Houston Symphony 1993-1994

[Yi Zhao]

Houston Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director

1993-1994 Season Schedule

(All concerts are held in Jones Hall in downtown Houston. Saturday and Monday
concerts start at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday concerts start at 2:30 p.m.)

Sept. 11: Special Opening Night Concert.
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor;
Yo-Yo Ma, cello.

Smetana - The Moldau from Ma Vlast
Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Dvorak - Cello Concerto

Sept. 18-20:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor:
Horaoio Gutierrez, piano.

Ives - Variations on America
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2
Schumann - Symphony No. 3, Rhenish

Sept. 25-21:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor;
Christiane Edinger, violin.

Beethoven - Overture to Egmont
Penderecki - Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6, Pathetique

Oct. 2-4:
Stephen Stein, conductor;
James Tocco. piano.

Verdi - Overture to La forza del destino
Bernstein - Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

Oct. 23-25:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor,
Tabea Zimmermann, viola.

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Bartok - Viola Concerto
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9, From fhe New World

Oct: 29, 31, Nov.1:
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor;
Desmond Hoebig, cello.

Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2

Nov. 13-15:
Robert Shaw, conductor;
Lorna Haywood, soprano;
Stanford Olsen, tenor;
David Wilson-Johnson, baritone;
Houston Symphony Chorus

Britten - War Requiem

Nov. 27-29:
Erich Leinsdorf, conductor.

Haydn - Symphony No. 90
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Schubert - Symphony No. 3
R. Strauss -.Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Dec. 11-13:
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor/piano.

Bernstein - Suite from A Quiet Place
Gershwin - Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
Debussy - La Mer

Jan. 8-10, 1994:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor;
Thomas Hampson, baritone.

Ravel - Suite from Mother Goose
Mahler - Songs of a Wayfarer
Copland - Old American Songs
Ravel - Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe

Jan. 15-17:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor;
Emanuel Ax, plano.

Prokofiev - Classical Symphony
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 22
Bolcom - Commedia for Almost Eighteenth-Century Orchestra
Mozart - Symphony No. 35, Haffner

Feb. 5-7:
Nicholas McGegan, conductor;
Dominique Labelle, soprano;
Jeffrey Thomas, tenor;
Nathaniel Watson, baritone;
Houston Symphony Chorus.

Haydn - The Seasons

Feb. 12-14:
Lawrence Foster, conductor;
Uri Pianka, violin.

Berlioz - Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
Barber - Violin Concerto
Stravinsky - Petrouchka

Feb. 19-21:
Zdenek Macal, conductor;
Bella Davidovich, piano.

Schubert - Symphony No. 5
Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 1
Janacek - Taras Bulba

Feb. 26-28:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor;
Olli Mustonen. piano;
John DeWitt. trumpet.

J.S. Bach - Piano Concerto No. 3
Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1 with Solo Trumpet
Brahms - Symphony No. 1

March 5-7:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor;
Christian Tetzlaff, violin.

Dvorak - Violin Concerto
Bruckner - Symphony No. 6

March 26-28:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor;
William Ver Meulen. horn.

R. Strauss - Don Juan
R. Strauss - Horn Concerto No. 1
Cooper - Symphony No. 6
Tchaikovsky - Francesca da Rimini

May 14-16:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor/piano.

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 2
Reimann - World premiere
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5

May 21-23: 80th anniversary season finale.
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor;
Shinobu Satoh, soprano;
Marvis Martin, soprano;
Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano;
Janis Taylor, mezzo-soprano;
Lucille Beer, mezzo-soprano;
Vinson Cole. tenor;
baritone TBA;
Eric Halfvarson, bass;
Houston Symphony Chorus.

Mahler - Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand