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The Shepherd School of Music
Saturday, September 20
7:30pm - 9:30pm
A Symphonic Celebration

About the Event

Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Mason Bates: Mothership
Strauss: Don Juan
Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé 

Shostakovich’s vivacious Festive Overture provides an appropriately celebratory opening to Shepherd’s 50th anniversary year. Mason Bates’s Mothership fuses classical instrumentation with action-packed improvisatory solos, while Strauss’s wild and suggestive Don Juan demands dazzling virtuosity from every section. Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 culminates in a shimmering, ecstatic crescendo, one of the most breathtaking finales in the orchestral repertoire.

Tickets required, reserved seating
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Welcoming Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Our new director of orchestras is an Emmy Award-winning and GRAMMY®-nominated conductor who is the Music Director Laureate of the Fort Worth Symphony and former Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Harth-Bedoya has led major orchestras around the world and made his conducting debut with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra last fall.

Directions & Parking

West Lot 2 is the parking lot for all Shepherd School of Music events. Access this lot via campus entrance #18 off Rice Boulevard. 

Overflow parking is available in West Lot 3 or in the Central Campus Garage, located just east of the music school (underneath the Jones Graduate School of Business) near campus entrance #20 off Rice Boulevard.

Stude Concert Hall, Duncan Recital Hall, Hirsch Orchestra Rehearsal Hall, and Wortham Opera Theatre are located in Alice Pratt Brown Hall on the Rice University campus.  Alice Pratt Brown Hall is wheelchair accessible. Signs inside the campus near entrances 1, 2, 8, and 20 provide directions to all visitor parking.

Location

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

6100 Main St
Houston, TX 77005
United States