Lone Star College-Kingwood Music

02/25/2026

Current Campus Map!
We are Building 8, and the closest parking lot is Student Parking G.
I will update this with the legend that is beneath the map.

02/23/2026

Like Gardening? Have some time on Wednesday? See below!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DU7A1qSjO12/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

02/20/2026

First Recital of the semester is Monday at 12:30 pm in the MUS Recital Hall. It is a taste of things to come. Do not be late, or you will miss it.

02/04/2026

Don't miss this amazing event! Tickets are available at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/lone-star-college-kingwood-music/stellar-evening-2026

12/01/2025

Concert Choir & EVoK: Holiday Concert
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
7:30 PM, Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
2929 Woodland Hills Dr, Kingwood, TX
FREE Admission!

11/20/2025

Two different ways these men affected the future of jazz.

John Coltrane learned that the hard way that Miles didn’t hand out compliments easily...

If you played in his band, you learned through pressure, silence, and the occasional brutal one-liner.

By 1960, Coltrane’s solos had become legendary — long, searching, unstoppable streams of sound. He could stretch a single tune for 20 minutes without repeating himself. For some listeners it was hypnotic; for others, exhausting.

One night after a show, Coltrane admitted to Miles that he didn’t know how to stop.

“I start playing,” he said, “and I just can’t figure out where to end.”

Miles, deadpan as ever, replied: “Take the horn out of your mouth"

That was it. Lesson over.

Behind the humour was something deeper — two completely different approaches to creativity. Miles believed in space, in the power of silence between notes. Coltrane was obsessed with searching, following each phrase until it reached its spiritual limit.

The tension between those ideas made their music together so explosive. You can hear it on Kind of Blue: Miles playing short, perfectly placed phrases; Coltrane spiralling outward in search of something infinite.

By the time Coltrane left Miles’s group later that year, he’d already begun to map out a new sound. He formed his own quartet, recorded My Favorite Things, and by 1965 released A Love Supreme — a record that turned jazz into prayer.

That one exchange — half joke, half philosophy — summed up their difference. Miles wanted each note to mean more. Coltrane wanted to find all the notes that could exist.

And somehow, both were right.

The story has survived because it captures a universal truth about art: the balance between saying too little and saying too much.

Miles’ timing and restraint shaped modern jazz. Coltrane’s intensity and devotion expanded it into something spiritual.

Two artists, one simple piece of advice — and two completely different roads that changed music forever.

[📸 Miles Davis: William Gottlieb, public domain // John Coltrane: Distributed by Impulse! Records, Public domain, both via Wikimedia Commons]

11/04/2025

The Kingwood Big Band: Jazz Journey with Horace Alexander Young
Friday, November 7, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Strawbridge United Methodist Church, Kingwood TX
www.LHMAS.org for tickets and information

10/31/2025

Today, let's enjoy a guitar performance!

10/18/2025

10/07/2025

MPH Recital on Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:30 pm in MUS Recital Hall - Free! Please come and listen to several of our students perform for you. For more details, please email us at [email protected]

09/02/2025

Fall 2025 Visual & Performing Arts Events Quicksheet
There are more events at LHMAS.org & KingwoodPops.org

www.lonestar.edu/kcmusic will have current event updates!