Apollo Chamber News Today

The Houston Astros and the Minnesota Twins will be playing under a closed Minute Maid Park roof for the first two ALDS games, the ballpark announced.

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate announces his 2023/2024 season, featuring commissions from the New York Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Turtle Island Quartet, and more. Don't miss his live performances and new album recordings.

Apollo Chamber Players will wrap up its 15th year anniversary with We Will Sing One Song at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 13 at Rice University’s Stude Hall.

On Thursday's show: We consider the state of Houston's immigration services, we learn about a controversial case involving a Texas Ranger, and the Apollo Chamber Players celebrate their 15th year by going back to the beginning.

Founder Matt Detrick looks back at the organization's very first concert

Internationally acclaimed composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, has been named Composer-in-Residence at the Oklahoma University School of Music for the spring 2023 season.

The Houston Chamber Choir will perform "A Time to Draw Closer," the season finale of the Grammy Award-winning ensembles 2020-21 virtual season, on May 9 under the direction of Founder and Artistic Director Bob Simpson. Of special note, the concert will include the world premiere of "The Passion of St. Cecilia," a work composed by Mark Buller and specially commissioned for the choirs 25th anniversary. The three-movement work relates to the legend of the patron saint of music and musicians. The ...

Classical Notes: The frozen aesthetic of John Luther Adams FacebookTwitterEmail 2of5 3of5 5of5 The deep of winter felt like an appropriate time for an immersion into the work of John Luther Adams, a 68-year-old composer whose aesthetic is tuned into the natural world, in particular the frozen landscapes of Alaska, where he lived for more than 30 years.  Adams won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his orchestral piece “Become Ocean,” which has just been released as part of a 3-CD set on the Canta...