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The Front Row - Rice University Shepherd School of Music faculty composer Karim Al-Zand talks about his Cabinet of Curiosities -- that's the title of a concert of his new and recent chamber music, scheduled for Friday at Rice University. We also hear one of the pieces on his recital program performed by Shepherd School graduate-student violinist, Eric Siu... |
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The Front Row - Grand 1894 Opera House Lead actress Dayna Jarae Dantzler talks about the stage-musical version of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, which features a Tony-and-Grammy-Award-nominated score that combines jazz, gospel and blues. The national touring production plays Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House this Saturday... |
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The Front Row - Main Street Theater We look at two important theatrical productions that opened this past weekend here in the Bayou City. Actress Claire Hart-Palumbo and director Rebecca Greene Udden talk about Main Street Theatre's presentation of The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's stage adaptation of her powerful memoir about the loss of her husband and the prolonged illness of her only daughter... |
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The Front Row - Classical Theatre Company Director Julia Traber and cast members, Shannon Emerick and Matt Lents, chat about Classical Theatre Company's production of Candida. It's George Bernard Shaw's comedy that questions Victorian notions of the romantic, social and political dynamics of the relationships between men and women... |
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The Front Row - Rice University Shepherd School of Music bassoon teacher, Benjamin Kamins, and three of his students play a Concerto by 18th Century French composer, Michel Corrette in preview of a Faculty Recital that's taking place Thursday evening at Rice University... |
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The Front Row - Stages Repertory Theatre Acclaimed wordsmith and dramatist, Will Eno (pictured) and stage-director, Alex Harvey talk about Eno's collection of five short plays, Oh, The Humanity. The regional premiere production opened this past weekend at Houston's Stages Repertory Theatre... |
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The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts Albert Mazibuko of the Grammy-Award-winning South African vocal ensemble, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, describes how he and the other members of the group looked back to their rural childhoods to find the material that makes up the contents of their new album, Songs from a Zulu Farm and its associated concert program, which Society for the Performing Arts brings to Jones Hall this Friday night... |
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The Front Row - Travesty Dance Group Dancer-choreographer Karen Stokes previews the lecture-demonstration-video-and-performance, Framing Dance, that her Travesty Dance Group is going to present Wednesday evening at Zilkha Hall. It's an audience-participatory program designed to give those who attend, the tools they need to better comprehend and appreciate contemporary dance in all of its many styles and variations... |
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The Front Row - Trinity Jazz Festival Seattle-based singer, Greta Matassa, and Puerto-Rican-born flutist, Nestor Torres, join us live in the Geary Performance Studio. They are two of the headliners for the 10th Annual Trinity Jazz Festival, which gets underway this evening and continues through Sunday mid-day at Trinity Episcopal Church in Midtown... |
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The Front Row - Nameless Sound Dallas-based avant-garde jazz trumpeter, Dennis Gonzales, and his sons, Aaron and Stefan doing business as the trio, Yells at Eels perform for us, previewing their concert tomorrow evening at the Barnevelder Movement /Arts Complex, where they're being presented by Nameless Sound... |
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The Front Row - Moores School of Music Stage-directors, Buck Ross and Joseph Evans and Music Directors, Brett Mitchell and Dominique Royem talk about the Moores Opera Center's weekend productions of Mozart's The Magic Flute and Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring... |
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The Front Row - Duo Scordatura Violinist Nicholas Leh Baker and composer George Heathco introduce us to Mr. Baker's ensemble, Duo Scordatura, which performs four brand-new works for violin and viola on a concert entitled, Commissioned . It's Saturday night at First Presbyterian Church... |
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The Front Row - Houston Grand Opera Tenor Dimitri Pittas and Baritone Scott Hendricks discuss Houston Grand Opera's new realization of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor... |
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Artistic Director Raul Orlando Edwards previews Raices - Roots, one of the events being offered in celebration of the 5th anniversary of his contemporary performing-arts group, Flamart. He and singer Irma La Paloma of Solero Flamenco describe their program of music, dance, drama and song tracing European and African influences on Latin American and Latino music and dance which is presented Sunday afternoon at MECA. |
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The Front Row - Opera in the Heights Singers from Opera in the Heights perform excerpts from their new production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Don Carlo, a tale of love and political intrigue based on actual events surrounding the royal house of 16th-Century Spain... |
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The Front Row - Shepherd School of Music Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Yehudi Wyner, talks about his life, career and music. Artists from the Shepherd School of Music perform Dr. Wyner's Oboe Quartet and his 2009 Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano on tomorrow evening's Syzygy: New Music concert at Rice University... |
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The Front Row - Rice University Houston Symphony Principal Cellist and Rice University Professor, Brinton Averil Smith, with expert assistance from his wife, pianist Evelyn Chen, previews his Faculty Recital of works inspired by song. That concert is scheduled for tomorrow evening at the Shepherd School of Music... |
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The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts Artistic Coordinator, Lucrecia Laurel, talks about the Fire and Passion of Tango, a concert program that traces the history of Argentina's national dance, presented by Tango Buenos Aires. Society for the Performing Arts brings the company to Houston's Jones Hall for two performances on Saturday... |
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The Front Row - Big Head Productions Bayou City playwright, Peter Wittenberg, Junior, and director, Leighza Walker, talk about Mister Wittenberg's latest work, Loplop Presents Loplop, a story that unfolds during the course of one evening, as twins, Frida and Lyle, celebrate their thirtieth birthday... |
