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MLK Program: The Salvation Army Harbor Light Choir, 2010-01-15
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 02
Identifier: 30.91.02
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The acclaimed Salvation Army Harbor Light Choir pays tribute to the great American civil rights leader with a concert of joyous and inspirational songs
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Event: 2010-01-15
Song Salon: Tonal Transcendence - Composers and Human Rights, 2010-01-29
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 03
Identifier: 30.91.03
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Sonja Bruzauskas, Mezzo Soprano
Presented by Divas World Productions"Tonal Transcendence" is a program that reflects one of the primary goals of the Rothko Chapel-the advancement of human rights. This concert will feature music by composers responding to political oppression-whether personally experienced or as a testimony to the suffering of others. Political systems often attempt to use art as a means of control, and some of the most remarkable music of the 20th century was...
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Event: 2010-01-29
Lunar New Year Celebration, 2010-02-14
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 05
Identifier: 30.91.05
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On Chapel plaza.
In 2010, the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated as the beginning of the calendar year in the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Vietnamese, and Cambodian cultures, falls on February 14.In observance, the Rothko Chapel has invited representatives of two Buddhist traditions, the Tibetan Bon and Nichiren Shu, to conduct a joint ritual celebration on the Chapel Plaza around the reflecting pool and Barnett Newman's monolithic sculpture, Broken Obelisk. The ritual...
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Event: 2010-02-14
Ash Wednesday Service , 2010-02-17
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 06
Identifier: 30.91.06
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Covenant Baptist Church
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Event: 2010-02-17
Chanting in the Chapel, 2010-02-20
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 07
Identifier: 30.91.07
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with Monks from the Monastery of Christ in the DesertThis is an opportunity for people to participate in the centuries old Christian monastic tradition of chanting the Divine Office. Monks from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert will be leading the audience in chanting Terce at 9 a.m., and Sext at 11:30 a.m. Each time of prayer will begin with a description of the Office and a short lesson on how to chant and read the notations for the Gregorian Chant (sung in English). From...
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Event: 2010-02-20
Mural Concert: Doom and Promise, 2010-03-04
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 08
Identifier: 30.91.08
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Kim Myhr, Guitar
Jim Denley, Woodwinds
Ingar Zach, PercussionThe Rothko Chapel, one of the globe’s most celebrated contemporary sacred spaces, and home to fourteen monumental murals by the renowned American painter Mark Rothko, is pleased to present the exclusive Houston engagement, and the first United States performance, of the international new music trio MURAL in concert. MURAL is composed of musicians Kim Myhr and Ingar Zach, both from Norway, and Jim Denley of Australia....
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Event: 2010-03-04
RED: A Play about Rothko, 2010
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 09
Identifier: 30.91.09
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Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.
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Event: 2010
Afghanistan: Fact or Fiction, 2010-03-11
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 10
Identifier: 30.91.10
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Nelofer Pazira was born in India and grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan during the Russian occupation of her country. The Paziras fled the war in 1989, when Nelofer was sixteen. After living as refugees in Pakistan for a year, the family migrated to Canada. She obtained a degree in Journalism and English Literature from Carleton University in Ottawa, and completed her MA thesis (Anthropology/Sociology and Religion) at Concordia University, Montreal. She received an honorary doctorate of laws,...
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Event: 2010-03-11
Menil Community Arts Festival, 2010-03-13
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 11
Identifier: 30.91.11
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The Rothko Chapel offers two programs as part of the Menil Community Arts Festival.11 a.m.: A Conversation with Houston Chronicle Art Critic Douglas Britt
Houston Chronicle art critic Douglas Britt will discuss the Chapel's suite of fourteen monumental paintings by American painter Mark Rothko.1 p.m.: East/West Improvisational Music by The Language of Peace
Classical Indian vocalist Nanda Banerjee, cellist Max Dyer, and keyboardist/composer John Hardesty form The...
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Event: 2010-03-13
In the Sufi Tradition: Poetry and Music Celebrating A Face That Does Not Bear the Footprints of the World, 2010-03-25
File — Container: Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 12
Identifier: 30.91.12
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Usha Akella, poet and Steve Gorn, flutePoet Usha Akella will read from her most recent book of poems accompanied by the internationally-renowned musician Steve Gorn. The poetry celebrates the Sufi spirit with poems of devotion, love, and yearning for the divine. The work resonates with the sanctity and dignity of the Rothko Chapel’s mission and is universal in its spiritual message of love and harmony.Usha Akella moved to the United States from India in 1993. She...
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Event: 2010-03-25