Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale, from 1918), a two-performance, one-evening event at Galapagos in Dumbo last week, was one of those only-in-New-York performances that restores one's faith in humanity, even on a wicked sleety night.

Lots of orchestras incorporate projected images of planets when they perform Holst’s The Planets, but not every orchestra’s hometown has jet propulsion labs and nearby rocket scientists as collaborators. So when I heard the Houston Symphony Orchestra was coming to Carnegie Hall on Thursday (Jan. 28) to play The Planets on January 28—with a new [...]