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January 26, 2012 Celebration Theatre - The Temperamentals Director Jimmy Phillips and cast member Steve Bullitt talk about The Temperamentals, currently being presented at the Barnevelder Movement / Arts Complex by the city’s newest drama troupe, Celebration Theatre. The Temperamentals by Jon Marans tells the true story of two men who fell in love while creating the first gay-rights organization in early 1950s Los Angeles. |
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January 26, 2012 Moores Opera Center - Amelia & Tartuffe Singers from the Moores Opera Center perform selections from Daron Hagen’s new opera, Amelia, and Tartuffe by Kirke Mechem. Director Buck Ross, composer Daron Hagen and librettist Gardner McFall also join us in the studio to chat about those two works featured on the Moores School of Music’s 2012 Contemporary American Opera Festival, opening tonight at the University of Houston. |
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January 26, 2012 Poison Pen Reading Series - David Tomas Martinez & Adam Peterson We meet fiction-writer Adam Peterson and poet David Tomas Martinez [pictured], both Ph.D. candidates in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. They share samples of their writing, previewing their appearance on the Poison Pen Reading Series, this evening at Poison Girl Bar. |
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January 25, 2012 Da Camera of Houston - Ravi Coltrane We chat with the second-generation member of a jazz dynasty -- and a star in his own right -- post-bop saxophonist, Ravi Coltrane. Da Camera of Houston presents the Ravi Coltrane Quartet in concert, Friday night at the Wortham Center. |
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January 25, 2012 Ars Lyrica Houston - The Art of Fugue Matthew Dirst, Artistic Director of Ars Lyrica Houston, talks about Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental unfinished work, The Art of Fugue, which he'll perform as a solo organ piece on Sunday evening at St. Philip Presbyterian Church. |
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January 25, 2012 Opera in the Heights - Anna Bolena Soprano Emily Newton sings an aria from Gaetano Donizetti’s opera about the second of Henry VII's ill-fated wives. Music Director Enrique Carreón-Robledo also shares insights about Opera In The Heights' production of Anna Bolena, which opens tomorrow night at Lambert Hall. |
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January 24, 2012 Big Head Productions - Motel Tropicana Producer-director, Leighza Walker, and actor-playwright, Tom Stell, discuss Motel Tropicana, an evening of short plays, each set in a seedy motel room with a different set of characters and adult situations, and where anything can happen. Big Head Productions is currently presenting Motel Tropicana at the Obsidian Art Space. |
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January 24, 2012 Channing Concerts present Greenbriar Consortium - Music of Fire Oboist Anne Leek [pictured], soprano Julia Fox, and pianists Paul Boyd and Keith Weber of the Greenbriar Consortium heat up the studio, as they perform selections from Music of Fire, their program on the Channing Concerts series, tonight at First Universalist-Unitarian Church. |
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