texas music festival

Musicians from the Texas Music Festival perform music by Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Musicians from the Texas Music Festival perform orchestral works by Higdon and Copland.

On this episode of Encore Houston, we go back to a 2011 performance from the Texas Music Festival, featuring a piece inspired by Tibetan Buddhism and a monster of a late Romantic symphony.

Music in this episode:

• CHRISTOPHER THEOFANDIS: Rainbow Body
• ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 in E major
  • Carl St. Clair, conductor
• Performance date: 6/25/2011
• Originally aired: 6/20/2020

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Musicians from the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival perform works by Dvořák and Rimsky-Korsakov.

In this episode of “Unwrap Your Candies Now,” Ernie Manouse talks with Jason Nodler and Tamarie Cooper, Co-Artistic Directors of Catastrophic Theatre, about Speeding Motocycle. First produced in 2006 to rave reviews, this original rock opera is based on the songs of legendary outsider artist-musician Daniel Johnston.

Catherine Lu chats with violist Brian Bires, First Place Winner of the 30^th Annual Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition at the Immanuel & Helan Olshan Texas Music Festival. A homegrown talent, Bires was raised in Friendswood, attended Clear Lake High School and earned his Master’s degree from the University of Houston Moores School of Music.

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Music used in Brian Bires’ segment: Viola Concerto in g minor by Cecil Forsyth (excerpts) performed by violist Brian Bires and pianist Shannon Hesse. Recorded at University of Houston by Texas Music Festival and Afshin Farzadfar.

The Texas Music Festival Orchestra puts on an epic performance of Mahler's Third Symphony.