EAST COAST STORMS THREATENED VALENTINE’S DAY CONCERT How the Houston Symphony Saved Valentine’s Day in Less than 24 Hours By Glenn Taylor, Chief Marketing Officer, Houston Symphony Just when it seemed that the Houston Symphony audience for acclaimed vocalist Linda Eder would be broken-hearted on Valentine’s Day due to Eder’s inability to travel to Houston, … Continued
Christian Wiggs is a seventeen year old musician from Lake Jackson, Texas, where he attends Brazoswood High School. He was introduced to music at a very young age through his musically oriented family. By the age of four, he had already begun singing and acting in his local theater, Brazosport Center Stages. He has participated … Continued
Thirteen musicians, ranging in age from 13 through 18, competed in the Houston Symphony League Concerto Competition on January 4, 2014. These exceptionally talented students represented violin, viola, cello, piano, flute, clarinet and horn. Our three judges hailed from NYC, Boulder, CO and Boise, ID. These musicians performed an entire concerto by memory — a … Continued
In this unprecedented multimedia event, the Houston Symphony will perform a back-to-back lineup of the first two installments in the HD Odyssey film series – The Planets and The Earth (formerly Orbit). See striking images in The Earth, shown on a giant screen above the orchestra, taken from NASA’s missions to Earth’s orbit, and accompanied … Continued
Cameron Symphony Explorer Concerts Oct 7, 8, 29 and Nov 13, 2013 “That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the Earth.” These were the powerful words spoken by Abraham Lincoln in his renowned … Continued
By Nicholas McGegan, conductor Please don’t worry. This is not a piece about my religious beliefs (or non-beliefs) or a wish for a full immersion baptism (certainly not if the water is too cold) but merely a very personal history of Handel’s Messiah over the forty plus years that I have performed around the world. … Continued