At Last! A Tribute to Etta James

At Last! A Tribute to Etta James

Celebrate one of the most dynamic vocalists of all time, the incomparable Etta James. Josh Sklair, Etta’s longtime friend and guitarist, joins vocalist Crystal Monee Hall and the Symphony for a celebration of this gospel prodigy’s iconic debut studio album, At...
Eschenbach Conducts Bruckner 8

Eschenbach Conducts Bruckner 8

Bruckner wrote symphonies at a size and scale unsurpassed to this day. Immerse yourself in the soaring majesty and sonic power of his monumental Symphony No. 8—so epic it’s the only thing on the program. World-renowned Bruckner master and former Houston Symphony Music...
Eschenbach Conducts Bruckner 8

Eschenbach Conducts Bruckner 8

Bruckner wrote symphonies at a size and scale unsurpassed to this day. Immerse yourself in the soaring majesty and sonic power of his monumental Symphony No. 8—so epic it’s the only thing on the program. World-renowned Bruckner master and former Houston Symphony Music...
Perlman Conducts Tchaikovsky 5

Perlman Conducts Tchaikovsky 5

No composer mines the depths of the human experience more fearlessly or wholeheartedly than Tchaikovsky, and his beloved Fifth Symphony surges with unbridled passion, candid emotion, and balletic grace on its journey from darkness to light. Houston Symphony Artistic...
Perlman Conducts Tchaikovsky 5

Perlman Conducts Tchaikovsky 5

No composer mines the depths of the human experience more fearlessly or wholeheartedly than Tchaikovsky, and his beloved Fifth Symphony surges with unbridled passion, candid emotion, and balletic grace on its journey from darkness to light. Houston Symphony Artistic...
Perlman Conducts Tchaikovsky 5

Perlman Conducts Tchaikovsky 5

No composer mines the depths of the human experience more fearlessly or wholeheartedly than Tchaikovsky, and his beloved Fifth Symphony surges with unbridled passion, candid emotion, and balletic grace on its journey from darkness to light. Houston Symphony Artistic...
Get Up and Dance!

Get Up and Dance!

What is it about music that makes us want to move and dance? In this concert, we’ll explore different dance rhythms that come from all around the world. Get ready to move, shake, wiggle, and twirl—Jones Hall is your dance floor!
Get Up and Dance!

Get Up and Dance!

What is it about music that makes us want to move and dance? In this concert, we’ll explore different dance rhythms that come from all around the world. Get ready to move, shake, wiggle, and twirl—Jones Hall is your dance floor!
Jazz, Love and Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody in Blue

Jazz, Love and Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody in Blue

Roberts Trio and Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Catherine Russell (“a voice that wails like a horn and whispers like a snake in the Garden of Eden”—NPR) join the Houston Symphony for virtuoso jazz and classic Gershwin songs, including a love song for your...
Jazz, Love and Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody in Blue

Jazz, Love and Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody in Blue

Roberts Trio and Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Catherine Russell (“a voice that wails like a horn and whispers like a snake in the Garden of Eden”—NPR) join the Houston Symphony for virtuoso jazz and classic Gershwin songs, including a love song for your...
Jazz, Love and Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody in Blue

Jazz, Love and Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody in Blue

Roberts Trio and Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Catherine Russell (“a voice that wails like a horn and whispers like a snake in the Garden of Eden”—NPR) join the Houston Symphony for virtuoso jazz and classic Gershwin songs, including a love song for your...
Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem

Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem

Music Director Juraj Valcuha leads Brahms’s extraordinary A German Requiem. Written during a time of personal grief for Brahms, the Requiem offers music of time-altering beauty as a balm of comfort, peace, and uplifting hope to those experiencing grief and loss. The...
Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach

Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach

“Breathtakingly brilliant pianist” (Gramophone) Víkingur Ólafsson dazzles in a performance of Bach’s endlessly inventive Goldberg Variations. “Bach at the keyboard has rarely sounded so fresh, expressive, and joyous” (Sunday Times Culture).
Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem

Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem

Music Director Juraj Valcuha leads Brahms’s extraordinary A German Requiem. Written during a time of personal grief for Brahms, the Requiem offers music of time-altering beauty as a balm of comfort, peace, and uplifting hope to those experiencing grief and loss. The...
Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem

Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem

Music Director Juraj Valcuha leads Brahms’s extraordinary A German Requiem. Written during a time of personal grief for Brahms, the Requiem offers music of time-altering beauty as a balm of comfort, peace, and uplifting hope to those experiencing grief and loss. The...
Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony + Yoonshin Song

Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony + Yoonshin Song

Travel kindles creativity and self-discovery, and when composer Felix Mendelssohn toured Scotland at the age of 20, his experiences inspired a shining jewel of a memento in the joyful and invigorating Scottish Symphony. One of the great concertos of the 20th century,...
Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony + Yoonshin Song

Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony + Yoonshin Song

Travel kindles creativity and self-discovery, and when composer Felix Mendelssohn toured Scotland at the age of 20, his experiences inspired a shining jewel of a memento in the joyful and invigorating Scottish Symphony. One of the great concertos of the 20th century,...
Swingin’ Sinatra: A New Year’s Celebration

Swingin’ Sinatra: A New Year’s Celebration

Swing into the New Year as crooner Tony DeSare and the Houston Symphony Big Band perform showstopping Sinatra standards like “Come Fly with Me,” “New York, New York,” and “Fly Me to the Moon,” along with popular tunes from the golden age of Big Band and...
Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony + Yoonshin Song

Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony + Yoonshin Song

Travel kindles creativity and self-discovery, and when composer Felix Mendelssohn toured Scotland at the age of 20, his experiences inspired a shining jewel of a memento in the joyful and invigorating Scottish Symphony. One of the great concertos of the 20th century,...
Swingin’ Sinatra: A New Year’s Celebration

Swingin’ Sinatra: A New Year’s Celebration

Swing into the New Year as crooner Tony DeSare and the Houston Symphony Big Band perform showstopping Sinatra standards like “Come Fly with Me,” “New York, New York,” and “Fly Me to the Moon,” along with popular tunes from the golden age of Big Band and...