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Hans Graf was the music director of the orchestra from 2001 to 2013, the longest tenure of any Houston Symphony music director. In September 2009, the orchestra announced the conclusion of his tenure as music director at the end of the 2012–2013 season, upon which Graf took the title of conductor laureate of the orchestra. [5]
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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.
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.
Old and Lost Rivers is a short orchestral composition by the American composer Tobias Picker. [1]The work was commissioned to commemorate the sesquicentenary of Texas by the Houston Symphony, for which Picker had recently been appointed composer-in-residence.
Graf first conducted the Houston Symphony in 2000, and became its music director in 2001. He made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut with the Houston Symphony in 2006. [1] [2] At the conclusion of his Houston tenure in 2013, Graf took the title of Conductor Laureate. [3] He has been an artist-in-residence at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice ...
Georgianne Lundy (born October 18, 1954) is an American conductor and music educator. [1] [2] She founded the Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra and the William Grant Still String Quartet, both specializing in performing chamber music written by black composers, and she was the first African-American woman to conduct the Houston Symphony.
In 1913, Blitz founded and became the first music director of the Houston Symphony; he also directed activities of the Houston Treble Clef Club. Blitz's tenure in Houston lasted until 1916. From 1917 to 1922, he conducted the San Antonio Symphony. In San Antonio Blitz was also the director of the Chaminade Choral Society of the Tuesday Musical ...