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As thrilling as the Houston Symphony Orchestra\u00e2\u20ac™s final concert with Hans Graf<\/a> was last Friday night\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c everything came together perfectly for a stunning Mahler 2nd<\/sup> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac™s bittersweet to see him leave. He\u00e2\u20ac™ll be back as guest conductor at HSO next year, in particular, from November 29-December 1, for a concert with pianist Ingrid Fliter (Mozart\u00e2\u20ac™s Piano Concerto No. 23), Beethoven\u00e2\u20ac™s sixth symphony, and Grieg\u00e2\u20ac™s In Autumn<\/i>; and again, next April, when he\u00e2\u20ac™ll return for a program of Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hans Graf (photo Bruce Bennett)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The highlight of Houston Symphony\u00e2\u20ac™s upcoming season is surely John Adams\u00e2\u20ac™ visit in January and February for a program titled Adams Conducts Adams<\/i>. This makes me wonder, though: who thinks of these program titles? It sounds to me like an all-Adams program, doesn\u00e2\u20ac™t it? After hearing him conduct Nixon in China<\/i> at the Met, the thought of a concert devoted to his orchestral works is thrilling. But not quite- in addition to\u00a0his own\u00a0City Noir, <\/i>in Houston Adams will conduct Copland\u00e2\u20ac™s El Sal\u00c3\u00b3n Mexico<\/i> and Korngold\u00e2\u20ac™s Violin Concerto<\/i>, featuring Gil Shaham. Oh, couldn\u00e2\u20ac™t we have something like Adams\u00e2\u20ac™ Grand Pianola Music, <\/i>at the least, <\/i>instead of the Copland?<\/p>\n

Much of the upcoming season is same-old same-old: examples include Respighi\u00e2\u20ac™s Pines of Rome<\/i>, Vaughan Williams\u00e2\u20ac™ Fantasia on Greensleeves<\/i>, Mendelssohn\u00e2\u20ac™s Violin Concerto<\/i>, and at Christmas (wake me when it\u00e2\u20ac™s over) Handel\u00e2\u20ac™s Messiah<\/i>. In short, the same music offered at symphonic concerts when I was a child, in the 1960s. The same music my parents complained was “nothing new.” Back then, at least, you\u00e2\u20ac™d get the occasional performance of Penderecki\u00e2\u20ac™s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima<\/i>, <\/i>or something brazenly atonal. Reading\u00a0HSO’s press release makes me depressed at the lack of commissions from living composers, and the absence of almost anything written after 1940.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Adams concerts, there are a few other bright spots. The weekend of November 1, Carlos Miguel Prieto will conduct a special set in celebration of Day of the Dead called La Triste Historia<\/i>. The program includes work by Revueltas, Moncayo, and Juan Trigos (the latter with a film). I won\u00e2\u20ac™t miss that, or Christoph Eschenbach\u00e2\u20ac™s Mahler 8th<\/sup> next May.<\/p>\n

But along with such riches, there is still kitsch. January\u00e2\u20ac™s Wild, Wild West!<\/i> night is described in HSO\u00e2\u20ac™s press release as follows: Join us for a program that explores the sights and the sounds of the wild West! Head out to the range with music from Hoedown and Billy the Kid. Dive into what makes Texas, Texas when a rodeo cowboy and performers from Theater Under the Stars help us explore our western heritage through song.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Head out, dive, explore. What happened to just sitting back and \u00a0listening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He\u00e2\u20ac™ll be back as guest conductor at HSO next year, in particular, from November 29-December 1, for a concert with pianist Ingrid Fliter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[229,223,137,225,234,148,222,233,97,232,228,226,227,231,224,230],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-carlos-miguel-prieto","tag-centennial-season","tag-christoph-eschenbach","tag-city-noir","tag-grand-pianola-music","tag-hans-graf","tag-houston-symphony-orchestra","tag-ingrid-fliter","tag-john-adams","tag-juan-trigos","tag-la-triste-historia","tag-mahler-2nd","tag-mahler-8th","tag-moncayo","tag-nixon-in-china","tag-revueltas","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Sound of the Wild, Wild West - Texas, a Concept<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/2013\/05\/the-sound-of-the-wild-wild-west\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sound of the Wild, Wild West - Texas, a Concept\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As thrilling as the Houston Symphony Orchestra\u00e2\u20ac™s final concert with Hans Graf was last Friday night\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c everything came together perfectly for a stunning Mahler 2nd \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac™s bittersweet to see him leave. 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