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CATEGORIES: SPECIAL OCCASION;TRAVEL;APPOINTMENT
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SUMMARY:VENUE CHANGE Club AFA! (American Festival for the Arts)
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: VENUE CHANGE Club AFA! (American Festival for the Arts)=0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/24503=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2009-07-11=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2009-07-11=0D=0A=0D=0AAFA (American Festival for the Arts) presents Club AFA!=0D=0A=Join the AFA faculty for a relaxed and intimate evening at Ovations in Rice Village. AFA's outstanding faculty artists, along with special guests, will perform a wonderful and diverse variety of solo and chamber works past and present. Members of the AFA faculty are nationally known performers, educators, composers and conductors.=0D=0A=American 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 broaden the audience for both new American works and the standard classical music repertory.=0D=0A=To achieve its mission, AFA presents an annual Summer Music Conservatory and Concert Series. This unique and acclaimed community-based music education program, featuring faculty members drawn from the nations' finest educators, performers, composers and conductors, has become recognized as an important annual event in the cultural life of Southeast Texas and as a model for similar programs around the nation. A rigorous curriculum that includes large and small ensemble performance, music theory/enrichment classes and private lessons forms the core of AFA's orchestra, jazz, choir, piano and composition departments.=0D=0A=The Conservatory is an inspiring, life changing experience for its students. In 2008, AFA's thirteenth Summer Music Conservatory enrolled 332 students from 109 elementary, middle and senior high schools. AFA presented twenty-one free concerts to thousands of area music lovers featuring more American works and world premieres than any other area presenter. More than three out of every five students received tuition assistance from the AFA Scholarship Enrichment Fund.=0D=0A=0D=0AStart time:7:00 PM=0D=0A=NOTE: This event was originally to take place at Ovations and is now to be held at Dowling Music Recital Hall, 2615 Southwest Fwy, Suite 200.
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