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Houston Symphony Goes Ga-Ga For Gershwin

By Sam Byrd
Feb 1, 2024

Houston Symphony is kicking off the month of love with Jazz, Love & Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody In Blue, featuring guest performers Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Catherine Russell and the world-renowned Marcus Roberts Trio.
The "F" Stands For Fantastic In Gershwin's Concerto In F

By Sam Byrd
Sep 30, 2022

The sounds of past and present are on the menu for Houston Symphony’s Concerto in F, composed by George Gershwin. Other American composers like Shawn Okpebholo, Adolphus Hailstork and Samuel Barber will round out this weekend’s performance set list at Jones Hall.
Capsule Stage Reviews: The Last 5 Years, Paradise Hotel, Stairway to Paradise: The Young George Gershwin

By D. L. Groover and Jim Tommaney
Feb 16, 2011

The Last 5 Years Directed by Jimmy Phillips with pace and deftness, and presented by Mildred's Umbrella Theater, this is an ambitious two-character musical that combines some original staging with a narrative device that threatens to sink the ship. It is a love story where boy meets girl, and then, as...
Rhapsody in Blue

The Houston Symphony welcomes guest pianist Kirill Gerstein as it tackles an American classic

By Julia Ramey
Jan 14, 2010

On a train to Boston in early 1924, George Gershwin came up with the main themes and movements of his classic Rhapsody in Blue. “I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our blues, our metropolitan...
Rhapsody in Blue

The Houston Symphony welcomes guest pianist Kirill Gerstein as it tackles an American classic

By Julia Ramey
Jan 14, 2010

On a train to Boston in early 1924, George Gershwin came up with the main themes and movements of his classic Rhapsody in Blue. "I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our blues, our metropolitan...
Herb Keyser: Geniuses of American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists

Get the inside dish on Broadway’s masters

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Oct 22, 2009

Being accepted into medical school temporarily interrupted Herb Keyser’s career in show business. Good thing for musical theater fans, he found his way back. Keyser will be discussing and signing copies of his latest book, Geniuses of American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists, today. The book includes 28 insider...
It's All Good at Gershwin Glam

Three-Course Feast from the Houston Ballet

By Marene Gustin
Feb 27, 2008

You have to love the way Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch puts together a repertory evening. It's like a fine meal. At the recent Gershwin Glam rep, which opened last Thursday night at the Wortham, audiences feasted on a delightful appetizer, George Balanchine's Serenade; a brilliant, meaty entrée, Christopher...
Gershwin Glam

The Houston Ballet pays homage to Ira’s little brother

By Julia Ramey
Feb 21, 2008

The Houston Ballet kicks it up a notch today with Gershwin Glam, a program featuring The Core, a new work by Stanton Welch that’s an ode to George Gershwin and his main stage, New York City. Performers in ‘40s attire (think flirty skirts and lots of leg) will dance to...
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Oct 21, 2004

Thursday, October 21 As an Indian comic, Paul Varghese is doing his best to shatter stereotypes, though he's well aware they exist. "I'm taking salsa dancing lessons," he deadpans. "I wanna be known as the only Arabic-looking guy who can dance without having to hold a rifle over his head."...
The Axman Cometh

By Paul J. MacArthur
Mar 9, 2000

When Emanuel Ax asked John Adams to write a concerto for him, the composer quickly agreed. After all, since winning the first Arthur Rubenstein International Piano Competition in 1974 at the age of 24, Ax has been one of the most sought-after soloists on the circuit. Known for his empathetic...
Swing in Time

OrchestraX salutes the 1920s and the music of Gershwin and Ellington

By Cynthia Greenwood
May 13, 1999

It's hard to imagine Jelly Roll Morton and Hot Lips Page inspiring Marilyn Manson-style outrage with their syncopated tunes. Even more amazing, a group of watchdogs in Illinois called the Vigilance Association printed a 1922 report saying jazz had corrupted a thousand young Chicago girls. At the same time, a...
Herbie Hancock Times Six

By Paul J. MacArthur
Dec 24, 1998

The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions (Blue Note) Sextant (Columbia Legacy) Thrust (Columbia Legacy) Town Hall Concert (Blue Note) Return of the Headhunters (Verve) Gershwin's World (Verve) Herbie Hancock, the most influential jazz pianist to emerge since Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, has had a career filled with musical landmarks...
Made in the USA

Shaham shines in a salute to American Composers

By Cynthia Greenwood
Sep 3, 1998

The Houston Symphony program notes billed last Friday night's Woodlands concert as An American Celebration. In honor of Leonard Bernstein's 80th and George Gershwin's 102nd birthday anniversaries, there were free cupcakes for everyone in the Woodlands Plaza. A nice little public-relations touch. But after the sun went down and everyone...
Generation Exceptional

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

By Clay McNear
Aug 27, 1998

"We had a rule: absolutely no classical music whatsoever." Orli Shaham laughs at the memory -- and its obvious irony. The young musician is now a mature married woman at 22, and she's recalling the nuptial ceremony, held more than a month ago in her homeland of Israel. Orli's a...
Fine Times On Catfish Row

HGO revives, and reinvents, a pleasing Porgy and Bess

By Bruce Guynn
Feb 2, 1995

In 1976, Houston Grand Opera gave new life to George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess when it staged the first full-scale version of the work in 40 years. Afterward, the opera gained increasing acceptance in the standard repertoire. Now, HGO has come up with a revisionist interpretation of Gershwin's classic that...

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