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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: AFA (American Festival for the Arts) World Premiere
 s Concert\nEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/24641/AFA_Amer
 ican_Festival_for_the_Arts_World_Premieres_Concert\nEvent Date Begin: 2009
 -07-16\nEvent Date End: 2009-07-16\n\nAFA (American Festival for the Arts)
  presents an AFA (American Festival for the Arts) World Premieres Concert.
 \nAFA's Composition department shines tonight in performances of new chamb
 er music pieces (performed by AFA faculty artists) and ballets written by 
 AFA student composers and choreographed and performed by members of Ben St
 evenson's Houston Ballet Academy.  This nationally recognized collaboratio
 n between AFA and HBA is in its twelfth summer and has produced more than 
 50 world premiere works.\nAmerican Festival for the Arts (AFA) was founded
  in 1993 by Houston composer J. Todd Frazier to provide accessible\, high-
 quality music education and performance opportunities for youth and to bro
 aden the audience for both new American works and the standard classical m
 usic repertory.\nTo achieve its mission\, AFA presents an annual Summer Mu
 sic Conservatory and Concert Series. This unique and acclaimed community-b
 ased music education program\, featuring faculty members drawn from the na
 tions' finest educators\, performers\, composers and conductors\, has beco
 me recognized as an important annual event in the cultural life of Southea
 st Texas and as a model for similar programs around the nation. A rigorous
  curriculum that includes large and small ensemble performance\, music the
 ory/enrichment classes and private lessons forms the core of AFA's orchest
 ra\, jazz\, choir\, piano and composition departments.\nThe Conservatory i
 s an inspiring\, life changing experience for its students. In 2008\, AFA'
 s thirteenth Summer Music Conservatory enrolled 332 students from 109 elem
 entary\, middle and senior high schools. AFA presented twenty-one free con
 certs to thousands of area music lovers featuring more American works and 
 world premieres than any other area presenter. More than three out of ever
 y five students received tuition assistance from the AFA Scholarship Enric
 hment Fund.\nArrive early for a good seat for this unique and inspiring ev
 ent. Presented in Partnership with Ben Stevenson's Houston Ballet Academy 
 and Generously Underwritten by Ruby & Melvin Sondock/Annette & Hal Kuntz.
 \n\nStart time: 7:00 PM
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SUMMARY:AFA (American Festival for the Arts) World Premieres Concert
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