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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. |
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"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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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"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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"Classical Minds" Guitar Institute: The Kithara Duo and Julia Crowe The Kithara Duo, Fernand and Olga Amelkina-Vera, play music for traditional acoustic classical guitars, and Julia Crowe performs a piece on electric guitar. |
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Stark Naked Theatre: "Macbeth" Husband-and-wife acting duo, Philip Lehl and Kim Tobin, discuss their turns as Lord and Lady Macbeth in Stark Naked Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy. |
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Maestro Heiichiro Ohyama talks about returning, after an absence of seven years, to conduct the Texas Festival Orchestra at the 43rd Annual Music Festival in Round Top, Texas. |
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Argentinean-born dancer Oscar Lopez-Gamundi chats about the art of tango, which he and fellow tango dancers will discuss and demonstrate as this month’s “Artful Thursday” program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. |
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Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival: "Songfest Cabaret: Martini Madness" Five of the city’s top vocalists treat us to a medley of Italian café songs from the '50s, previewing their Songfest Cabaret: Martini Madness, the opening event of this year’s Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival. |
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Executive director Denise O’Neal, playwright Eric C. Jones and stage-director Errol Anthony Wilks talk about Fade to Black, Houston’s first-ever festival celebrating short, original stage-works by African-American playwrights. |
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Texas Music Festival: "Perspectives" Faculty Recital Faculty artists from the Texas Music Festival play Martinu and Tchaikovsky for us, previewing the chamber-music recital they’re presenting. |
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Members of Two Star Symphony chat about the making of their first-ever music video, a short independent film with an original music score created by the ensemble. It’s set in a haunted house. |
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Choreographer Trey McIntyre talks about his magical re-interpretation of Peter Pan for Houston Ballet, filled with swordfights, flying children and punk-inspired costumes. |
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Actors from Stages Repertory Theatre perform songs from Stephen Sondheim's newest musical Road Show, based on the true story of two brothers and their epic adventures across America in the early 1900s. |
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MFAH: "The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning" We chat with Frances Marzio, curator of antiquities at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She shows us the iconic Cyrus Cylinder, dating back to the Sixth Century B.C. and considered to be the world’s first declaration of human rights. |
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“Classical Minds” Guitar Institute founder, director and guitarist Valerie Hartzell joins us. She performs a brand-new work by composer Andy Mitchell. |
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Classical Classroom: Bach's "Mass in B-Minor" In this episode, public radio national producer Wesley Horner gives our Audio Librarian Dacia Clay a music lesson on one of the greatest masterworks of all time, J-S Bach’s Mass in B-Minor. |
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Curator Peter Lucas talks about the “Jazz on Film” series at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. It’s a showcase of feature films, documentaries and historic shorts that explore the relationship between jazz and cinema. |
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Texas Music Festival: Opening Orchestral Concert Conductor Franz Anton Krager and percussion soloist Matthew Strauss preview the season-opening concert by the Texas Music Festival Orchestra. Featured on the program is the Double Percussion Concerto by British composer Mark Anthony Turnage. |
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We meet Jillian Mueller and Matthew Hydzik, stars of the national tour of Flashdance, the stage musical based on the popular movie about a young steel worker who dreams of becoming a famous dancer. |
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Alley Theatre: "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club" Alley Theatre resident actor Todd Waite talks about his third turn as Sherlock Holmes in the company’s production of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club. |
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Texas Music Festival: "Le Chiavi di Bel Canto" Four of the participants in the Texas Music Festival's Le Chiavi workshop perform opera excerpts by Donizetti and Bellini, previewing the Institute’s closing concert. |
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Choreographer Jennifer Wood tells us about her newest evening-length piece BOSK, in which the performers from her company, Suchu Dance, portray various woodland creatures. |
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We chat with rising young Chinese-American maestro Perry So, who conducts the Round Top Music Festival Orchestra in its first concert of the season. |
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Singers from the central-Texas-based Franco-American Vocal Academy join us in the Geary Studio for a live preview of their production of Jacques Offenbach’s operetta La Vie Parisienne. |
