Connections
Past Performances
ROCO Connections: Mixed Messages (October 2021)
ROCO’s Connections series opened October 9 with “Mixed Messages”, a celebration of World Post Day—live from Houston’s downtown cultural campus,…
ROCO Connections: A House of My Own
Due to COVID-19, we will be postponing this event to next season. Stay tuned for a new date!
ROCO Connections: Pulling at Strings
Presented in partnership with Holocaust Museum Houston, ROCO’s Connections series features guitarist Mak Grgic on March 26 in an evening of works from around the world, live from the Museum’s Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater and livestreamed at ROCO.org, Facebook, and YouTube.
ROCO Connections: Interwoven
Be there as ROCO’s Connections series concludes May 7 at the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, and experience a one-of-a-kind performance in “Interwoven” - featuring the ROCO brass in a site-specific world premiere commission by Marcus Maroney!
ROCO Connections: Yuletide Brunch & Brass
Get in the holiday spirit December 11 with the ROCO Brass Quintet and friends, as the Connections series returns to the Czech Center Museum Houston!
ROCO Connections: A Dust in Time
ROCO’s Connections series continues on November 19, presenting Huang Ruo’s A Dust in Time Passacaglia for Strings at Asia Society Texas Center, and also livestreamed at ROCO.org, Facebook, and YouTube.
ROCO Connections: Beer and Brass
Roll out the barrel–as this annual ROCO tradition returns in-person in 2022! Celebrate with good food, good friends, and good music as the ROCO Brass Quintet serenades audiences at the Saint Arnold Brewing Company.
ROCO Connections: Mixed Messages
ROCO’s Connections series opens October 9 with “Mixed Messages”, a celebration of World Post Day—live from Houston’s downtown cultural campus, the POST.
ROCO Connections: Celebration of Margaret Bonds (February 2021)
The Connections series continued via livestream in February, with an intimate concert featuring the music of Margaret Bonds—one of the most prolific Black composers of the 1900s—plus works by composers who influenced or were influenced by her, including Florence Price, Ned Rorem, and Robert Owens.
ROCO Connections: We Were the Music (March 2020)
ROCO was honored to partner with the Holocaust Museum Houston, marking the recent reopening of their expanded new building, with “We Were the Music” – a chamber concert featuring the world premieres of two ROCO commissions by Bruce Adolphe, part of his season triptych in tribute to female musicians of the Holocaust.
ROCO Connections: Age of Aquarius (January 2020)
The Age of Aquarius was reimagined at Rienzi on January 30, 2020, as ROCO explored the music of the 70s - that is, 1770s, 1870s, and 1970s!
