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The Front Row - Opera in the Heights Singers from Opera in the Heights perform for us. Conductor Linus Lerner joins us also, to preview the company's production of The Pearl Fishers, Georges Bizet's opera set on the ancient, Indian-Ocean island of Ceylon, where two fishermen have both fallen for the same mysterious woman. Opera in the Heights's Pearl Fishers opens tomorrow evening at Lambert Hall... |
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The Front Row - Blaffer Art Museum Belgian artist, Johan Grimonprez, shows us around It's A Poor Sort Of Memory That Only Works Backwards, his exhibition of films and videos that comment on the media, culture, art and politics. They're currently on view at the University of Houston's Blaffer Art Museum... |
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Choreographer Jennifer Wood previews her new evening-length work, Masters of Semblance, which her Suchu Dance Company premieres this weekend at the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex... |
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The Front Row - Ars Lyrica Houston Musicologist Matthew Dirst talks about J.S. Bach's Saint John Passion, which Dr. Dirst's early-music ensemble, Ars Lyrica Houston, and the Moores School of Music's Concert Chorale perform twice next weekend... |
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The Front Row - University of Houston Members of San Antonio's SOLI Chamber Ensemble perform a movement from Olivier Messiaen's extraordinary Quartet for the End of Time, live in the Geary Performance Studio. They play the entire piece on their recital of contemporary music, this evening at the University of Houston... |
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The Front Row - University of Houston Kiowa Indian craft-artist, Teri Greeves, shows us her bead-work sculptural pieces and wall-hangings that are currently on display in the exhibition, Storied Beads, at the O'Kane Gallery at the University of Houston - Downtown... |
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The Front Row - Grand 1894 Opera House Today, we chat with "The Man with the Golden Flute" - Sir James Galway - about his recital tomorrow night at Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House with his flutist-wife, Lady Jeanne Galway... |
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The Front Row - Music in Context Context pianist Brian Connelly talks about Beethoven's final three Sonatas for Violin and Piano, which he and Houston Symphony Associate Concertmaster Eric Halen play on period instruments Sunday afternoon at Rice University's Duncan Recital Hall... |
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The Front Row - Tuesday Musical Club Singers from the Houston Tuesday Musical Club perform excerpts from The Lovely Light, a brand-new piece commissioned for the Club's 100th Birthday! Composer Robert Nelson and librettist Kate Pogue tell about their World Premiere work and Susan Fischman previews the Tuesday Musical Club's Gala Centennial Concert and Party... |
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The Front Row L'Alliance Francaise Houston-based French pianist, Raphael Gadot, and his jazz trio also join us in the Geary Performance Studio. They treat us to swinging renditions of originals, standards and French and Russian songs, previewing their show at Ovations Night Club Saturday night, presented by L'Alliance Francaise as part of this year's French Cultures Festival... |
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The Front Row - Apollo Chamber Players Members of the Apollo Chamber Players perform for us today. We hear excerpts from their next concert, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms Bring the Funk and Folk, a program of dance- and folk-flavored pieces by the three masters named in the title. The recital takes place Saturday evening at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall... |
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The Front Row - Main Street Theater Director Troy Scheid and actress Stephanie Holladay Earl talk about Main Street Theater's Regional Premiere of Or, a saucy historical farce by Liz Duffy Adams that imagines the inter-relationship between the 17th-Century British King, Charles II, his mistress, actress Nell Gwynne and Aphra Behn, England's first important female playwright... |
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The winner of Opera Vista's 2010 New Opera Competition, Lembit Beecher, performs some of his solo piano pieces for us, previewing this year's Opera Vista chamber-music recital, which takes place tomorrow evening at Bethany Christian Church. And, Artistic Director Viswa Subbaraman and the jurors of this year's Opera Vista Competition talk about the entries that have made it into the contest's final rounds... |
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The Front Row - McMurtrey Gallery We look at recent paintings by Missouri-born artist, Sarah Williams, on display at the McMurtrey Gallery. Ms. Williams's small-town, heartland nightscapes have been described as a cross between an Edward Hopper painting and a Coen Brothers film... |
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The Front Row - Houston Friends of Chamber Music We meet trumpeter Ray Mase and bass trombonist John Rojak of the American Brass Quintet. The ensemble, now celebrating its 50th Year, performs tonight at Rice University's Stude Concert Hall, where it's being presented by the Houston Friends of Chamber Music... |
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The Front Row - Discovery Green We preview The Spring Anniversary Show 2011, which brings together three local dance troupes in celebration of their 5th, 10th and 15th Anniversaries! Marlana Walsh-Doyle of Houston Metropolitan Dance, Walter Hull of Urban Souls Dance Company and Mauricio Campos of the Brazilian Arts Foundation talk about their groups' significant milestones and the dance pieces they'll be performing tomorrow evening at Discovery Green... |
