Friday, January 9th, 2025 7:30 PM

Ascension Episcopal Church

2525 Seagler Rd.

Houston, TX 77042

Explore the bonds that tie us together: through blood, through shared passion, and through music itself. Music: Relatively Speaking celebrates the powerful connections within families, both living and immortalized through their musical legacies. From timeless works by renowned musical families to pieces inspired by the joys, struggles, and intimacies of family life, this concert is a tapestry of heritage, memory, and devotion.

The evening will feature the world premiere of Blood and Water, a song cycle by Adam Vincent Clay, founder of the Houston New Arts Movement, performed by soprano Frances Fenton. Tracing family dynamics from the formal distance of T.S. Eliot’s Aunt Helen and Cousin Nancy to the intimate reflection of D.H. Lawrence’s The Piano, the cycle explores memory, inheritance, and the emotional ties that shape us.

Join us for a night where family stories resonate not only in words but in the very notes themselves: celebrating connection, creativity, and the legacies that bind us across generations.