Houston Chamber Choir to Make Miller Outdoor Theatre Debut 10/5 in 'LOVE ME DO!'

Houston Chamber Choir will present its debut performance at Miller Outdoor Theatre of Love Me Do! Love Songs of the '60s on Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 8:00 pm. The choir, led by Artistic Director Robert Simpson, continues its 19th season with a reprise of last season's popular program of songs of the 1860s & 1960s, presenting Brahms' beloved Liebeslieder Waltzes and chart-toppers by The Beatles. Miller Outdoor Theatre is located at 6000 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX 77030. Admission to this concert is free. More information can be found at www.houstonchamberchoir.org or call (713) 224-5566.

Celebrating the appearance of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan show 50 years ago, Houston Chamber Choir offers its take on the songs from the British quartet that wildly swept through our nation and defined a generation. Selections include: "Yesterday", "Help!", "Eleanor Rigby", "Come Together", "Hey Jude", and of course "Love Me Do!". Many of the songs selected showcase the wonderfully crafted arrangements by Yumiko Matsuoka, professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. As Leonard Bernstein once quipped, "Three bars of 'A day in the life' still sustain me, rejuvenate me and inflame my senses and sensibilities."

The program includes Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes. In a style more associated with the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss, the Liebeslieder Waltzes reveal Brahms's compositional skill in creating ravishing melodies beloved by vocalists and audiences alike.

Artistic Director and Conductor, Robert Simpson, notes: "Love has been a favorite topic for as long as there's been music. And with our upcoming concert of Brahms and The Beatles we can explore the universal themes of joy, loss, and longing in timeless settings created a century apart....Yumiko Matsuoka's enchanting arrangements will make you fall in love with The Beatles all over again."

ABOUT HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR: Houston Chamber Choir is a professional ensemble at the forefront of choral music in the United States. Dave Brubeck, Peter Schickele, Bill McGlaughlin, Joseph Flummerfelt, Peter Phillips, Reinbert de Leeuw and Jamie Bernstein are just some of the artists with whom the ensemble has collaborated. It has commissioned new works from Christopher Theofanidis, David Ashley White, Anthony Brandt, and Dominick DiOrio. Houston Chamber Choir has toured internationally from Mexico to Wales and appeared nationally at conventions of The American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, and most recently at Trinity Wall Street in New York and Yale University. Its 2009 recording of 19th and 20th century Russian secular choral music, Ravishingly Russian, was greeted with glowing reviews: "Ravishing is right" (Gramophone) and "The singing is top-of-the-line" (American Record Guide). In 2012 the ensemble released "one recording that Baroque music lovers will need in their collection," (Fanfare) the world premiere recording of Psalmi ad Vesperas, by late 17th century Italian composer Giovanni Paolo Colonna.

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