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The Front Row - Rice University We have a performance by singers from Rice University's ?Shepherd School Opera! Their next production, opening Thursday, is Ned Rorem's Our Town. Music Director Richard Bado and Stage Director Mary Duncan join us also, to chat about this American opera, based on the iconic play by Thornton Wilder... |
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The Front Row - Cirque de Soleil We learn about the original music that accompanies the action in Cirque du Soleil's latest touring production, OVO. Band-leader, Jean-Francois Bedard, talks about the Brazilian-inflected score that composer Berna Ceppas created to provide the sonic underpinning for the show's feats of agility, balance, strength and derring-do set in the world of insects. |
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The Front Row - Wade Wilson ART Visual artist, Tom Berg shows us his recent paintings on view at the Wade Wilson Art Gallery... |
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The Front Row - Murder by the Book New York Times best-selling author, Linda Fairstein, chats about her new "Alex Cooper" thriller, Silent Mercy, copies of which she'll sign this evening at Murder By The Book... |
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The Front Row - Pandora Theatre Three cast members talk about Vox Feminina 2, an original production by Pandora Theatre that explores the different roles women play in contemporary society... |
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The Front Row - Hobby Center for the Performing Arts Jazz singer Bryan Anthony and the Gary Norian Trio treat us to a live studio session! They're going to introduce their new album, A Night Like This, with a gala CD Release Concert and Party tomorrow night at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall... |
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The Front Row - Lawndale Art Center Visual artist Josephine Durkin shows us her Lawndale Art Center exhibition, When I Saw You Last in which drawings, sculptures and objects are manipulated to suggest and mimic human gestures and relationships... |
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The Front Row - Foundation for Modern Music Raul Orlando Edwards of the Foundation for Modern Music, and African-born French folk-singer, Gabriel Bata preview the concert, Music for Peace: Peace in Many Languages, which takes place tonight. It's the latest in a series of special events celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of The Rothko Chapel... |
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The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts We try to pry some secrets out of a couple of members of the Blue Man Group --- Yes, those mysterious, multi-faceted performers do talk when they're off-stage and out of costume. Society for the Performing Arts is presenting the Blue Men through Sunday at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - International Festival-Institute at Round Top French guitarist, Emmanuel Rossfelder one of the guest artists who will be featured at the Seventh Annual International Guitar Festival taking place all day Saturday at the International Festival-Institute in Round Top... |
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Singers from Opera Vista perform excerpts from And Then I Remember, the chamber opera by Estonian-American composer, Lembit Beecher, that was the winning entry in last year's Opera Vista Competition. The piece's Texas premiere opens this year's week-long OV Festival Saturday night at Bethany Christian Church... |
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The Front Row - Young Texas Artist Competition Conductor Emelyne Bingham, Artistic Director of Montgomery County's Young Texas Artists' Music Competition, introduces us to one of the Competition's past winners, baritone Joshua Hopkins. Hopkins, who made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera this season, performs for us -- previewing the kind of artistry that will be on display at the Crighton Theatre in Conroe this Saturday evening, when the finalists in this year's YTA Competition vie for cash prizes and the kind of career boost that such a contest victory can bring... |
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The Front Row - Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre Joel Orr, the Artistic Director of Houston's Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theater, and Heather Henson, daughter of Muppets creator, the late Jim Henson, talk about the evening of contemporary adult puppet plays and films that Bobbindoctrin is presenting on its Seventh Annual Puppet Festival, this weekend at the Midtown Arts Center... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Glassell School of Art Core Fellow, Kelly Sears, describes her animated collage-films, in which she assembles illustrations and photographs from old books and magazines to make commentaries on contemporary American society. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston screens a selection of Ms. Sears's short films on Friday evening... |
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The Front Row - NANO Fiction Reading Series We chat with fiction-writer, Ryan Call, one of three local wordsmiths who share their latest musings this evening on the NANO Fiction Reading Series at Kaboom Books... |
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The Front Row - Houston Ballet Houston Ballet Principal Dancer, Connor Walsh, talks about his first experience of stepping into the role of "The Prince" in the company's latest revival of Ben Stevenson's Sleeping Beauty which opens Thursday night at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row - Shepherd School of Music Violinist Kenneth Goldsmith, clarinetist Michael Webster, violist Ivo-Jan van der Werff and pianist Robert Moeling perform for us previewing their Friday night Faculty Recital at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music... |
