By Susan Latimer
Published: January 18, 2005 PrintEmail
HOUSTON (January 18, 2005) – On Sunday, February 13, at 5 p.m., the Doctors Orchestra of Houston (www.DoctorsOrchestraHouston.org) will perform its Valentine’s concert program titled Love is in the Air, benefiting Hadassah, a Jewish charity that focuses on women’s Health. The concert, held in the Cullen Theater at the Wortham Center, will feature Houston’s leading Mariachi band, Mariachi Los Gallitos. The program will feature a collection of romantic favorites including Moon River, My Funny Valentine, Embraceable You, April in Paris and other selections by George Gershwin, Leroy Anderson and Richard Rogers.
The Doctors Orchestra is a community orchestra made up of 85 physicians, dentists, medical students, biomedical scientists and other allied health professionals as well as music lovers. The Orchestra sponsored by TIAA-CREF, one of the country’s largest financial service providers, which is dedicated to helping ensure the financial future of people in the medical, academic and cultural fields, whose life work advances the greater good. With this support, the Doctors Orchestra raises funds for medical charities, like this fall concert’s beneficiary, Hadassah.
Hadassah’s Women’s Health program brings a focus on wellness to the community by providing substantive educational information on exercise, nutrition, prevention and early detection of diseases that affect women. This program empowers women by providing them with the knowledge necessary to make appropriate and informed medical decisions for themselves and their families, thus resulting in improved health care.
Tickets are available online at www.DoctorsOrchestraHouston.org or at the door. There are $10 and $20 seats available. For more information call 832.202.2882.
TIAA-CREF is a national financial services group of companies and the leading provider of retirement security in the academic, medical and cultural fields. With more than $320 billion in combined assets under management (6/30/04), TIAA-CREF ranks 68th on FORTUNE magazine's list of largest companies (April 2004). Further information can be found at http://www.tiaa-cref.org
