Houston Symphony Closes Out POPS Season With One-Hit Wonders

Principal POPS Conductor Steven Reineke closes out the 2017-18 BBVA Compass POPS Series May 25 & 26 at 8 p.m. and May 27 at 7:30 p.m. with One-Hit Wonders, a program featuring some of the most memorable songs of the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Show-stopping vocalist Storm Large returns to perform some of the greatest and most recognizable songs of all time, which are often overlooked on concert programs in favor of music by more well-established artists and bands. Among those familiar songs featured in the program are "Video Killed the Radio Star," "Chariots of Fire," "Bittersweet Symphony," "Take on Me," "The Hustle" and "The Girl from Ipanema."

Large, who first shot to fame in 2006 as a finalist on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova, is a co-lead vocalist of the Portland-based Pink Martini band and regularly tours concert halls across the country with her band Le Bonheur. Recent highlights include engagements with The New York Pops; Cincinnati and Memphis Symphony Orchestras; The Louisville Orchestra; and performances at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.

Large and Reineke will be joined by Broadway star Matt Doyle who recently starred in the U.S. premiere of A Clockwork Orange at New World Stages and made his Carnegie Hall debut with The New York Pops last fall. Matt's Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Elder Price), War Horse (Billy Narracott), Spring Awakening (Hanschen) and Bye Bye Birdie (Hugo Peabody). Doyle will be making his Houston Symphony debut.

The concert will take place at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, 615 Louisiana Street, in Houston's Theater District. For tickets and information, please 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.

About the Houston Symphony

During the 2017-18 season, the Houston Symphony celebrates its fourth season with Music Director Andrés Orozco- Estrada and continues its second century as one of America's leading orchestras with a full complement of concert, community, education, touring and recording activities. The Houston Symphony, one of the oldest performing arts organizations in Texas, held its inaugural performance at The Majestic Theater in downtown Houston June 21, 1913. Today, with an annual operating budget of $33.9 million, the full-time ensemble of 88 professional musicians presents nearly 170 concerts annually, making it the largest performing arts organization in Houston. Additionally, musicians of the orchestra and the Symphony's four Community-Embedded Musicians offer over 900 community-based performances each year, reaching thousands of people in Greater Houston.

The Grammy Award-winning Houston Symphony has recorded under various prestigious labels, including Naxos, Koch International Classics, Telarc, RCA Red Seal, Virgin Classics and, most recently, Dutch recording label Pentatone. In 2017, the Houston Symphony was awarded an ECHO Klassik award for the live recording of Alban Berg's Wozzeck under the direction of former Music Director Hans Graf. The orchestra earned its first Grammy nomination and Grammy Award at the 60th annual ceremony for the same recording in the Best Opera Recording category.

For tickets and more information, please visit www.houstonsymphony.org or call 713-224-7575.