2009-2010 Season

The Planets - An HD Odyssey
January 21-24, 2010
World Premiere! Created by the Houston Symphony and filmmaker Duncan Copp, featuring state-of-the-art, high definition images from NASA to accompany Holst's exciting, cosmic score.

Red Carpet Oscar Party
February 5- 7, 2010
February means the Academy Awards^®! Walk the red carpet into Jones Hall in your Oscar^® Night best for an evening of lights, glitz and glamour and Oscar-winning blockbusters music from Lawrence of Arabia, Exodus, Ben Hur and Titanic - as well as 2010 Oscar hopefuls.

Michael Cavanaugh Sings Billy Joel and More
February 26-28, 2010
Star of Broadway's Movin' Out will perform hits like "Uptown Girl", "Piano Man" and more.

Mozart's Requiem
March 5-7, 2010
Hans Graf served as music director of the Mozarteum Orchester in Salzburg for a decade. Hear this exquisite Mozart interpreter conduct Mozart's final and possibly most profound statement.

Eschenbach and Lang Lang
April 14, 2010
Christoph Eschenbach returns to Houston for the first time in eight years, joined by Lang Lang, heralded as the "hottest artist on the classical music planet" by the New York Times.

Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique
April 22-25, 2010
Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, an "Episode in the Life of an Artist," careens from despair through passion to a psychedelic vision.

Rite of Spring and "Rach 3"
May 21-23, 2010
Stravinsky plunges you into brutal excitement through pulsing, ritualistic repetition.