(one more time!!) Ticket giveaway! Da Camera of Houston presents Chopin in Paris

We've got 5 more pairs of tickets to the show, with love from Da Camera who are tickled pink at the strong response the show has gotten from our awesome Houstonist readers!! ~~Holy cow our readers are speedy!! We've given away all of our free Da Camera tickets for this Saturday's performance - but definitely encourage you to check it out regardless!~~

We know you dig drinking Lone Star in grungy bars and scarfing late night pizza pie grease with your buddies, but you're much more complicated than just that. You need a little extra culture every once in a while and we are here to help (and occasionally buy you a pitcher of something too).

H-Town, being the marvelously culture-rich city that it is, has a sometimes hidden treasure in Da Camera of Houston. We say 'sometimes' because they keep popping up on our radar with cool 'Music in the Galleries' performances at the Menil - but many may not immediately equate chamber music with completely awesome (the silly fools).

In the spirit of cultural exchange and giving away cool free stuff, we've got 5 pairs of tickets to give away for an amazing Chopin in Paris: Epigraph for a Condemned Book Da Camera performance this Saturday, October 18th at 8pm in the Wortham Center.

It is a wicked mash up of Chopin's music, Baudelaire's poetry and haunting video and lighting. In short, Da Camera candy for your ears and eyes (and dare we say -- your soul? you culturally refined creature you).

Want to go, want to go? We knew you would. Email us at katie at houstonist dot com and claim those tickets, baby! 5 pairs in all, consider this a great way to end a day at the Bayou City Arts Festival or a great way to start a date night with that pitcher of Lone Star to follow. More details on the Chopin in Paris: Epigraph for a Condemned Book performance after the break.

Pianist and Da Camera of Houston Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg brings a signature work from her nationally recognized Music and the Literary Imagination series back to Houston on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 8:00pm in the Cullen Theater of the Wortham Theater Center. Chopin in Paris: Epigraph for a Condemned Book, a work conceived, directed and performed by Rothenberg, evokes mid-19th century Paris through the music of Frédéric Chopin and the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. Epigraph for a Condemned Book features a collage of sound (the music of Chopin and the voices of Eva LaGalliene and Louis Jordan and others reading Baudelaire’s words) and vision (paintings by Delacroix, French and English texts of Baudelaire’s poems, Jennifer Tipton’s glowing lighting, photographs by Nadar, Negre and others). Sarah Rothenberg’s performance and Christopher Kondek’s sensitive use of the latest in video projection technology together create an intimate, dream-like atmosphere that evokes Paris and invites the audience into the milieu that gave rise to these mysterious works of art.