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Upcoming Events

Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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Location:
Music Building
Recital Hall
101 Pleasant Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
Free
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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Location:
Music Building
Recital Hall
101 Pleasant Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
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Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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more about event

Location:
Music Building
Recital Hall
101 Pleasant Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building. Click here for more information
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Location:
Heritage Park
1581 N Chaparral Street
Corpus Christi, TX 78401
Cost:
Free
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
Texas Jazz Festival
Texas Jazz Festival is the longest, largest free running festival in the world! The Texas Jazz Festival is a free event welcome to all ages. With three stages of live jazz music, incredible food and market vendors! Come experience a Jazz Fest like no other in TEXAS! Click here for more information
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Location:
Eddie Durham Park
205 Martin Luther King Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Cost:
Free
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
Calaboose African American History Museum
The Calaboose African American History Museum is celebrating the musical contributions and legacy of San Marcos native, Eddie Durham, with a free concert in the Eddie Durham Park, 205 Martin Luther King Drive, on Saturday, October 19, 2024, 11 am to 6 pm.
 
Eddie Durham’s daughter, Topsy Durham, is back again as special guest and emcee. This year’s event offers a fabulous lineup with The Blues Revue, featuring New York Blues Hall of Famer, Michael Powers; Morris Nelms & The Calaboose Players; Indigo Soul featuring Sonia Love; Ace Pepper; The Jamie Krueger Group; Blue Mist; and big band sounds from the Texas State Jazz Ensemble.
 
Join us for this great line-up of musicians along with food trucks, art vendors and craft tables for both children and adults to enjoy. This annual concert is a wonderful way to spend an October Saturday.
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Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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more about event
Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Benjamin Pierce is an accomplished low brass artist and teacher. He is a professor at the University of Arkansas, teaching a large studio of tuba and euphonium players and directing the tuba/euphonium ensemble. His studies took place at Bowling Green State University and the University of Michigan. His primary teachers were David Saygers, Velvet Brown, Fritz Kaenzig, and Wesley Jacobs.

Pierce has notably been the winner of some dozen international tuba and euphonium artist competitions held in the United States, Japan, Germany, Finland, South Korea, England, and Italy.

Benjamin Pierce can be heard on three recordings available from major online retailers. He is a Miraphone performing artist.

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
The Joel Frahm Trio is thrilled to announce the release of their second album, Lumination, which is now available on Anzic Records. Following extensive global touring, the trio, featuring Joel Frahm on tenor saxophone, Dan Loomis on acoustic bass, and Ernesto Cervini on drums, brings their unique sound and dynamic original compositions to this exciting new release.

Joel Frahm is celebrated as a modern icon of the tenor saxophone, known for his emotional projection, humour and technical prowess. In a career spanning 35 years, Frahm has worked extensively as a sideman with jazz luminaries such as Brad Mehldau, Matt Wilson, Jane Monheit, and Ari Hoenig, solidifying his status as one of the most important and exciting players of our time.

Recently, Frahm has shifted his full focus to bandleading and composing, resulting in a literal flurry of new compositions over the past five years. Many of these pieces are featured on Lumination as well as his previous album, The Bright Side. This creative renaissance is part of a seismic shift in Frahm’s life, which also includes his recent move from Nashville to Texas, where he now teaches full-time at Texas State University.
 

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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Location:
Evans Auditorium
627 N. LBJ Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
The Medium
by Gian Carlo Menotti
 
Matt Haney, Interim Director of Opera Theater
Dr. Mike Leavitt, Music Director

Description:  With the help of her daughter and a mute servant, phony psychic Madame Flora uses her clients' grief to deceive them. But one night, an uncanny encounter leads to tragedy, murder and madness.

*****
 

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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Location:
Parker Jazz Club
117 West 4th Street #107b
Austin, TX 78701
Cost:
Cover charge
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
Parker Jazz Club
In early 2018, Kris Kimura opened the doors to Parker Jazz Club, a world-class basement lounge clearly designed by a musician—for musicians. “There are rooms that cater to music and musicians. However, very few rooms are designed and literally BUILT for it,” says acclaimed Austin musician Alex Marrero. “Every microphone, cable, speaker, wire, baffle, table, and chair has been meticulously hand chosen for the purpose of serving the music. I have never seen anything like it in town for a room of that size. The reason is because it didn’t exist until Parker Jazz Club opened its doors.”

Parker Jazz Club—named after Kris’s son Parker—has since hosted phenomenal local, national, and international acts, including Doug Lawrence, Louis Hayes, Butch Miles, John Webber, Kris Johnson, Nestor Torres, Tom Scott, Herlin Riley, Eric Reed, and many others. “I don’t think I’ve ever known a musician to be so hands-on in opening a club,” says Lawrence, featured tenor saxophone soloist with the legendary Count Basie Orchestra.
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Location:
Evans Auditorium
627 N. LBJ Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
The Medium
by Gian Carlo Menotti
 
Matt Haney, Interim Director of Opera Theater
Dr. Mike Leavitt, Music Director

Description:  With the help of her daughter and a mute servant, phony psychic Madame Flora uses her clients' grief to deceive them. But one night, an uncanny encounter leads to tragedy, murder and madness.

