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Contains 511 Results:
Timber for Menilfest, 2015-04-18
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 913
Identifier: 80.6.913
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Experience the inspirational and contemplative sound meditation of Michael Gordon’s Timber in the Rothko Chapel. Performed by six percussionists on amplified 2x4's called a simantra, an instrument used in Eastern Orthodox liturgical services, the patterns in the music subtly change and evolve, much the colors in Mark Rothko’s paintings. Performers include percussionists Brandon Bell, Craig Hauschildt, Luke Hubley, Graeme Francis, Matthew McClung, and Neil Sisauyhoat, marking the Houston...
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Event: 2015-04-18
Musical Meditation for MenilFest, 2015-04-18
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 914
Identifier: 80.6.914
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Intersection New Music Collective. Watch the light dance on Mark Rothko’s masterpiece while listening to music from composers of various faith traditions in one expression of common humanity. Like Rothko’s panels, each one similar but unique, the individual works on the program are canvases upon which the artists have projected their experiences and longings. Intersection New Music Collective is comprised of performers from faculty at Sam Houston State University, as well as student...
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Event: 2015-04-18
Peace Building through Art and Dialogue, 2013-10-08
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 915
Identifier: 80.6.915
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Mai Shbeta, Jwana Ghaleb, Shirit Milikovski, Dottie Indyke, Creativity for Peace. Art and dialogue are powerful mediums that can transform hearts and minds, even those of supposed enemies. Creativity for Peace uses art to give young Israeli and Palestinian women a language to communicate their shared fears, pain, and begin healing and peace-building. Israeli Mai Shbeta, Palestinian Jwana Ghaleb, and Israeli Shirit Milikovski are senior leaders with Creativity for Peace, a New Mexico...
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Event: 2013-10-08
Learning to Walk in the Dark, 2013-09-15
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 916
Identifier: 80.6.916
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Barbara Brown Taylor . Popular religious and spiritual teachers have a lot of positive things to say about “light” and “enlightenment,” but almost nothing to say about the value of “endarkenment.” Yet darkness plays an essential role in the spiritual life, especially when the well-lit structures of old-time religion are falling down. What might it mean to learn to walk in the dark? Could this be a skill that none of us can do without? Ordained Episcopal priest and memoirist Barbara Brown...
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Event: 2013-09-15
“Bach’s Double Concerto” Collaboration with Mercury, 2013-01-19
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 917
Identifier: 80.6.917
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Mercury and its ensemble of musicians offer a concert of three of J.S. Bach’s musical masterpieces including the beautiful Double Violin Concerto and the rarely performed original orchestration of his Suite No. 2. This ticketed event is part of Mercury’s Neighborhood Series. A reception for the public will follow the concert.Video by Runaway Productions
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Event: 2013-01-19
MLK Birthday Observance, 2013-01-15
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 918
Identifier: 80.6.918
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The Rothko Chapel continues its tradition of observing the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday with music from blues legend Texas Johnny Brown and The Quality Blues Band. Video by Runaway Productions
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Event: 2013-01-15
Seven Lost Words, 2016-07-21
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 919
Identifier: 80.6.919
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Mark Strand and Brentano String Quartet
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Event: 2016-07-21
Renovation of Rothko Chapel and Conservation of Chapel Paintings, 2000
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 920
Identifier: 80.6.920
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Houston PBS: Suna Umari and Carol Mancusi Ungaro:
Dates:
2000
A Sacred Place for All, 1995
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 921
Identifier: 80.6.921
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Nabila Drooby and Suna Umari
Dates:
1995
3 Rothko Chapel Stories
Item — Container: Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 922
Identifier: 80.6.922
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Brad Burkons. ): Seven Lost Words (11:30 mins), Rothko Chapel Renovation and Chapel Painting Restoration (9:13 mins), A Sacred Place for All (4:07 mins)
Dates:
1971