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The orchestra continued to expand over the next several decades, and its first 52-week contract was signed in 1971. In 1946, the present-day Houston Symphony Chorus was founded as the Houston Chorale, and the chorus has performed with the Houston Symphony since then. [1] Leopold Stokowski was music director from 1955 to 1961.
Woman is an album by Burt Bacharach in collaboration with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, released in 1979 on A&M Records. [3] It was recorded live by Bacharach and the orchestra during a four-hour recording session on November 2, 1978, at Jones Hall in Houston, Texas. The project was originally conceived by Bacharach and Michael Woolcock.
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Duo Duel is a concerto for two percussionists and orchestra written in 2020 by the American composer Jennifer Higdon.The work was commissioned by the Houston Symphony for the percussionists Svet Stoyanov and Matthew Strauss, to whom it is dedicated.
Collage: A Concerto for Four Horns and Orchestra is a concerto for four horns and orchestra by the American composer James Horner.The piece was commissioned by the Houston Symphony and the International Horn Society and was premiered on March 27, 2015, at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Officially completed on October 2, 1966, at the cost of $7.4 million, it is named after Jesse H. Jones, a former United States Secretary of Commerce and Houstonian. [3] ( For the Hall's opening concert a special work was commissioned of the American composer Alan Hovhaness entitled 'Ode to the Temple of Sound'). [4]
Before taking up the Houston post, he and the orchestra recorded Dvořák's Seventh Symphony. His final contract extension with the Houston Symphony was until the 2021–2022 season. [ 10 ] Orozco-Estrada concluded his Houston tenure at the close of the 2021–2022 season.