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Texas Music Festival: "Perspectives" Faculty-Artist Recital

Violinist Andrzej Grabiec and pianist Timothy Hester perform a world premiere for us, previewing the “Perspectives” Faculty-Artist Recital at the Texas Music Festival.

     

"Malcolm and Teresa"

We chat with Irish playwright Cathal Gallagher about his drama Malcolm and Teresa, based on the true story of reporter Malcolm Muggeridge and his interviews with Mother Teresa in the 1970s.

     

Classical Classroom: Tone Poems

Houston Public Radio announcer Amy Bishop sits down with our audio librarian Dacia Clay to examine a couple of her favorite examples of musical tone poems.

     

"Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas and Gina Pane"

Contemporary Arts Museum curator Dean Daderko shows us around the exhibition Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas and Gina Pane, a side-by-side comparison of two foundational performance artists -- one American; one French.

     

"A Soldier's Play"

Director Rachel Hemphill Dickson and actor Kelvin Hamilton discuss Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play.  The Ensemble Theatre presents a staged reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

     

Jaston Williams

We chat with Greater Tuna’s Jaston Williams, who premieres his new laugh-filled, autobiographical one-man show Blame It On Valentine, Texas at Galveston’s Grand 1894 Opera House.

     

Texas Music Festival: Orchestral Concert featuring Jessica Findley

Guest conductor Horst Foerster talks about the concert he’ll conduct, which includes a performance of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto by Jessica Findley, winner of the 2013 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition. She plays some Bach for us.

     

"Classical Minds" Guitar Institute: Gohar Vardanyan and Matt Palmer

Two faculty artists from this year’s “Classical Minds” Guitar Institute at the University of Houston – Gohar Vardanyan and Matt Palmer – perform for us, previewing the joint recital they’re presenting.

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> On Thursday, playwright Aleks Merilo talks about his new drama, Exit 27, which receives its World Première by The Landing Theatre Company. Best-selling author, Janet Evanovich, chats about her new novel, The Heist. And we have a performance by jazz singer, Bryan Anthony, and his band, The Gentlemen’s Club, with special guest trumpeter, Brandon Lee.







> On Wednesday, Christoph Campestrini talks about conducting Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 at the Round Top Music Festival. We preview a major exhibition at the Asia Society Texas Center: Universe is Flux - The Art of Tawara Yusaku, which will feature a special performance by Mercury at the opening. And singers from the Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival perform arias from Rossini’s The Silken Ladder!

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Asia Society Texas Center
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Lone Star Lyric Festival Orchestra
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