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Date

Sunday, February 9, 2025 1:00PM

Description

Presented by the Hobby Center with Ars Lyrica Houston

This is a Relaxed and Sensory Inclusive Performance. Ars Lyrica's percussion and voice program offers a heightened sensory experience with support devices such as noise canceling headphones available.

Orígenes: Voice and percussion through the ages

Orígenes is a bilingual program curated by Mexican-born mezzo-soprano Cecelia Duarte and Spanish-born percussionist Jesús Pacheco. The program explores the development of voice and percussion instruments with a focus on Spanish and Latin American cultures. A group of singers and percussionists will perform impassioned music from the Renaissance to the present day, showcasing how voice and percussion developed through the ages. Featured instruments will include gongs, bells, vibraphone, and drums.

Audience members will learn how these instruments were used for communication, accompanying people through the everyday human experience: from festive celebrations to poignant moments of sorrow and drama. From the earliest forms of musical expression to contemporary soundscapes, Orígenes immerses students in a journey through time, revealing the diverse colors and textures of Spanish and Latin American musical heritage.

Headphones provided!

Ars Lyrica Houston specializes in music from the Baroque era, the “golden age” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as performed on period instruments with careful attention to historical style and context. Each season, this Grammy-nominated ensemble provides audiences with world-class performances of a wide range of dramatic, sacred, and chamber works. In addition to six mainstage concerts, Ars Lyrica reaches thousands of Houstonians annually with engaging, educational programs that demystify and share the beauty of classical music. Programs are presented in partnership with local schools and organizations, including the Rothko Chapel, Houston Airport System, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and more.

As always, this performance will offer the accommodations that the Hobby Center is commited to providing for all Relaxed and Sensory Inclusive Performances. 

Notes

All ticket holders will be communicated to prior to each performance with arrival protocols specific to their event.