Brad Cavanaugh

Inside Houston Symphony’s $1.1M ‘Golden Age of Hollywood’ ball at the Post Oak Hotel

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Welcome to Hollywood, Texas.

For one night only, Houston Symphony transformed the Post Oak Hotel at Uptown’s into scenes from the “Golden Age of Hollywood” for its annual black-tie ball.

Think “L.A. Confidential,” and “Chinatown.” A quartet of trench-clad reporter impersonators welcomed 400 guests into the gala. Pencils and notepads in hand, they shouted interview questions at arrivals. Inside, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn lookalikes posed against Art Deco-inspired backdrops. 

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William Cavanaugh

Houston’s Lunch of Secrets Earns the Symphony League a Coveted National Gold Award

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Applause, applause for the Houston Symphony League which has received a coveted Gold Award for one of its special events from the Volunteer Council of the League of American Orchestras, a national leadership group of individuals recognized for outstanding support of their local symphony orchestras.

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Brad Cavanaugh

Musicians bring Houston Symphony to people in communities that may not have access otherwise

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The holiday party at CarePartners’ Dementia Day Center is in full swing. Maybe 30 to 40 clients, known as “members,” mingle with family members, enjoying cookies and hot chocolate in the center’s day room. Seventh-graders from nearby St. Mark’s Episcopal School fan through the crowd, passing out treats.

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William Cavanaugh

Charlie Wilson’s War Heroine Shares Tales of the Earliest Days of the Houston Symphony League — Joanne King Herring Has Been Involved Since 1946

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What: The Houston Symphony League Fall Membership Luncheon

Where: The Junior League of Houston

PC Moment: The age-defying Joanne King Herring — who has lived many exciting interludes in her 90-plus years, including having Julia Roberts portray her in Charlie Wilson’s War — took a step way back to recall the early days of the Houston Symphony and her memories of Ima Hogg, principal of the symphony founding in 1913. Herring was just 17 when she first became involved with the symphony in 1946.

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Ann Cavanaugh

Jones Hall is undergoing a $25.5M upgrade to improve sound and replace aging infrastructure

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Over the span of a month, Jones Hall served as the setting for an emotional farewell to Houston Symphony music director Andres Orozco-Estrada and a grandiose welcome to his successor Juraj Valcuha.

Rather than Mahler’s “Resurrection” symphony or Beethoven’s Ninth, the sounds emanating inside the downtown hall this week are from construction, the first step in an endeavor called “Overture to the Future,” a multi-year, multi-million-dollar update of the performing arts space that opened in 1966. In a city known for tearing buildings down, Jones Hall will — like the Alley Theatre a few years ago — be the beneficiary of a significant renovation rather than demolition.

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William Cavanaugh

Inspiring Conversations with Jacquie Baly of BalyProjects

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Jacquie Baly. She shares her story with us below:

*Native of St. Croix USVI, came to Texas at the age of 7.
*Parents are from the French West Indies and a majority of my relatives live in St. Martin/Maarten
*I am the first of my family to graduate from college (however my mother earned her degree soon after).
*My parents taught me that hard work, discipline, dedication and a good work-ethic will take me very far.
*After graduate school (I have a master’s in City Planning with a concentration in Public Affairs) I began my work career as a city planner and progressed to Vice President of the Greater Houston Partnership before starting my own consulting practice.

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