HOUSTON (March 10, 2017) – Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada will lead the Houston Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 7 at 8 p.m. March 24-25 and 2:30 p.m. March 26 at Jones Hall. The program marks the completion of the orchestra’s three-season Beethoven symphony cycle. Inspired by his love of nature, Beethoven’s … Continued
HOUSTON (March 9, 2017) – The Houston Symphony announced today that Tony Award winner and three-time Emmy Award nominee Phylicia Rashad will join the cast of its new semi-staged, concert version of Beethoven’s Fidelio, the composer’s only opera, March 31 and April 2. Houston-native Rashad joins the orchestra and Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada as a … Continued
HOUSTON (March 6, 2017) – Pink Martini, the internationally-celebrated “little orchestra” that blurs the barriers between classical, Latin, jazz and classic pop music, returns to the Houston Symphony with special guest Ari Shapiro, co-host of National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, at 8 p.m. March 17-18 and 7:30 p.m. March 19. Led by Principal POPS … Continued
HOUSTON (March 2, 2017) – Multiplatinum-selling singer, songwriter and producer Ben Folds will join the Houston Symphony in a one-night-only performance of his acclaimed Piano Concerto and alternative-pop hits at 7:30 p.m. March 16, 2017. Folds’ one-night event features a performance of his three-movement Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, which draws on many recognizable classical … Continued
HOUSTON (March 1, 2017) – The Houston Symphony, in collaboration with Dutch music label Pentatone, announced today the international release of its most recent recording, which features Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) and select Slavonic Dances. The recording is the third and final in a mini-series highlighting Dvorák’s last four symphonies. Dvorak’s … Continued
HOUSTON (Feb. 24, 2017) – Fabien Gabel, music director of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, will lead the Houston Symphony and Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter during Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique at 8 p.m. March 9 and 11 and 2:30 p.m. March 12. The program will include Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides and Piano Concerto No. 1 and will conclude with … Continued