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Orchestral Music

  • Film

    April 19, 2012

    The Problem with Romance

    Lovers try to stay above water in The Deep Blue Sea.

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2012

    Petrouchka and Beethoven

    Lovers try to stay above water in The Deep Blue Sea.

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2012

    Hahn & Enigma Variations

    Lovers try to stay above water in The Deep Blue Sea.

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2012

    Joshua Bell

    Lovers try to stay above water in The Deep Blue Sea.

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    The Six Degrees of Joshua Bell

    Never play Six Degrees with Joshua Bell. He's got us all beat. Not only has he performed with just about every contemporary classical artist there is out there, he's also recorded with pop musicians such as Sting and Regina Spektor. Even if we go back a couple of centuries, Bell's got a direct lin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2012

    Rach Fest! 1 - Rach 3

    Never play Six Degrees with Joshua Bell. He's got us all beat. Not only has he performed with just about every contemporary classical artist there is out there, he's also recorded with pop musicians such as Sting and Regina Spektor. Even if we go back a couple of centuries, Bell's got a direct lin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 29, 2011

    Houston Symphony on New Year's Eve

    Never play Six Degrees with Joshua Bell. He's got us all beat. Not only has he performed with just about every contemporary classical artist there is out there, he's also recorded with pop musicians such as Sting and Regina Spektor. Even if we go back a couple of centuries, Bell's got a direct lin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 17, 2011

    Emanuel Ax plus Tchaikovsky 3

    Never play Six Degrees with Joshua Bell. He's got us all beat. Not only has he performed with just about every contemporary classical artist there is out there, he's also recorded with pop musicians such as Sting and Regina Spektor. Even if we go back a couple of centuries, Bell's got a direct lin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 6, 2011

    LA Phil LIVE — Dudamel Conducts Beethoven

    Never play Six Degrees with Joshua Bell. He's got us all beat. Not only has he performed with just about every contemporary classical artist there is out there, he's also recorded with pop musicians such as Sting and Regina Spektor. Even if we go back a couple of centuries, Bell's got a direct lin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2010

    Houston Symphony on New Year’s Eve at the Centrum

    Never play Six Degrees with Joshua Bell. He's got us all beat. Not only has he performed with just about every contemporary classical artist there is out there, he's also recorded with pop musicians such as Sting and Regina Spektor. Even if we go back a couple of centuries, Bell's got a direct lin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2010

    Pictures at an Exhibition

    Never play Six Degrees with Joshua Bell. He's got us all beat. Not only has he performed with just about every contemporary classical artist there is out there, he's also recorded with pop musicians such as Sting and Regina Spektor. Even if we go back a couple of centuries, Bell's got a direct lin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2010

    Mercury Baroque: Classical in the Raw

    The period orchestra makes a point of looking forward to the classical era

  • Calendar

    February 25, 2010

    Chopin's 200th Birthday Celebration

    The Golka brothers cause a Chopin-demonium

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2010

    Seymour Lipkin

    The Beethoven master gives us a night of - duh - Beethoven

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Program Notes: Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor

    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809-1847​Here at Rocks Off, we enjoy album covers with turds on them and making fun of R. Kelly as much as the next guy. And just wait until Chris Brown gets here next weekend. But there's a lot more to music than that. In a possibly fruitless effort to c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2009

    Star Spangled Salute

    The Houston Symphony brings out the big guns

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009
  • Music

    November 6, 2008

    Fund-raiser Blues

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008
  • Calendar

    September 11, 2008

    New World Symphony

    The Houston Symphony gives American composers their due

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2008

    Joyce Yang

    The Society for the Performing Arts presents a piano prodigy in her Houston recital debut

  • Calendar

    February 21, 2008

    Gershwin Glam

    The Houston Ballet pays homage to Ira’s little brother

  • Calendar

    November 8, 2007

    UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra

    Conductor Charles Dutoit and pianist Martha Argerich join the international youth orchestra for a world tour

  • Calendar

    September 20, 2007

    Houston Ballet’s The Four Seasons

    Fall comes alive with new choreography by Stanton Welch

  • Calendar

    September 6, 2007
  • Music

    July 19, 2007

    Been a Long Time

    But the Houston Symphony Wants to "Rock and Roll"

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2007

    Aching for Aiken

    But the Houston Symphony Wants to "Rock and Roll"

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2007

    Aching for Aiken

    But the Houston Symphony Wants to "Rock and Roll"

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2007

    Playbill: Jim Brickman

    But the Houston Symphony Wants to "Rock and Roll"

  • Music

    October 26, 2006

    A Whole Other Magic

    Dianne Reeves's good luck story

  • Music

    August 31, 2006

    Patti Austin

    Friday, September 1, through Sunday, September 3, at Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana, 713-224-7575

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2004

    Just Say Yes

    People in the upper tax brackets can afford to ignore social mores

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    Going Baroque

    Musicians and management of the Houston Symphony battle over a budget that won’t stay in the black

  • Music

    April 5, 2001

    A Beat Ahead

    OrchestraX's quick success has been its blessing, and its curse

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    Choking on the Pit?

    Houston Symphony musicians rate the conductors who dare to replace Eschenbach on the podium

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    Can the Band Play On?

    The Houston Symphony opens its new season without a music director, an executive director or a clear vision for the future. Only one thing appears certain: The post-Eschenbach era is going to look a lot different.

  • Culture

    June 15, 2000
  • Calendar

    May 25, 2000
  • Calendar

    March 9, 2000

    The Axman Cometh

    (Evelyn Glennie )

  • Calendar

    November 19, 1998

    Kid Wonder

    (Evelyn Glennie )

  • Culture

    September 3, 1998

    Made in the USA

    Shaham shines in a salute to American Composers

  • Music

    August 27, 1998

    Generation Exceptional

    Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

  • News

    December 11, 1997

    Perfect Pitch

    John Axelrod has a plan to make classical music hip--and himself hot

  • Music

    October 2, 1997

    Static

    John Axelrod has a plan to make classical music hip--and himself hot

  • Culture

    September 11, 1997

    A Partial Eclipse

    John Axelrod has a plan to make classical music hip--and himself hot

  • Music

    May 15, 1997

    Piano Man

    Can Leif Ove Andsnes be both a keyboard wizard and an average guy?

  • Music

    July 4, 1996

    Big Noise

    Can Leif Ove Andsnes be both a keyboard wizard and an average guy?

  • Culture

    June 1, 1995

    Songs and Dance

    Can Leif Ove Andsnes be both a keyboard wizard and an average guy?

  • Calendar

    November 3, 1994

    Press Picks

    Can Leif Ove Andsnes be both a keyboard wizard and an average guy?

  • Music

    December 23, 1993

    An American Conductor

    Michael Tilson Thomas leads the Houston Symphony in a neglected Bernstein and an overlooked Gershwin

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