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Concerts & Performances

Jazz in the Atrium
Late Night After Hours Music Showcase
Late Night Special Performance: Klytemnestra: The Original Subversive Female
Undermain Reads
Music & Masterpieces

Jazz in the Atrium

Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Atrium
FREE

Every Thursday evening, enjoy live jazz concerts by some of the area's greatest musicians, and join us for a casual dinner and cocktails in the DMA Cafe. FREE admission to performance; food and cocktails available for purchase.

For a full list of performers, click here.

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Late Night After Hours Music Showcase

Third Fridays, 10:00 p.m., Atrium
FREE
Join us every Late Night for our After Hours Music Showcase, which will feature alt-country, folk, acoustic, indie, rock, hip-hop, alternative, and emerging bands from Texas.

Friday, May 17, featuring The Angelus
The North Texas band The Angelus, led by vocal powerhouse Emil Rapstine, performs glorious electrified folk music and creates epic sounds. They just released their album On a Dark & Barren Land, of which Simon Raymonde from the Cocteau Twins says, “It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.”

Friday, June 21, featuring Girl In A Coma
San Antonio band Girl In A Coma has left a permanent tattoo on the hearts of music lovers with their piercing songs and nuclear performances. They have toured with Morrissey, Sia, The Pogues, and Amanda Palmer and contributed a song to Robert Rodriguez’s film Machete. They have released four albums, including their latest Exits & All the Rest.

This series is part of the monthly Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art program.

Late Night Special Performance

Misha Penton | Divergence Vocal Theater present
Klytemnestra: The Original Subversive Female
A new chamber opera by Dominick DiOrio; libretto by Misha Penton

Friday, May 17
9:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
Included in free general admission to Late Nights

Join Houston's Divergence Vocal Theater, an ensemble dedicated to multidisciplinary, contemporary music theater works, for a presentation of a new chamber opera based on the Greek heroine Klytemnestra from Aeschylus' Agamemnon.

Klytemnestra, a new chamber opera by composer Dominick DiOrio, is a musical setting of soprano and Divergence Vocal Theater artistic director Misha Penton's libretto. The work highlights the Greek heroine's complex psychological world and her relationship with her sacrificed daughter, Iphigenia. Join Penton and her multi-arts collaborators, Meg Brooker, dancer; Meredith Harris, viola; Kyle Evans, piano; and Miranda Herbert, narrator, for an intense musical exploration of this fascinating woman.

Misha Penton is a contemporary opera singer, theater-media artist, librettist, song lyricist, and poet. She is known for her dramatic prowess and “exquisite and succulent vocal range” (CultureMap Houston), “smoldering flair” (Houston ArtsWeek), and “mesmerizing presence” (Houston Press). Her diverse performing career includes opera, concert, and multidisciplinary performance projects. She is the founder, artistic director, and lead ensemble artist of Houston's multi-arts performance ensemble Divergence Vocal Theater.

Dominick DiOrio recently finished three years as director of choral activities and associate professor of music at Lone Star College-Montgomery. As of fall 2012, he is Assistant Professor of Music on the conducting faculty at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He was named "Best Composer 2011" by Houston Press for his new opera, Klytemnestra, with Divergence Vocal Theater. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting from the Yale School of Music in May 2012. He has also received an MMA and MM in choral conducting from Yale and a BM in composition from Ithaca College. His work is published with Alliance, Lorenz, and Oxford.

This performance is part of the monthly Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art program.

Undermain Reads

Presented in partnership with Undermain Theatre

Selected dates, 2:00 p.m., Horchow Auditorium
FREE

Undermain Theatre, voted "Best Theatre" by D magazine in 2010 and hailed as “one of the best small theaters in America,” will continue its acclaimed reading series at the Dallas Museum of Art. These rare and varied works, drawn from many theatrical traditions, are fully produced readings accompanied by a feast of sound and visuals.

Saturday, May 18
Sacrifice

Undermain Theatre continues its popular reading series with a staged reading of Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali drama Sacrifice. One of the finest writers of the 20th century, Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and his poetry is still read the world over. Sacrifice (or Visarjan) is considered to be one of his finest plays. Hear Undermain’s cast of actors perform Tagore’s riveting drama of royal intrigue and the mythic struggle to end blood sacrifices in the temple of the goddess of war.

For more information on Undermain Theatre, please visit their website.

Music & Masterpieces

Presented in partnership with the Dallas Opera

Music & Masterpieces, a new interdisciplinary partnership between the Dallas Opera and the Dallas Museum of Art, unites the performing arts with the visual arts in a new and exciting way. Each Music & Masterpieces program includes a performance by world-renowned musicians inspired by the DMA’s special exhibitions or collection, followed by a gallery tour given by a curator or local expert. Through this pairing, visitors gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of both art forms and the influences they have on one another within a shared theme, era, or culture.

Upcoming Music & Masterpieces:

Sunday, September 15
Performance at 2:00 p.m., Tour at 3:00 p.m.
Hispanic Heritage

For more information on the Dallas Opera, visit their website.