Two Star Symphony began in Houston in 2002 when Margaret LeJeune and Debra Brown wrote music for an open-mic performance. Expanding into an ensemble of strings, percussion, winds, and other instruments, the group developed original scores for silent cinema, dance, puppetry, and theater. Commissions included The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Titus Andronicus for Dominic Walsh Dance Theater. Later work in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern extended its interest in unusual performance spaces, connecting chamber instrumentation with Houston’s interdisciplinary arts community and the acoustics of the city itself.
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Held artifact from Westheimer Block Party, spring 2006, an edition the act played. Planned stage guide, printed page 8 of Free Press Houston Issue 63, April 2006. The listed April 29 event was rained out; this page does not establish that the program was performed on the announced May 27 rain date. Artwork by Tyler Barber. Free Press Houston Archive holding.
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“At Discovery Green, the Cirque la Vie event will bring aerial acrobats from Italy to town, the show will also have a performance from Houston’s Two Star Symphony.”
Westheimer between Yoakum and Taft — Black Widow Pub, Helios, Mango’s, La Strada and Numbers
Date
2006-04-29
Stage
Inside Mango’s (403 Westheimer)
Set time
6:15–6:45
Billing
Planned April 29 lineup
Evidence
Lineup row held for Westheimer Block Party, spring 2006, source wbp-2006-spring-program.
Related Free Press Houston coverage
Archive articles that name Two Star Symphony. A mention is a sighting in the paper’s own pages, not a statement that the piece is about this performer.
