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We chat with actress, author and screenwriter Carrie Fisher, creator of the Princess Leia character in the original Star Wars movies. Fisher is currently telling stories about herself and members of her extended family in her one-woman show Wishful Drinking, at the Hobby Center as part of this year’s Gexa Energy Broadway Series. |
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Artistic director Eileen J. Morris and two members of her cast (Ben Cain and Wilbert Williams) discuss The Ensemble Theatre’s new production of King Hedley II, the next-to-last of the 10 plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American playwright August Wilson, that are set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh. |
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We preview a rare performance, taking place here in Houston, of the Sacred Service by 20th-century Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch. The composer’s grandson, Ernie Bloch, joins us in the studio, along with Grammy-winning baritone Mark S. Doss, and Phillip Kloeckner, artistic director of the Houston-based United Nations Association International Choir. They talk about and share excerpts from Mister Bloch’s choral-and-orchestral masterpiece, written on the brink of WWII. |
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Three of the semi-finalists in this year’s Lois Alba Aria Competition demonstrate the musical skills that will be judged when they and the other contenders vie for honors in the competition’s final two elimination rounds at the University of Saint Thomas. Lois Alba herself joins us in the studio as well. |
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Fayetteville Chamber Music Festival (includes more video!) We have a live performance by artistic director and clarinetist Håkan Rosengren and three more of the world-class musicians who are participating in this year’s Fayetteville Chamber Music Festival. They sample the repertoire of small-ensemble gems by 18th, 19th and 20th-century European composers that they’ll be playing on the concluding weekend of the festival. |
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We chat with jazz-fusion composer and keyboard-player Jeff Lorber. He has put together a 21st-century version of his pioneeirng group The Jeff Lorber Fusion, and they play the Red Cat Jazz Café in downtown Houston. |
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Playwright Douglas Anderson and actor Kevin Dean talk about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who was involved with the resistance movement in WWII-era Germany that was actively working to bring down Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. Dean portrays Bonhoeffer in Mister Anderson’s biographical play, The Beams Are Creaking, currently being presented by Houston’s A. D. Players. |
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Acclaimed New York choreographer Jonah Bokaer previews his site-specific piece On Vanishing, which his dancers will present at the new Asia Society Texas Center in the Museum District. |
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