austin chamber music center

Tune in to KMFA this weekend. This summer KMFA began its Kids Recording Kids Project.  Guitar students from McCallum High School, and students from the Austin Chamber Music Center, were recorded by other young people learning their way around classical music radio production!  They produced a one-hour show that will be broadcast this Saturday at 10am, and again on Sunday at 3pm on KMFA, Classical 89.5.  Tune in!

I'm super excited to announce our new Latin Summer Concert Series Pasión!

It's online now!

‘Vigil’
Austin stage favorites Lana Dieterich and Ken Webster are back for the revival of Hyde Park Theatre’s award-winning production of Morris Panych’s dark comedy.

When a self-involved man quits his job to care for his dying wealthy aunt, things are not really what they seem — especially not when the aunt seems to make a recovery. 8 p.m.

Thursdays-Saturday through Oct. 9. Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St. $19. www.hydeparktheatre.org

‘Ellington’s Sacred Concert’

Last year, it was beyond standing room only when Austin Chamber Music Center hooked up with Huston-Tillotson University choirs and other performers in a rousing performance of Duke Ellington’s ‘Sacred Concert.’

People filled the aisles and even stood out in the hall of HTU’s King Seabrook Chapel last year as the choirs, jazz orchestra, soloists and an accompanying tap dancer made Ellington’s oratorio mighty.

We love recession-friendly arts programming.

Programming like the free concert by the Santiago-Salomon Duo, 3 p.m.

Sunday at Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress Ave.

The Austin Chamber Music Center is hosting the Oaxaca-based pair of musicians for a concert.

Violinist Ana Patricia Santiago and pianist Carlos R.

Salomon have carved our a repertoire for themselves that blends classical music with the traditional music of Mexico and Latin America.

For Sunday’s program, the duo will play many of Salomon’s own compositions.

It’s a big weekend for new music in Austin, with two stellar concerts offered.

`Happy Birthday Mr.

Cage’<br> 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover Ave.
$10
www.austinchambermusic.org

That his birthday is celebrated every year in Austin with a concert followed by a grocery store sheet cake would no doubt tickle the late composer John Cage, the radical innovator whose experiments challenge the entire notion of what music could be.