French Baroque Music Festival

February 16, 2007: “Pygmalion” by Mercury Baroque

Sponsorship by TFAA and its presenting partners the Levant Foundation and the Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston

 

Mercury Baroque will present the fully staged opera-ballet Pygmalion by J.P. Rameau and a suite from Les Indes Galantes on Friday, Feb. 16, 2007 at 8 p.m. at the Wortham Center, Cullen Theater, sponsored in part by The Texan-French Alliance for the Arts.

 

 

February 18, 2007: Ars Lyrica‘s “Portraits d’amour” at the MFAH

Sponsorship by TFAA and its presenting partners the Levant Foundation and the Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston

 

In Ars Lyrica’s “Portraits d’amour,” the group collaborated with Musiqa, Houston’s hip ensemble for new music, with works on the perennial subject of love from a wide sampling of French composers, including Couperin, Messiaen, Ravel, and Clérambault.

The family concert took place at 4 pm Sunday, February 18 in the Brown Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. It featured Karol Bennett, soprano; Rod Waters, piano; Colin St. Martin, Baroque flute; Barrett Sills, viola da gamba; and Richard Savino, theorbo and Baroque guitar.

 

“Take a Walk on the Art Side”

Sponspored by the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts and PaperCity Magazine

 

 

A cocktail reception for the cultural community in Houston at the Barbara Davis Complex

Live music by David Caceres Trio

Self-guided “Art Walk”

Barbara Davis Gallery                  Robert Kelly

Peel Gallery                                    Begoña Lopez: Pixel Plexi

Anya Tish Gallery                         Lalla Essaydi: Converging Territories

Joan Wich Gallery                        Lynn Randolph: Magic Coast

Wade Wilson Art                          New paintings by Tom Berg, Alan Ebnother,
Danielle Frankenthal, Joseph Marioni,
Jill Moser, Shawn Wallis

Tart Café & Wade Wilson Art    Sam Gainer