The Review Is In

Goose bumps from blastoff to Orbit: Houston Symphony space show somehow exceeds the buzz

By Joel Luks

02.20.12 | 10:34 am

Standing motionless and transfixed, maestro Giancarlo Guerrero let the sound of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring dissipate into the abyss that is Jones Hall before anyone in the audience ...

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The Houston Symphony Ball's Scheherazade theme opened the evening to magical wonders

By Shelby Hodge

03.27.11 | 6:55 pm

It has been a momentous year for the Houston Symphony, as symphony society president Bobby Tudor noted at Friday night's symphony ball. With a stupendous United Kingdom tour of The Planets ...

Moving Musical Pictures

Science and art meet and mingle at the Houston Symphony with Orbit - An HD Odyssey

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By Promoted Series Correspondent

03.01.11 | 11:06 am

In September of 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft launched into space carrying a Golden Record — made of gold-plated copper and encased in aluminum — conveying evidence of life ...

Power of The Force helps too

Houston Symphony's The Planets goes Lady Gaga, adds second summer show

By Chris Baldwin

07.07.10 | 6:27 pm

There are two acts in Houston that require a second show these days — Lady Gaga and the Houston Symphony's The Planets. Like the Gaga one before them, the Symphony's leadership is ...

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CBS will showcase Houston Symphony's The Planets on morning show

By Clifford Pugh

04.17.10 | 10:00 am

The Houston Symphony just got word that CBS News Sunday Morning will showcase its production of The Planets — An HD Odyssey tomorrow on the popular weekend show (8 a.m., Channel 11) ...

A Universal Success

Houston Symphony hops the pond with Planets

By Caroline Gallay

02.23.10 | 10:36 am

After stellar reviews in New York, The Houston Symphony is taking The Planets — An HD Odyssey across the pond with a tour of seven cities in the United Kingdom this fall. It's a fitti ...

Review of Carnegie Hall performance

N.Y. Times praises Houston Symphony's Planets

By Clifford Pugh

01.30.10 | 7:27 am

The Houston Symphony performance of The Planets — an HD Odyssey got a lot of attention from the New York Times. Reviewer Anthony Tommasani called the performance at Carnegie Ha ...

The CultureMap Review

Precise, powerful Planets is an earful — and an eyeful

By William Albright

01.22.10 | 6:28 am

IMAX and Avatar probably have nothing to worry about, but even without 3D technology The Planets—An HD Odyssey is quite an eyeful. The Houston Symphony gave the piece its wor ...

Five Questions

Duncan Copp reaches for the stars — and The Planets

By Clifford Pugh

01.21.10 | 8:51 am

On April 12, 1981, 11-year-old Duncan Copp watched the first-ever space shuttle launch on a tiny black-and-white television with his classmates, because that's all his school in southwest ...

Sneak Preview

Out-of-this-world music

By Clifford Pugh

11.10.09 | 9:50 pm

The Houston Symphony isn't scheduled to publicly perform Gustav Holst's The Planets -  An HD Odyssey until January. But a select group of supporters got a sneak preview Tuesday ni ...