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The Front Row - Channing Concerts Members of The Greenbriar Consortium - along with guest artists, Christopher and Ellen Scholl, formerly of Germany's Bavarian State Opera - perform chamber pieces for voices and instruments, previewing the Channing Concert that takes place tomorrow evening at First Unitarian-Universalist Church... |
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The Front Row - Houston Grand Opera Houston Grand Opera Studio singers perform excerpts from Mozart's romantic comedy, Cosi fan tutte. A production of that work will be the first full-length opera ever presented by the HGO Studio Artists, this weekend at Emery-Weiner School... |
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The Front Row - Imprint/Brown Reading Series We talk with internationally-acclaimed author, Chitra Divakaruni, a member of the faculty of the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. She reads from her most recent novel, One Amazing Thing, on the next program in Inprint's Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, this evening at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall... |
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The Front Row - Da Camera of Houston Members of the Saint Lawrence String Quartet chat about the Da Camera concert that they'll present tonight at the Hobby Center. That program pairs a late Beethoven quartet with a brand-new piece written expressly for the Saint Lawrence by Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer, John Adams... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We speak with conductor Juanjo Mena and pianist Gabriela Montero, the featured guest artists on this weekend's Houston Symphony concerts, which include legendary works by Rachmaninoff and Mozart... |
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The Front Row - Hobby Center for the Performing Arts We have a live performance by Bayou City jazz and soul singer, Yvonne Washington, and pianist, Gary Norian, who share tunes from their new album, Trust in Me, to be released next week... |
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The Front Row - University of Houston - Downtown A poet from Trinidad-Tobago and two singers - one from Romania, the other from Syria - share some of their work with us, previewing the Fulbright Arts Festival's celebration of International Music, Dance and Literature that takes place tomorrow evening at the University of Houston - Downtown... |
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Three members of A. D. Players' acting company discuss their production of An Inspector Calls, J. B. Priestly's provocative 1945 mystery in which the members of a well-to-do London family are confronted with the fact that each of them contributed, in one way or another, to the downward spiral of the life of a young working-class girl who has committed suicide... |
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Actresses Jennifer Harmon and Louisa Flaningam (picutred) talk about the Alley Theatre's Texas-premiere staging of Tracy Letts' 2008 Pulitzer-Prize and Tony-Award-winning play, August: Osage County... |
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The Front Row - University of Houston Author Mat Johnson, who teaches in the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program, chats about his new book, PYM, which is simultaneously an adventure novel, a satirical fantasy, and a meditation on race, literature and obsession... |
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The Front Row - Bootown Theatre Company Director Philip Hays and actor Jonathan Colunga talk about Cut Down, an original play that blends the Greek myth of Ixion with the true story of Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British explorer who disappeared in the Amazonian jungle in 1925. Bootown presents Cut Down this weekend at Super Happy Fun Land... |
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The Front Row - King Biscuit Patio Cafe Jazz vocalist, Danielle Reich, and her band perform songs from her first studio album, This Year's Kisses, previewing their CD Release Party and Show tonight at the King Biscuit Patio Cafe... |
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The Front Row - Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Artist and metal-smith, Lisa Gralnick, shows us her three-part Houston Center for Contemporary Craft exhibition, The Gold Standard in which she explores the curious hold that that shiny yellow metal has had on the human imagination since the beginning of time... |
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The Front Row - Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart We chat with James O'Donnell, the Organist and Master of Choristers at England's Westminster Abbey! This evening, O'Donnell performs a solo recital on the new Opus Nineteen Pasi Pipe Organ at downtown Houston's Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart... |
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The Front Row - Gulf Coast Reading Series Poet Meggie Monahan (pictured) and fiction-writer Dane Wisher of the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program share samples of their latest work, previewing their joint appearance on the Gulf Coast Reading Series, Friday evening at the Brazos Bookstore... |
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The Front Row - Dance Source Houston We hear about the dance program, Twelve Minutes Max!, a showcase for short new works and works-in-progress from five local choreographers, coming up this weekend at DiverseWorks... |
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The Front Row - CORE Performance Company Choreographer Sue Schroeder tells us about her new "work-in-progress," The Point, which her CORE Performance Company premieres the weekend of March Eleventh and Twelfth at the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex... |
