Music Director Juraj Valcuha (photo by Luciano Romano) and bassoonist Rian Craypo

THE POWER OF music lies in its capacity to provoke extreme reactions in a listening audience. Which is a polite way of describing what composer Philip Glass repeatedly endured early in his career, when audiences threw tomatoes at him and his musicians.

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EXCITING NEWS FOR Houston coffee lovers! North Carolina-based Bitty & Beau’s Coffee is opening its first coffee shop in Houston this weekend. The “radically inclusive roastery” celebrates this milestone with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 14, at 10am, at 2367 Rice Boulevard.

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The Parker Quartet (photo by Beowulf Sheehan)

FANS OF GREAT classical music are in for a treat this Friday, when DACAMERA presents the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet Jan. 13 at Hobby Center for the Performing Arts’ Zilkha Hall.

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