Houston Symphony Presents Dvorak's SERENADE FOR STRINGS This Weekend

Frank Huang leads the Houston Symphony in a program of favorite works for chamber orchestra and strings in Dvorák's Serenade for Strings at 8 p.m. this weekend, November 12 and 14 and 2:30 p.m. on November 15 at Jones Hall. An additional performance is slated for 8 p.m. on November 13 at Sugar Land Baptist Church as part of the Houston Symphony's Sugar Land Series.

The program will commence with Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, which was written as a birthday present for his wife, Cosima, and contains tender and lyrical music later used in his opera of the same name. The concert will also feature Huang as soloist in Dvo?ák's melodic Romance for Violin and Orchestra and Sarasate's gypsy-inspired showstopper, Zigeunerweisen. The program will conclude with Dvo?ák's sunny Serenade for Strings, which presents one gorgeous melody after another, filled with all the warmth and generosity for which this composer is so treasured.

The concerts will take place at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, 615 Louisiana Street, in Houston's Theater District, unless otherwise noted. For tickets and information, call (713) 224-7575 or visit www.houstonsymphony.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the Houston Symphony Patron Services Center in Jones Hall (Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). All programs and artists are subject to change.

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