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Calendar: Humble, Kingwood area events this week Jan. 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail An event honoring the Lake Houston Areas peace officers and firefighters will kick off at noon via Zoom on Tuesday, Jan. 26. This virtual luncheon salutes the everyday heroes that serve and protect our community. The event is called Honoring our Heroes: Peace Officer & Firefighter of the Year Lunch-In.STEFANIE THOMAS / The Observer JANUARY 14-23 KINGWOOD: The Kingwood High School Theater is kicking off their 202...

Livestream concert series from First Avenue in Minneapolis, 8 pm Sundays, 1/3-31. Donations.

Carolina A. Miranda with the official beginning-of-the year essential arts news: Peering into 2021 In recent days, I’ve been entertaining myself by reading the various predictions for 2020 published at the beginning of last year. Writers, scholars, critics and self-described futurists forecast the rise of “statement doorknobs,”hot pants and “smart” eyewear, as well as the decline of social media (LOL) and a growing political apathy among young people (ROFL). No one foresaw a global ...

“How to Listen,” the six-month weekly series that dived into so-called classical music, was not my idea. The suggestion that I rely on a lifetime of listening to guide readers who may be interested in expanding musical horizons through my selection of pieces seemed a reasonable enterprise, although I had no idea how I would go about it. I did, at first, resist titling it “How to Listen.” In the back of my mind was what Virgil Thomson liked to call the music appreciation racket. What I ...

Waxahatchee – ‘Saint Cloud’. Katie Crutchfield just gets better and better, changing themes, transforming, shining brighter, becoming brilliant. While far from country, it is an album in the grip of the genre, produced with warmth, texture and subtlety. ‘Lilacs’ uses a guitar sound reminiscent of Reggie Young on ‘Suspicious Minds’. ‘Can’t Do Much’, possibly the standout track, sounds like The Cranberries one moment and gentle Creedence in presence the next. Great voice, gr...

Here comes the sun — again. Alive to a radiant democratic spirit taking hold in Europe and alongside a new appreciation of the natural world, the 40-year-old Joseph Haydn composed six revolutionary string quartets in 1772. The Opus 20 quartets gave independence to the ensemble’s four individual voices, revealed the string quartet potential for uniquely intimate expression and surveyed the wider world as the irrepressibly sneaky Haydn slipped in hidden references to folk song and dance. Thei...

The final Monday of every month, we present Global Village at the Savannah Music Festival, our award-winning monthly concert series (First Place in the 2020 Kansas Association of Broadcasters Annual Awards in the Special Program category) showcasing top world music artists and groups who have appeared at the prestigious annual festival that takes place each spring in Savannah, Georgia. Throughout December Global Village has been featuring Portugal’s distinctive fado music. One of the major ...

A violin duet Michael Kimber composed in 1964 is having its world premiere Sunday and Monday, under the artistry of Miera Kim and son Oliver Bostian. Duet in G, written in the classical style of Mozart, will open “Holidays with Wolfgang,” part of Red Cedar Chamber Music’s Hearth & Home series. The free concert features Kim on violin, husband Carey Bostian on cello and their sons Oliver, 18, on violin and viola, and Adrian, 16, on cello and piano. It will livestream from the family’s Io...

Bang on a Can recital in the Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective Courtesy Mass MoCA. Photo: Elizabeth Berg The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams has announced that it plans to expand its artist-in-residency programme as visual and performing artists continue to face serious job and work space losses due to the coronavirus pandemic. The initiative is funded through a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and public and priv...

(3 out of 5 stars) "Ive been able so far to remain immune of the Gojilov disease - it hasnt struck Europe as hard as it has the Americas. This collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, dating back from 1996, is one of the events that made him hot stuff in town. Ive been listening to recordings of The Kronos Quartet - they were the early champions of those crossover experiences that had them either playing arrangements of Jazz (Thelonius Monk Monk Suite, Bill Evans Music of Bill Evans, Ornette Col...