12 Minutes MAX! A Community Gathering
In this 12 Minutes MAX! event, Pianist Sarah Rothenburg performed the Houston premiere of the piano solo, And like a … an engine by composer Joan Tower, who based it on a poem by John Ashbery. The Houston Ballet presented a duet, while Writers in the Schools presented a poetry and fiction reading by three young writers from Jefferson Davis High School. Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA) presented an excerpt from a collection of famous songs of the Mexican Revolution, titled Un Mosaico Musical Mexicano.