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To request a 2010-11 season brochure, please contact our office at 713.348.5400 or at friends@rice.edu.
Click here for
Season 2010-11 Schedule
Single Tickets for subscribers will be available beginning July1st.
Single Tickets
go on Sale to the General Public on August 1st!
Go to www.HoustonFriendsofChamber Music.Org
for more information.
Ticket Prices
$19-$72
Discounts for Seniors(65+) and full-time students with valid ID.
A 15% Group Discount is also available for groups of 10 or more, subject to availability. Group tickets must be purchased in advance.
Program information, biographies, directions, seating, and ticket info available at our website:
www.HoustonFriendsofChamber Music.Org
PLEASE DONATE TICKETS YOU ARE UNABLE TO USE:
If you are donating your tickets for a concert, you may leave a message
at our office phone,
713.348.5400. On the evening of the concert, 6:30-7:30 p.m., you
may call the box office to donate the tickets: 713.348.5363.
If you donate tickets you will receive
a receipt for tax purposes.
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Houston Friends of Chamber Music is funded in part by the City of Houston through the
Houston Arts Alliance.
Thank You to All Our
Supporters And Friends.
Please forward this newsletter to other lovers of chamber music and ask them to contact us to join our mailing list.
Performances
Houston Friends of Chamber Music concerts are presented in the acoustically superb and visually beautiful Stude Hall in the Shepherd School at Rice University. The opening concert of the 2010-2011 Season with the Tokyo String Quartet will begin 7:30 PM, to allow time for the Golden Celebration Cocktail Buffet after the concert. All other concerts will begin at 8:00 PM.
Box Office: Opens at 7:00 p.m. the day of the concert
Parking
Parking is conveniently located directly in front of Stude Hall. Best entrances for Stude Hall are: Entrance #18 (Rice Blvd.)
Entrance #8 (University Blvd.).
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| Dear Friend of Houston Friends of Chamber Music, |
Golden Celebration
Houston Friends of Chamber Music is gearing up for it's 50th
Anniversary Season with plans for a Golden Celebration Reception to follow the
Opening Night Concert of the renowned Tokyo String Quartet. The concert, (which will begin at 7:30 pm this night) will be followed by a
Cocktail Buffet at the beautiful Cohen House.
The Cohen House is located close to Stude Hall on the Rice Campus. The musicians, including guest cellist
Desmond Hoebig, will be at the party to visit with the guests.
Invitations will be mailed in early August. Please mark your calendar and plan to join us
in celebrating a successful 50 years of bringing the world's finest chamber
music ensembles to Houston. All proceeds
from this event will benefit HFCM's educational outreach programs.
For more information and to make sure you are on the mailing list,
please contact our Executive Director, Bonnie Moore, at 713-348-5400 or
friends@rice.edu.
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Classical Music's Gold Recordings
In the
record/CD business, selling one million copies gives the artist a "gold" record. In the spirit of HFCM's golden celebration,
we decided to ask: What are the greatest selling classical music pieces of all
time?
When Norman
Lebrecht was researching his book, Life
& Death of Classical Music, he did a lot of number crunching on this
question. Some interesting observations
include: Only about
25 classical recordings have gone over the one million mark in sales The first
to do so was a 1903 recording of Enrico Caruso The 1959
Georg Solti recording of Wagner's Ring is "credited with converting more middle
class homes to stereo than any other record." Herbert von
Karajan is the superstar of classical record sales - with about 200
million -- not too far from Madonna's
260 million (but well short of the billion plus in sales by the Beatles and
Elvis Presley).
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Recent
HFCM Educational Outreach Activities
HFCM frequently sponsors educational outreach
activities centered on chamber music.
Recent
events include a master class held at Rice University's Shepherd School in
March 2010 by the Artemis Quartet. About
a dozen students performed for the Artemis and received critiques from Artemis
members, while about 50 students, faculty and others observed. Afterwards, one student said that he had
been a part of numerous master classes around the country, and found this one
to be among the most intense and rewarding he had experienced.
Also last
March, HFCM sponsored a half-day residency with the Kolonneh String Quartet at
Klein Forest High School and Wunderlich Intermediate School. The Kolonneh String Quartet is based at Sam
Houston State University. The approach
used in this event was "informances" - a mix of performance along with
information presented about the composers, the specific works, the instruments,
and the nature of the string quartet as a genre.
Other HFCM
Outreach Activities have included 46 presentations to local high schools by
HFCM Executive Director, Bonnie Moore, discussing chamber music in general, as
well as the HFCM organization in particular.
Bonnie also mentors and works with the groups JUMP and
WindSync.
Finally,
HFCM participates in a student voucher program, making it easier for students
from 95 schools in the Houston area to attend HFCM concerts. Additionally, every year hundreds of free
tickets to HFCM concerts are made available to Rice faculty, staff, and
students.
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