
February 16, 2012 We preview the World Première of the second concert-film in the Houston Symphony’s HD Odyssey series! Astronomer and film-maker, Duncan Copp, describes the video he has assembled from NASA's high-definition digital images of Earth, and guest conductor, Giancarlo Guerrero [pictured], talks about the music that the Symphony will perform live to accompany the film, including Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra. > click here for more > podcast > download |
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February 9, 2012 We chat with Czech conductor, Jakub Hrusa, who leads the Houston Symphony and Chorus this weekend in a Czech-inspired, folk-flavored program that includes works by Dvorák, Borodin and Janácek. > click here for more > podcast > download |
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February 2, 2012 Music Director Hans Graf describes the many musical joys to be discovered by players and audience members alike when he and the Houston Symphony present Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9, this evening at downtown Houston’s Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. > click here for more > podcast > download |
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January 18, 2012 Pianist Kirill Gerstein and Music Director Hans Graf look ahead to the final concert of the Houston Symphony’s 2012 Rachmaninoff Festival. That concluding RachFest program features the composer’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Symphony No. 3, coming up Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at Jones Hall. > click here for more > podcast > download |
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January 13, 2012 Pianist Kirill Gerstein [pictured] and Music Director Hans Graf preview the second weekend of RachFest, the Houston Symphony’s total immersion into the piano concertos and symphonic works of Russian master, Sergei Rachmaninoff! The next program plunges into the depths of his Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 and his tone-poem, Isle of the Dead, January 13 - 15 at Jones Hall. > click here for more > podcast > download |
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