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Events on Friday, December 1, 2023

Friday, December 1, 2023

Friday, December 1 at 7:30 PM

7:30 PM
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WindSync's 15th Anniversary Season

How does a musical seed blossom into a living work for wind quintet? WindSync and composers Viet Cuong and Nicky Sohn will share insights into the creative process between writers and performers of music.

In addition to the Houston premieres of wind quintet movements by Cuong and Sohn, audiences will hear live demos of score excerpts in context, with influences as wide ranging as minimalism, electric guitar pedals, and jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker . Conversation between the artists to follow.

Audiences will be treated to an open beer and wine bar, as well as light bites, to celebrate WindSync's 15th Anniversary Season. VIP tickets include preferred seating and the newly released WindSync Signature Tote Bag.Read more

Friday, December 1, 2023 at 7:30 PM

7:30 PM
Matchbox 4

Purchase access to the VIDEO ON DEMAND now!

You know the tune! You know the season! Soon it’ll be time when all is merry and bright, and Houston Bronze Ensemble is eager to ring in the festivities with a joyous mix of familiar and new. For this December's MATCH holiday concert we welcome Pride Chorus Houston . In addition to singing tailor-made arrangements stitched up especially for this collaborative program, they’ll be singing familiar carols to inspire everyone to sing along. TOO . MUCH . FUN!

Whether you’re the bah humbug sort, or giddy gleeful for the glitz and glitter, or reverent for the nativity story, we’ve got you covered. So come! Let’s be jolly!Read more

Friday, December 1 at 8:00 PM

8:00 PM
Matchbox 3

WORLD PREMIERE: Created collaboratively by the Company, Adapted from the novella by Henry James, Directed by Afsaneh Aayani and Adam J. Thompson, Written by Bradley Michalakis

The Turn of the Screw is a new environmental and multimedia theatrical adaptation of the celebrated Gothic ghost story of the same name by Henry James. In Victorian England, a young governess journeys to the isolated country estate of Bly to caretake two orphaned children. In time, she begins to witness mysterious apparitions of human figures on the estate grounds and startling and troubling changes in the behaviors of her young charges.

The Turn of the Screw combines environmental staging, toy theatre, puppetry, live cinema, and a haunting soundscape into a meditation on the tipping point between the innocence of imagination and a nefarious refutation of reality.

Conceived and co-directed by Catastrophic core artist Afsaneh Aayani and New York City-based creative director and multimedia designer Adam J. Thompson , with book by dramatist and dramaturg Bradley Michalakis , this new The Turn of the Screw is an invitation to pull up a pub seat and share a drink as performers and guests collaborate to manifest one of the world's most celebrated and hotly contested ghost stories.

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