*****
 

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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Location:
Music Building
Recital Hall
101 Pleasant Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
Free
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

With its jazz-tinged score, conspicuous display of technology, and scenes from modern, everyday life (including the notorious “bathtub aria” in which a naked soprano sings about the joys of modern plumbing), Paul Hindemith’s opera Neues vom Tage (News of the Day, 1929) seems to embody the Zeitgeist of Berlin’s “Golden Twenties.” The fact that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels denounced the opera in 1934 and the rumor that Hitler himself walked out of a performance, horrified by the sight of the bathing prima donna, only further cements the work’s association with Weimar modernist culture. For scholars today, the work primarily serves as a paradigm of Zeitoper, the Weimar-era genre of opera that dealt with contemporary issues.

Yet Hindemith’s biographer Heinrich Strobel would later claim that rather than a Zeitoper, Neues vom Tage was actually “eine Oper gegen die Zeit,” or an opera against the time. Hindemith’s publishers also complained that the opera had been misunderstood as a “glorification” of the Weimar Republic, instead of a “castigation and condemnation” of those years. Based on Hindemith’s correspondence with his publishers and contemporary music criticism, I suggest that Neues vom Tage expressed an ambivalent, even negative, stance towards modernity. Critics understood Hindemith’s signature “objective” musical style not as a rejection of pre-war romanticism, but as conveying the superficiality of modern mass culture. Likewise, the score’s pervasive jazz rhythms represented for many the increased mechanization of life, reflecting the concerns over rationalization and Americanization found in works such as Siegfried Kracauer’s The Salaried Masses (1930).

Re-evaluating Neues vom Tage challenges the standard portrait of Hindemith as the consummate musical modernist. It also sheds light on the larger anxieties in interwar German society regarding modernity and its signifiers (industrialization, mechanization, urbanization, and globalization), which in turn deflates the still-prevalent image of the Weimar Republic as a progressive cultural haven. Ultimately, the opera considered emblematic of the 1920s may have represented a statement against that very time.

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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more about event
Location:
Evans Auditorium
627 N. LBJ Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
The Medium
by Gian Carlo Menotti
 
Matt Haney, Interim Director of Opera Theater
Dr. Mike Leavitt, Music Director

Description:  With the help of her daughter and a mute servant, phony psychic Madame Flora uses her clients' grief to deceive them. But one night, an uncanny encounter leads to tragedy, murder and madness.

*****
 

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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more about event
Location:
Evans Auditorium
627 N. LBJ Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
The Medium
by Gian Carlo Menotti
 
Matt Haney, Interim Director of Opera Theater
Dr. Mike Leavitt, Music Director

Description:  With the help of her daughter and a mute servant, phony psychic Madame Flora uses her clients' grief to deceive them. But one night, an uncanny encounter leads to tragedy, murder and madness.

*****
 

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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Location:
The Davenport
194 South Guadalupe Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
Cost:
Free
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
Free performances by TXST Orquesta del Rio and TXST Salsa del Rio. Click here for more information
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Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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more about event
Location:
Music Building
Recital Hall
101 Pleasant Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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more about event
Location:
Music Building
Recital Hall
101 Pleasant Street
San Marcos, TX 78666; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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more about event
Location:
Music Building
Recital Hall
101 Pleasant Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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more about event
Location:
Evans Auditorium
627 N. LBJ Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
The Medium
by Gian Carlo Menotti
 
Matt Haney, Interim Director of Opera Theater
Dr. Mike Leavitt, Music Director

Description:  With the help of her daughter and a mute servant, phony psychic Madame Flora uses her clients' grief to deceive them. But one night, an uncanny encounter leads to tragedy, murder and madness.

*****
 

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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more about event
Location:
Evans Auditorium
627 N. LBJ Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music
The Medium
by Gian Carlo Menotti
 
Matt Haney, Interim Director of Opera Theater
Dr. Mike Leavitt, Music Director

Description:  With the help of her daughter and a mute servant, phony psychic Madame Flora uses her clients' grief to deceive them. But one night, an uncanny encounter leads to tragedy, murder and madness.

*****
 

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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more about event
Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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more about event
Location:
Music Building
Recital Hall
101 Pleasant Street
San Marcos, TX 78666; Recital Hall
Cost:
Free
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the Pleasant St. Garage by the Music Building.

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more about event
Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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more about event
Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
TXST School of Music

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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more about event

Location:
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
; Recital Hall
Cost:
For ticketing and livestream information, visit txstatepresents.com .
Contact:
512-245-2651
music@txstate.edu
Campus Sponsor:
College of Fine Arts and Communication

Fee-based parking is available at the N. Edward Gary St. Garage by the Performing Arts Center.

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