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  2. Houston Symphony - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Category : Music commissioned by the Houston Symphony

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  4. Woman (Burt Bacharach album) - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Old and Lost Rivers - Wikipedia

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    The work was composed in the spring of 1986 and was given its world premiere by the Houston Symphony under the conductor Sergiu Comissiona in Jones Hall, Houston on May 9, 1986. Later that year, Picker adapted the work for solo piano as a birthday present for the pianist Ursula Oppens ; this rendition of the work was premiered by Oppens at ...

  6. Collage (Horner) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Hans Graf - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Julien Paul Blitz - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Christoph Eschenbach - Wikipedia

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    From 2000 to 2010, Eschenbach was music director of the Orchestre de Paris. [6] In the United States, Eschenbach was music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1999. The orchestra toured Japan and Europe under his tenure as well made several recordings with Koch International Classics and RCA.