ARTS PICKS
Esa-Pekka Salonen makes Houston debut.
1. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Famed San Francisco Symphony music director Esa-Pekka Salonen makes his debut with the Houston Symphony this weekend. He will conduct the orchestra through a program that includes music by Johann Sebastian Bach arranged for small orchestra by Otto Klemperer, Anton Webern and Luciano Berio. Concertmaster Yoonshin Song will perform Bach’s Prelude from Violin Partita No. 3. And the symphony will close the program with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1.
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday
Where: Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
Details: $29-$109 (Saturday show livestreaming for $20); 713-224-7575, houstonsymphony.org
Andrew Dansby
2. ‘Time No Longer’
The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern hosts a stirring audio/visual installation by Albanian artist Anri Sala. “Time No Longer” casts the image of a CGI-generated turntable on holographic gauze 22 feet high and 122 feet long, set to a newly conceived arrangement of composer Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time,” written when Messiaen was a prisoner of war 80 years ago.
When: Through Dec. 12.
Where: Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, 105 Sabine
Details: $12 (free on Thursdays); buffalobayou.org
Andrew Dansby
3. ‘Tab-stone setting: Intro into jewelry-making’
Calling all aspiring jewelers. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft instructor Tarina Frank leads a virtual workshop on the basics of jewelry design, including how to saw metal settings and tab set a sizable cabochon stone. Don’t worry — no soldering tools are required for class, though Jemco Jeweler’s Supply has a $75 preassembled kit with all the necessary materials.
When: 11 a.m. March 27
Details: $25 for members, $35 for nonmembers; crafthouston.org
Amber Elliott
4. Laura Corley Burlton
Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts describes Laura Corley Burlton’s work as “invoking fairy tales, surreal scenes and dreamscapes”
through use of costumes, masks, dramatic lighting and a captivating mix of antiquated and modern photographic technique. The American artist and photographer delights in whimsy, darkness and mystery on her own terms. This week, the Talento Bilingue de Houston invites viewers to step into Burlton’s world during an artist’s reception.
When: 6-9 p.m. March 27
Where: Talento Biligue de Houston Center, 333 S. Jensen
Details: Free; 713-222-1213
Amber Elliott