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HOUSTON PROGRAMS
Houston Fine Arts
Houston, the fourth largest city in the US, boasts world-class performing arts and outstanding museums. Sample the exceptional quality of the fine arts and cultural diversity, which make Houston a Mecca for the arts. Enjoy world-class performing arts venues in Houston, one of only five US cities with permanent opera, symphony, ballet and theatres in addition to outstanding museums and galleries. Upscale hotel (a 10-12 block-walk) to performances. Metrorail to museum district. Meals at the hotel and local restaurants to savor Houston’s diverse ethnic and multicultural cuisine. Three live performances included.
Experience the fine arts in Houston - with lectures, backstage field trips, rehearsals and performances at world-renowned performing arts centers and museums. Gain insights from performers and directors about their work. Explore the state-of-the-art Hobby Center, Houston’s newest performance hall; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the Menil Collection; Cy Twombly Gallery and Rothko Chapel. Savor Houston’s diverse cuisine and sample the city’s cultural diversity.
Houston, Mecca of the Arts: A Midsummer Night's Dream and World-Class Museums
#10927 Single Course/5 Nights
January 27-February 1, 2009
$779 Dbl + $271 Single Supplement
Program available for registration July 2008.
Join us in Houston for a dynamic, thought-provoking, fine arts program - Join us in Houston for a dynamic, thought-provoking, fine arts
program--lectures, docent-led and backstage tours, behind-the-scenes at
state-of-the-art performance halls and Houston Grand Opera's performance of
Benjamin Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Gain insights about opening-night preparations. Obtain a new appreciation for various orchestra instruments--how they combine to produce the magnificent music of the masters. Admire public art--Miro, Oldenburg and Adickes on a guided walk of downtown Houston. Docents enhance Houston's outstanding museums: the Contemporary Arts Museum, the Menil Collection and Museum of Fine Arts--American and European art and sculpture of all ages in addition to the Twombly Gallery, and Rothko Chapel.
Music of the American 20th Century, Evolution of the Art Song, and Art Museums of Houston
#17088 Single Course/5 Nights
February 17-22 , 2009
$790 Dbl + $271 Single Supplement
Program available for registration July 2008.
Focus on the music and lives of Barber, Menotti, Bernstein, and Copland. Through recordings, video presentations and discussion learn how the composers lives, careers and music making intertwined.
Trace the evolution of the art song while examining three songs from different periods of music history: Purcell's Dido's Lament (Baroque), Schubert's Erlkonig ( Romantic) and Britten's Dirge (Early Modern).
Survey, first-hand, the encyclopedic art collections of Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Menil Collection, Rothko Chapel, Twombly Gallery, Dan Flavin Installation, Contemporary Arts Museum.
Houston Symphony performance: Xian Zhang, conductor; Helene Grimaud, piano; Ravel: La Valse; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4; Bernstein: Three Dance episodes from On the Town; Falla: Suite from The Three-Cornered Hat. Program includes one morning session “Great Conductors Performing Great Composers”. Examine the conducting styles and temperaments of the great conductors. Hear music by Beethoven and others; discuss the musical interpretations by various conductors: Toscanini, Solti, Bernstein.
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Houston: Texas Hospitality with International Style
#17002 Single Course/5 Nights
March 15-20 , 2009
$835 Dbl + $271 Single Supplement
Program available for registration July 2008.
Survey Houston ’s history from the first capital of the Republic of Texas through its current status as energy capital of the world. At NASA’s Johnson Space Center , trace Houston ’s role in the design, development and testing of spacecraft for manned space flight. Delve into Houston ’s ethnic diversity at a neighborhood-based art and cultural organization. Enjoy discussions and a performance at the Ensemble Theatre, the oldest and largest professional African-American theater in the Southwest. At the Port of Houston , learn how this area has become the economic engine for Houston ’s global economy. Take an in-depth look at the logistics behind Minute Maid Park and learn how a performance comes together at a state-of-the-art performance hall.
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