Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival - "The Audience's Guide to Orchestra" WEEK 3

TMF Week 3, entitled “The Audience’s Guide to the Orchestra,” marks the return of Guest Conductor Mei-Ann Chen, plus TMF’s first approach to an orchestral “primer” program for classical music lovers of all ages. The dual June 24 and 25 concerts will boast the student winner of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition as soloist (work TBA), complemented by the following family-friendly program: Piotr Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture – Fantasy; Benjamin Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 narrated by Houston Public Media’s St. John Flynn; and Igor Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1947).

Each summer the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival (TMF) offers music lovers a month of cool, classical concerts. The June 3 – July 2 international music residency, based at the University of Houston (UH) Moores School of Music, attracts classical music’s rising stars from top tier music conservatories worldwide to study and perform in concert with world-class soloists, conductors and faculty artists at the UH Moores Opera House and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. TMF is in its 27th season.

Friday, June 24, 2016,  8 p.m. at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands: Free

Saturday, June 25, 2016,  7:30 p.m. at the UH Moores Opera House (Pre-concert performances by members of Virtuosi of Houston begin 6:30 p.m. Settling the Score, preconcert lectures with Dr. Andrew Davis, begins at 6:40 p.m., Rm. 108 Moores School of Music (MSM)