Tchaikovsky’s Musical Gifts 2024 School Showcase

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

"Every year our students get stronger, expand their vocabulary, improve their technique, and develop their artistry. Celebrate how far each of our students have come this year at Midland Festival Ballet's 2024 Showcase: Tchaikovsky's Musical Gifts! All of the music from this year’s Showcase is composed by Tchaikovsky, primarily from his first hit ballet score, The Sleeping Beauty. You’ll probably recognize most of the music; Disney’s animated film version actually uses Tchaikovsky’s score! In the original ballet, there are 6 fairies that bring gifts to the baby Princess Aurora. Each fairy has a variation, or solo, during which she bestows her gift. These musical gifts were the inspiration for this year’s showcase theme. To enhance their performing experience, each level has been learning about Tchaikovsky, the story, and even some of the original choreography. We’ve also enjoyed watching them use their imagination to personify these gifts with their movements."

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Live Music at Homemade Wines

Homemade Wines 400 N. Texas Avenue, Odessa, United States

Hop into Homemade Wines every Saturday from 7pm – 10pm and enjoy live music from a local artist! 

King 810

The Ector Theatre 500 N. Texas, Odessa, TX, United States

The Ector Theatre and J&B Productions are thrilled to announce that King 810 is scheduled to perform live at The Ector Theatre in Odessa, Texas, on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Featuring support from Heathen Sun, All Falls Down, Deface The Beauty, and Plagued South.

Midland Dance Academy Presents “Harmony”

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Delight in Midland Dance Academy's performance of "Harmony." Our dancers are portraying growth and are blossoming this first season. Come and enjoy this refreshing and original show as they perform in their Spring Concert!  

Art Tales: Monkey Not Ready for Kindergarten

Ellen Noel Art Museum 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, United States

PLEASE NOTE THAT: The Ellen Noel Art Museum is temporarily housed inside the UTPB Presidential Archives 

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Read to Felix

Ector County Library 321 W. 5th St., Odessa, TX, United States

Come to the 3rd Floor Children’s Department, grab a book and read to our special friend of the library Felix the Therapy Dog. He loves to be read to by any and all readers! ***Event Subject to Change***

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Art Talk

Ellen Noel Art Museum 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, United States

Spend the evening enjoying a discussion of selected work from the Ellen Noël Art Museum’s collection. Get the chance to view, analyze, and discuss an artwork using visual thinking strategies. · Free!

Ray Wylie Hubbard

The Ector Theatre 500 N. Texas, Odessa, TX, United States

When F. Scott Fitzgerald issued his classic conclusion that ‘There are no second acts in American lives,’ he failed to envision the career of legendary Texas troubadour Ray Wylie Hubbard. A willing conspirator in the late seventies Cosmic Cowboy revolt that ushered in the mythical Outlaw era, Hubbard was a catalyst in the cultural upheaval that led to the peaceful coexistence of Lone Star music enthusiasts who comprised each end of the social and political spectrum of that troubled time. In the stellar company of iconic colleagues like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Doug Sahm and Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard was an architect of the musical legacy that continues to inspire subsequent generations of up-and-coming Texas talent. Yes, Hubbard is a Texas singer-songwriter, complete with the classic trifurcated handle, fundamental chapter of the canon in his song catalog (“Redneck Mother”), and enough wild hairs in his past to qualify him as a legend. But along the way, his attention began to leave matters extraneous to his art and soul by the wayside and focus on the beauty and potential to be found in the blank canvas of, in his case, the yet to be written and recorded song. The […]