Mercury Orchestra Blasts Off, with Fun Retro-Space-Age Gala and Supporters Like Lynn Wyatt

Jeff Gremillion

ONE OF HOUSTON'S most prestigious performing arts organizations, the Mercury orchestra, threw a fabulous “Retro-Futuristic” gala at the Post Oak Hotel, complete with a space-themed musical presentation and a top-tier guest list including Lynn Wyatt.

Using Old Photos, Knickknacks and Other Found Objects, Artist Transforms Gallery Into Space 'to Remember'

Chris Becker

“I’M INTERESTED IN the things left behind,” explains found-object and performance-based installation artist Viktor Givens, whose lovingly crafted installation Coffee/Kool Aid and the Tabernacle of (Re)Memory is on view through April 23 at Community Artists’ Collective.

HOUSTON’S NEWEST LUXURY aesthetics bar is now open on Westheimer at Uptown Plaza (4719 Westheimer Road). This marks the first Texas location for the noninvasive spa.

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ON FRIDAY, JAN. 27 at MATCH, Houston new-music ensemble Aperio, Music of the Americas, now in its 17th season, returns to the Latin American-rooted programming of its early years with “Hot Buttered Rumba,” a selection of chamber music by Miguel del Aguila, John Mackey, Argentinean tango and bandoneon master Astor Piazzolla, and Robert X. Rodriguez — four composers who draw inspiration from North, Central and South American rhythms and folk music. With no percussionist onstage, it’s up to Aperio artistic director and pianist Michael Zuraw and eight guest instrumentalists to infuse the music with the energy and drama found in grooves and musical styles born outside of the concert hall, without sacrificing the attention to detail and technique required when playing Western classical repertoire.

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