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 Ballet Principal Jessica Collado as Alma and artists of Houston Ballet in Cathy Marston’s Summer and Smoke (Photo by Amitava Sarkar)

THIS WEEKEND, THE Houston Ballet returns with Summer and Smoke, a triple bill that, like much of the recent programming by the Houston Symphony, is a stimulating blend of past, present, and future.

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AS AN ART form, Western composition in the 21st century isn’t all that different from what it was when Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven somehow, without the aid of computers and social media, managed to harness the forces necessary to get what they heard in their head to the ears of a (hopefully) appreciative audience.

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