With Malice Towards None Produced by Apollo Chamber Players

Apollo Chamber Players presents With Malice Toward None, a multidisciplinary program reflecting our shared humanity, of art being a force for good in our fractured yet ever-progressing republic.

Apollo Chamber Players presents With Malice Toward None, a multidisciplinary program reflecting our shared humanity, of art being a force for good in our fractured yet ever-progressing republic.

Music selections feature recent Apollo commissions, including With Malice Toward None by Black Vietnam veteran composer J. Kimo Williams; Revise? by Emmy-winning composer Jasmine Barnes and Houston Poet Laureate Emeritus Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton; Quantopia/The Thought Police by Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky; and Firewall by Houston-based composer Mark Buller. Also included will be new arrangements of music by Ludwig Van Beethoven to complement the idea that musical expression can affect positive change.

Special guests include Tracy Silverman, the “greatest living exponent of the electric violin” (BBC Radio), Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, spoken word poet, and members of Houston Ebony Opera Guild, Philip Hall Singers, and Houston Chamber Choir.

With Malice Toward None is dedicated to the late Civil Rights leader Congressman John Lewis and finds inspiration from Beethoven, a composer for whom politics seamlessly intersected with art. Apollo’s album of the same name, released in 2021, reached No. 1 on Amazon’s ‘Hot New Release’ chart and has been featured on Sirius XM, NPR, and radio/media stations across the globe.