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Weekend Arts Pix
Just because it’s 4th of July weekend doesn’t mean you don’t have arts pix to pick from.
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY
‘Henry V.’
Shakespeare’s history play about England’s most storied warrior king is reconceived as a one-man play by actor and Austin Chronicle arts editor Robert Faires. Following Shakespeare’s instructions that the audience just imagine the courts, Faires takes the audience from Henry’s throne across the English Channel into the French court, through a fearful war and into one of the most charming courtship scenes in Shakespeare’s oeuvre. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 5 p.m. Sundays through July 25. Special Fourth of July performance at 5 p.m. with champagne and sparklers. Off Center, 2211 Hidalgo St. $15. www.rudemechs.com.
FRIDAY AND SUNDAY
Austin Chamber Music Festival.
On Friday night take in Jupiter String Quartet with Austin pianist Michelle Schumann, as they play Haydn, Shostakovich and Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E Flat. On Sunday afternoon, it’s the famed Mendelssohn Piano Trio celebrating its namesake’s 200th birthday with the composer’s Piano Trio in D Minor and Piano Trio in C Minor. 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Bates Recital Hall, UT School of Music, 2350 Robert Dedman Drive. $25. www.austinchambermusic.org.
SATURDAY
‘1812 Overture.’ The Invincible Czars —
Austin’s most inventive interpreters of Russian classical music — bring their latest to the city: Tchaikovsky’s ‘1812 Overture’ in a charging guitar-centered arrangement. The Czars also will play John Philip Sousa’s ‘Noble of the Mystic Shrine.’ Rebecca Havemeyer and Little Stolen Moments are the opening acts. And attendees are encouraged to bicycle to the event and decorate their bikes. Austin’s Yellow Bike Project will release a fleet of their famous yellow bikes for the public to use to ride to the evening’s fireworks on Auditorium Shores. 1 p.m. Saturday. Wooldridge Square Park, 900 Guadalupe St, Free. www.invincibleczars.com.
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