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Texas Music Festival: "Grace, Wit and Fire" Moores School pianist and composer Brian Suits and three of his colleagues from the Houston Symphony play selections by Madeleine Dring, Samuel Barber and Suits himself. |
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We re-introduce ourselves to the strange, colorful, funny and curious realm of the Blue Man Group, and we meet a Blue Man who grew up in Houston. |
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Pamela Fraser: "The Fourth Dimension Was Ha-Ha, In Other Words, It Is Laughter" We check out the newest exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum, a selection of large and small-scale paintings, drawings and paper constructions by Vermont-based visual artist Pamela Fraser. |
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We meet Dixie Longate, top-ranked Tupperware sales-lady, fast-talking story-teller, down-home kind of gal and star of the award-winning show Dixie's Tupperware Party. |
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2013 Ima Hogg Competition - 4th Place: Libby Fayette We meet Libby Fayette, the young, Long-Island-born violinist who won fourth prize in the Ima Hogg Competition, and we hear her finals-round performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto that earned her the honor. |
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"MBTV: The Music Box Does Television" The gang from Music Box Theater perform some of their favorite pop songs from the 1920s through the present day in the music-and-comedy revue MBTV: The Music Box Does Television. |
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Houston Ballet: "Journey with the Masters" Dance mistress Roslyn Anderson describes Czech choreographer Jirí Kylián’s classically-based piece Sinfonietta, which she’s re-set for Houston Ballet’s Spring Mixed-Repertory Program Journey With The Masters. |
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38th Annual Ima Hogg Competition Roger Daily of the Houston Symphony talks about the 38th Annual Ima Hogg Competition, in which emerging young musicians vie for cash prizes and the opportunity to perform in concert with the Houston Symphony. |
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Public Poetry: Darla McBryde and Dustin Pickering Texas poets Darla McBryde and Dustin Pickering share examples of their latest work, previewing this month’s Public Poetry reading |
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We chat with Ta’Rea Campbell, who stars in the national tour of the Broadway musical Sister Act as Deloris, a fast-living night-club singer who’s masquerading as a nun in an inner-city convent as part of a Witness Protection Program. |
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Honolulu-based composer Thomas Osborne shares excerpts from some of his Asian-influenced chamber pieces that will be performed on the final Aperio, Music of the Americas concert of the season. |
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Cabaret singer Deborah Boily returns to her roots in musical theater and performs American songs, previewing her weekend solo show at Ovations. |
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"B.L.K. Gurls ~n~ W.H.T. Boiz: Singin' 'bout Gawd!" Dancer-choreographers, Jhon R. Stronks and Jasmine Hearn, describe their collaborative program, BLK. Gurls ~n~ WHT. Boiz - Singin' 'bout Gawd! |
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Main Street Theater: "Close Up Space" Director Andrew Ruthven and cast member David Wald talk about Main Street Theater’s production of Close Up Space by Molly Smith Metzler. |
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Ars Lyrica: "Divine Recreation" Keyboardist Matthew Dirst and soprano Melissa Givens join us in the Geary Studio to perform excerpts from George Frideric Handel’s Oratorio, Solomon, previewing Ars Lyrica Houston’s final concert of the season. |
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Classical Classroom: "The Composer's Process" Houston Public Radio’s senior recording engineer Brad Sayles, also an accomplished composer, talks about “The Composer’s Process,” through which a new, original piece of music is created out of nothing more than an idea. |
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Texas pianist Van Cliburn restored the nation’s self-confidence at the height of the Cold War when he won the first Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, Russia, and introduced a whole generation of Americans to the joys of classical music with his lyrical and big-hearted approach to repertoire from the Romantic Era. |
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Former chef Bert Long was a self-taught, Houston-based visual artist who won the prestigious Prix de Rome and made a name for himself as a contemporary artist at a time when few African-Americans were able to break into the field. |
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In Memoriam: Dr. Sidney Berger Dr. Sidney Berger was the long-time director of the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Houston, and founder of the Houston Shakespeare Festival, which takes place every summer at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park. |
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The Grand 1894 Opera House Summer Series Executive director Maureen Patton highlights some of the attractions and personalities that Galveston’s Grand 1894 Opera House is presenting during its first-ever, full-blown Summer Series |
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Acclaimed Israeli singer, composer and songwriter David D’Or talks about his eclectic repertoire and the concert he’s performing with the Houston Symphony, celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. |
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WindSync performs music by Astor Piazzolla and Leonard Bernstein, previewing their season-finale concert Homeward Bound . |
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Unity Theatre: "I Hate Hamlet" Director George Brock and actors Zach Lewis and Joel Sandel discuss Unity Theatre Brenham’s production of Paul Rudnick’s comedy I Hate Hamlet. |
