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The orchestra stands for a standing ovation.

ROCO Weaves Musical Threads Throughout Upcoming Season | Houston Press

Media Features, August 12, 2021

ROCO recently announced its 2021-22 season, which marks year number 17 for the organization to offer the most fun an audience can have with chamber and classical music. Centering around the theme of “Musical Threads,” the programming offers a well-rounded lineup of exciting world premieres, collaborations and a continued exploration into Houston’s unique spaces.

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A woman with brown hair in a pink shirt, conductor Sarah Hicks, bows to the audience.

Back to the Earth: A Climate-Focused New Season at ROCO | Arts+Culture Texas

Media Features, August 11, 2021

A historic ice storm. The four seasons. Industrial sites colliding with the natural world. A farmer’s life and its links to the land. A glacier that melted away.

If those sound like the latest topics from a natural-science magazine or a climate website, think again. They’ll all be evoked in music during the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra’s coming season—not that Alecia Lawyer, ROCO’s artistic director, started out with that in mind.

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ROCO on the Go: Menninger Clinic

Project, June 29, 2021

Choose your own sound adventure while traveling! ROCO on the Go allows music lovers to listen to ROCO’s vast catalogue from anywhere! Each playlist features a different mood category of music to allow the listener to choose their mood.

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Musical Threads

Season 17 Announced!

ROCO News Releases, May 25, 2021

Since 2005, ROCO has been committed to connecting our Houston community together through the joys of music. We have brought into the world over 110 new commissions from living composers of diverse backgrounds, shared performances in some of Houston’s most unique spaces, and with ROCO on the Go—continued to innovate even during a period of social distancing. Join us in our 17th season as we go even further in stitching the diverse parts of Houston together, weaving new musical tales which unite our community and beyond, in Season 2021-2022: Musical Threads!

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ROCO on the Go: The Vannie E. Cook Jr. Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center

Project, April 7, 2021

¡Experimente su propia aventura musical! ¡ROCO on the Go le permite a los amantes de la música escuchar el vasto catálogo de presentaciones pasadas de ROCO desde cualquier lugar! Cada lista de reproducción incluye una categoría de música diferente para que el oyente pueda elegir según su estado de ánimo. Choose your own sound adventure!…

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ROCO on the Go: Harris County Precinct 2 Parks & Trails

Project, March 31, 2021

Choose your own sound adventure while traveling! ROCO on the Go allows music lovers to listen to ROCO’s vast catalogue from anywhere! Each playlist features a different mood category of music to allow the listener to choose their mood.

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ROCO on the Go: Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center

Project, March 31, 2021

Choose your own sound adventure! ROCO on the Go allows music lovers to listen to ROCO’s vast catalogue from anywhere! Each playlist features a different mood category of music to allow the listener to choose their mood.

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Support ROCO’s Newest Adventure!

Blog, November 13, 2020

Did you know you can access ROCO anywhere you go? Over fifteen years, with your incredible support, we have invested in performances, recordings, and rights to music to enable you and so many others to have free access to our massive listening room anytime, anywhere.

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Buffalo Bayou’s new soundtrack is heard in landscape thanks to ROCO | Houston Chronicle Preview

Media Features, October 22, 2020

Jill Jarvis has a goal of one outdoor outing a day with her four children.

Earlier this month, the local blogger added an interactive soundtrack to the family’s regular stroll along the Buffalo Bayou trails. The Jarvises parked as they always do near the Sabine Street bridge, setting off in search of ROCO’s new QR-coded musical stops along the bayou.

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Houston’s ROCO teaches children how to listen to classical music | Houston Chronicle Preview

Media Features, September 28, 2020

ROCOrooters is more than just a novel approach to child care. It’s a kid-facing classical-music program that doesn’t talk down to youngsters, hoping instead to nurture them into lifelong fans.

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Music in the Air — This ROCO Gala Breaks New Ground in Virtual Fun | PaperCity Magazine

Media Features, September 28, 2020

Planning virtual fundraising events is no easy task and honestly not very promising on delivering interest. That said, meeting the challenge in style over the weekend was ROCO (previously known as River Oaks Chamber Orchestra) which aired its live performance from Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands. It was a first in many ways.

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ROCO Commissioned Composer Reena Esmail

Houston’s ROCO: definitely not your parents’ chamber orchestra | Houston Chronicle Preview

Media Features, September 25, 2020

With its emphasis on new technology and diverse programming – ranging from a work by a Public Enemy producer to an Aztec folk tale – the orchestra is ahead of the cultural curve.

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  • Meet
    • About ROCO
    • Artists
    • Board & Team
    • Newsroom
    • Press Kit
  • Livestream
  • Attend
    • Season 18 Announced!
    • Performances
    • ROCOrooters
    • Accessibility
    • Pay What You Wish
  • Listen
    • Listening Room
    • ROCO on the Go
    • Album
    • Commissions, Premieres, & Rescores
  • Support
    • Ways to Support
    • ROCO Revelry Gala
    • ROCO Resound
    • Sponsors & Partners
    • Donate
  • Follow
    • ROCO Mobile App
  • Contact