CONCERT ARCHIVE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7
DUO DRAMATIQUE:
“SHADOWS OF WAR, WHISPERS OF LOVE”
MUSIC BY: Leoš janaček, Clara Schumann, Edward Elgar, Jessie Montgomery
2025/2026:
SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 4PM
THE POLISH DUO:
“ECHOES OF THE LOST WORLD”
MUSIC BY ELGAR, BRAHMS AND RICHTER
SUNDAY, MAY 11, 6PM
THE POLISH DUO:
“LOVE AND LEGACY. A MOTHER'S DAY CONCERT”
MUSIC BY DVORAK, FIBICH, WIENIAWSKI, CHOPIN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
THE POLISH DUO
"MYTHS, FABLES AND FAIRY TALES"
UNFORGETTABLE CONCERT BY THE PASSIONATE POLISH DUO, WHERE THE ICONIC "MYTHS" BY KAROL SZYMANOWSKI MEETS THE RAPTUROUS VIOLIN SONATA BY IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI
DOMINIKA DANCEWICZ, VIOLIN
ALINA KLIMASZEWSKA, PIANO
HOUSTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY, BELIN CHAPEL
7502 FONDREN RD
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18
DUO DRAMATIQUE
“THE MUSEUM OF LOST LOVE”
A RIVETING EVENING OF STORIES AND MUSIC. THE IDEA FOR THIS CONCERT IS BASED ON THE 2019 BOOK BY GARY BARKER "THE MUSEUM OF LOST LOVE", FEATURING THE ACTUAL EXISTING MUSEUM IN ZAGREB, CROATIA, ESTABLISHED IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 1990s WAR IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA.
THIS SPECIAL CONCERT FEATURED MUSIC BY YUGOSLAV AND BALKAN COMPOSERS, AS WE EXPLORE THEMES OF IMPERMANENCE OF LOVE AND PRECARIOUSNESS OF HAPPINESS.
THIS CONCERT IS SPONSORED IN PART BY THE CITY OF HOUSTON THROUGH THE HOUSTON ARTS ALLIANCE "LET CREATIVITY HAPPEN" GRANT.
Music by: Teodora žebeljan, Marko Tajcevič, Dora pejačević, VITEŽSLAVA KAPRÁLOVA
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS
CULLEN HALL
4001 MT VERNON, 77006
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 7PM
DUO DRAMATIQUE
“TWISTS OF FATE: FROM FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPT TO FORGOTTEN VIRTUOSO"
THIS EXCITING RECITAL FEATURES TWO GIGANTIC LANDMARKS OF THE VIOLIN-PIANO REPERTOIRE:
THE ICONIC, MUSCULAR "KREUTZER SONATA" BY LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, AND THE GRAND SONATA IN F MAJOR (1838) BY FELIX MENDELSSOHN, NEVER PUBLISHED DURING THE COMPOSER'S LIFE UNTIL NEARLY 120 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH. WE WILL ALSO PERFORM THE ELUSIVE "NOCTURNE" BY LILI BOULANGER.
THIS CONCERT IS A PART OF MUSIC AT THE MEETING HOUSE CONCERT SERIES AT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH