. Please check back for updated information, but join us in October for more Damaged Romanticism in Music.
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Damaged Romanticism: Joan Tower with Pianist Melvin Chen.
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In accordance with the Blaffer Gallery exhibition Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, the Mitchell Center will present several events featuring the work of Joan Tower, one of the nation's most original composers of modern music. Tower will join us in residence, with acclaimed piano soloist and chamber musician Melvin Chen.
Presented in conjunction with the Blaffer Gallery exhibition "Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion," which surveys a strand of contemporary art that puts emotions front and center, built on the knowledge that rebirth grows out of experiences of things gone horribly wrong.
Location: Dudley Recital Hall and Moores Opera House, University of Houston (Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd; Free parking in Lot 16)
Tickets and Information: 713-743-3313 |
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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PERFORMANCE
Chopin in Paris: Epigraph for a Condemned Book, Sarah Rothenberg
Saturday October 18
8:00 pm (7:00 pm Pre-concert talk by Richard Howard)
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Conceived, directed, and performed by Sarah Rothenberg, pianist and artistic director of Da Camera of Houston, Epigraph for a Condemned Book is a unique tapestry of sight and sound that reveals the daring genius of Chopin’s piano works. Rothenberg is the Mitchell Center's Fall 2008 artist-in-residence.
Pre-concert talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard.
Read the full story here.
Presented in conjunction with the Blaffer Gallery exhibition "Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion," which surveys a strand of contemporary art that puts emotions front and center, built on the knowledge that rebirth grows out of experiences of things gone horribly wrong.
Location: Cullen Theater, Wortham Center downtown (6th Floor)
Tickets and Information: Please call Da Camera of Houston at 713-524-5050
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Epigraph is a Da Camera of Houston production, co-commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven; University Musical Society, Ann Arbor; and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Champaign-Urbana.
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SCHOLARLY PANEL
Discussing Dickinson
Wednesday October 22
2:30 pm
A discussion led by University of Houston Professor Dorothy Baker with nationally recognized Emily Dickinson scholars Dr. Martha Nell Smith and Dr. Eliza Richards to discuss the life and work of American poet Emily Dickinson.
Location: The Honors College, University of Houston M.D. Anderson Library, Room 212
Free Admission
Information: Mitchell Center Hotline 713-743-5548
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READING
A Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Poets
Wednesday October 22
7:00 pm
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Organized by beloved outgoing University of Houston faculty member and celebrated poet Mark Doty, this evening will focus on contemporary poetry inspired by Emily Dickinson. Doty, as well as special guest poets Alice Fulton and Susan Howe, will read samples of their own works alongside poems by Dickinson.
Presented in conjunction with the commission and production of Ridge Theater's "Lightning at our feet," a multimedia song cycle created from the poems and letters of celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson. Location: The Rothko Chapel
FREE ADMISSION
Information: 713-524-9839 |
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MINI FESTIVAL
Bill Morrison: Collaborations with Michael Gordon
Friday October 24
8:00pm
& Saturday October 25
7:00 pm
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| Back-to-back evenings of film screenings by award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison, Ridge Theater member and co-creator of Lightning at our feet, featuring music by composer Michael Gordon. |
Included in the festival is Decasia: The State of Decay (2001), a new kind of documentary, with music composed by Michael Gordon, in which Morrison uses decomposing film stock as raw material and draws on the tension between the fact of film’s unstable surface and the fragile nature of what was once photographically represented. An artist talk with Morrison will follow the film program.
Presented in conjunction with Ridge Theater's "Lightning at our feet," a multimedia song cycle created from the poems and letters of celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson.
Location: Aurora Picture Show and Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Tickets and Information: Please contact Aurora Picture Show at 713-868-2102 and MFAH at 713-639-7300
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WORLD PREMIERE
Lightning at our feet, Michael Gordon and Ridge Theater
Wednesday October 29, Thursday October 30,
& Saturday November 1
8:00 pm
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The Mitchell Center presents the world premiere of Lightning at our feet, a multimedia song cycle created from the poems and letters of American poet Emily Dickinson that reunites composer Michael Gordon and New York’s Ridge Theater – the creative team behind the critically acclaimed Decasia (2001). Setting Dickinson’s poems to music and motion, Lightning at our feet straddles the genres of music, theater, and dance, encompassing its elements in a world of projections from filmmaker Bill Morrison and visual artist Laurie Olinder (Shelter, BAM 2005, Next Wave).
Click here to preview the music.
Join us for a post performance reception with the artists on October 29th!
Commissioned by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston for its world premiere performance, and by BAM for the 2008 Next Wave Festival.
Location: Wortham Theater, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center University of Houston (Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd; Free parking in Lot 16)
Admission: $15 general admission; $10 students and seniors
Tickets and Information: 713-743-2929 |
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MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Damaged Romanticism
Saturday November 8
8:00 pm (7:00 pm - Pre-concert conversation with Terrie Sultan, director of The Parrish Art Museum and organizer of Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, and Sarah Rothenberg, pianist and artistic director of Da Camera of Houston)
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An international all-star concert that incorporates projections of paintings and photographs to create a compelling dialogue between music and visual art, evocative of some of the most powerful art created in recent years.
Presented in conjunction with the Blaffer Gallery exhibition "Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion," which surveys a strand of contemporary art that puts emotions front and center, built on the knowledge that rebirth grows out of experiences of things gone horribly wrong.
Location: Moores Opera House, University of Houston (Entrance 16 off Cullen Blvd; plenty of reserved parking in Lot 16C)
Tickets and information: Please call Da Camera of Houston at 713-524-5050 |
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OPEN STUDIO
To Whom It May Concern, Emily Sloan
Friday November 21
6:30 pm (6:00pm Artist Talk)
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Emily Sloan, the Mitchell Center's Fall 2008 Lawndale Studio Residency recipient, presents environmental interventions that bring attention to the idea of making a place "special". Sloan says, "In a sense, it is even experienced by being ignored or going unnoticed."
Come see the sculpted and stenciled results of these interventions in the open lot of the 4900 block of Main street, next to the Lawndale Center.
Location:
Lawndale Art Center
FREE ADMISSION
Information: 713-528-5858
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IN CONVERSATION
Poetry and Music: A Conversation, with pianist Sarah Rothenberg and poet Adam Zagajewski
Friday November 21
7:00 pm
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Poet Adam Zagajewski and pianist Sarah Rothenberg present an evening of readings, performance and conversation inspired by the themes and ideas of the recent Blaffer Gallery exhibition, Damaged Romanticism.
Presented in conjunction with the Blaffer Gallery exhibition "Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion," which surveys a strand of contemporary art that puts emotions front and center, built on the knowledge that rebirth grows out of experiences of things gone horribly wrong.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
FREE ADMISSION
Information: 713-524-9839
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