Robert Bridges, 1957 – 2009
Robert Stanley Bridges, a Houston Ballet Orchestra violist for more than 20 years and the company’s music librarian for a decade, died Dec. 19 after a long battle with cancer. According to a friend,...
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Sasha Gusov Pianist Kirill Gerstein, winner of the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award, performs Jan. 15-17 with the Houston Symphony. Is Houston Chronicle critic Everett Evans the new Ed McMahon? Probably not....
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Da Zhen Wu Adam Wu won the Houston Symphony’s Concerto Competition playing Lalo’s Symphonie Espanole. The Houston Symphony invited a group of student musicians last weekend to duke it out for cash...
View ArticleArt Palace bets its future on Houston
Houston’s art galleries have weathered the current economy — not to mention the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, which blew into town just as the 2008 exhibition season was starting — remarkably well....
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Tara Dooley The Houston Symphony performs Holst below an image of Saturn. The photo was taken during a dress rehearsal of The Planets – An HD Odyssey. It’s been a while – a long while, if ever – that...
View ArticleAn 18th-century painting’s strange legal limbo
Joanne King Herring’s role in fueling a covert war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, portrayed in the film Charlie Wilson’s War, is as good a sign as any that the well-known Houstonian doesn’t shy away from...
View ArticleBeaming at the Ballet
The 20-foot “final beam” now atop Houston Ballet’s new Center for Dance at 601 Preston had a lot riding on it yesterday as it was hoisted into place. GARY FOUNTAIN PHOTOS: FOR THE CHRONICLE Lynn Wyatt...
View ArticleWith the Greatest of Ease
Cirque de la Symphonie There’s violin playing. And then there is violin playing while flying through the air with the greatest of ease. Janice Martin does both with the Houston Symphony this weekend....
View ArticleYoung Talent in Hogg Competition
Each year a group of young energetic classical musicians arrives in town for a concerto showdown also known as the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition. Courtesy Houston Symphony Most listeners expect...
View ArticleBocelli in Houston
The Houston Symphony is crossing over. Courtesy the Houston Symphony Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform with the Houston Symphony in December. Musically, the orchestra announced today that it...
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