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The Front Row - Imprint/Brown Reading Series Two-time Man-Booker-Prize-winning author, Peter Carey, discusses his latest novel, Parrot and Olivier in America; he'll read from and discuss the book in greater depth this evening at the Alley Theatre, on the Inprint/Brown Reading Series... |
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The Front Row - Da Camera of Houston Pianist Sarah Rothenberg, the Artistic Director of Da Camera of Houston, plays solo keyboard works by Alban Berg and Alexander Scriabin, as she previews the Houston premiere of her critically-acclaimed multi-media program, The Blue Rider, which pairs the visual images and ideas of painter Wassily Kandinsky with art songs and piano pieces from his era... |
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The Front Row - Wade Wilson ART KUHF's Meghen Hendley heads over to Wade Wilson ART for a look at Revisions. It's the latest exhibition of work by arist Lucinda Cobley... |
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The Front Row - University of St. Thomas Singer-instrumentalists, Patricia Gras and Maraa Rimbau, tell us about the reunion concert that their Latino folk band, Barandua, plays tomorrow night at the University of Saint Thomas. It's a tribute to the late Argentinean folk-singer-songwriter, Mercedes Sosa and a benefit for the Pink Ribbons Project... |
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The Front Row - Talento Bilingue de Houston Ruben Gonzalez introduces us to his one-man, ten-character play, La Esquinita, USA, which takes us to a once-booming border town, now gripped by unemployment and financial disaster as the business community increasingly outsources barrio jobs to cheap labor pools in Asia. Senor Gonzalez performs his comedy-drama this weekend at Talento Bilingüe de Houston... |
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The Front Row - Christ the King Lutheran Church Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, director of the American Boychoir, talks about his ensemble of young singers, who join the Houston Boychoir in concert this evening at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Rice Village... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Danish Maestro Thomas Dausgaard talks about the Verdi Requiem, which he'll conduct with the Houston Symphony and Chorus in performances this weekend at Jones Hall.. |
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The Front Row - Houston Grand Opera Composer Jake Heggie and Houston Grand Opera Music Director, Patrick Summers, tell us about HGO's new production of Mister Heggie's opera, Dead Man Walking, based on the real-life story of anti-death-penalty activist, Sister Helen Prejean, and her work with convicted killer, Joseph De Rocher. The opera opens Saturday night at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row - Music in Context Shepherd School of Music faculty pianist, Brian Connelly, pays tribute to his fallen comrade, violinist Sergiu Luca, who passed away last month. Connelly plays pieces associated with Mr. Luca, previewing the solo recital he'll present Sunday at Rice University as part of the Music in Context chamber series, which Sergiu Luca co-founded... |
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The Front Row - International Festival-Institute at Round Top Distinguished Texas pianist James Dick performs live for us, previewing the solo recital of music of Beethoven and Liszt that he presents Saturday afternoon at the International Festival-Institute in Round Top, Texas. . . . |
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The Front Row - Houston Metropolitan Dance Company Choreographers Kiki Lucas and Jhon R. Stronks describe their newest dance pieces, which they'll introduce as Fifteen Two-Part Interactions, a program of movement, music and video, to be presented by the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company this Friday and Saturday night at the Barnevelder Movement /Arts Complex... |
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The Front Row - Jewish Community Center We look ahead to the first official performance of this year's Dance Month at the Jewish Community Center of Houston! Representatives of Hope Stone, NobleMotion and HIStory Dance Companies talk about the program, Triple Focus, an evening of contemporary and hip-hop works, coming up this weekend at the Kaplan Theater... |
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The Front Row - Bayou City Concert Musicals Paul Hope, Artistic Director of Bayou City Concert Musicals, shares some of his encyclopedic knowledge about Broadway musicals of the 60's. Mr. Hope continues his illustrated lecture series, The History of the American Musical Theatre, Sunday afternoon at Angie's Little Rotary House near the Northwest Mall... |
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Cast members, Denis Arndt and Bhama Roget, chat about the Alley Theatre's production of the savage comedy, God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza's Tony-Award-winning play about two seemingly civilized couples who meet after their sons get into a schoolyard fist-fight and all hell breaks loose... |
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The Front Row - Aperio: Music of the Americas Series Pianist and Artistic Director Michael Zuraw performs In a Landscape, a keyboard work by John Cage, previewing Deep Water and New Horizons, a concert that celebrates the relationship between the environment and music, to be presented by Aperio this coming Saturday night at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Houston Friends of Chamber Music Soprano Arianna Zukerman and cellist Keith Robinson of the Miami String Quartet, tell us about the recital of works by Schubert, Schumann, Ginastera and Respighi that they'll play for the Houston Friends of Chamber Music, tomorrow night, also at Rice University... |
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The Front Row - Houston Young Artist's Concerts Area classical-music virtuosi between the ages of nine and eighteen dazzle us with their musicianship as they preview the Houston Young Artists' Concerts that will take place this coming Saturday at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We meet guest conductor, Juraj Valcuha, and piano soloist, Inon Barnatan, who tell us about this weekend's Houston Symphony performances of works by Szymanowski, Mozart and Tchaikovsky... |
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The Front Row - Divas World Productions Tenor Kenneth Gayle (pictured) and members of the Houston Chamber Choir sing some of the Liebeslieder Waltzes by Johannes Brahms and keyboard artists, Matthew Dirst and Rodney Waters perform a movement from a Sonata by Mozart for Piano, Four-Hands. They're here to preview tonight's Divas World Productions Salon Series recital, Anybody Perfect? which looks at how composers' strivings for perfection affected their productivity and the works they created... |
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The Front Row - Musical Theatre of Houston Singer-actresses Elissa Levitt and Lendsey Kersey perform a couple of the hit tunes by the pioneering rock-and-roll songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The songs are ones that are included in the juke-box musical, Smokey Joe's Cafe, being presented by Musical Theatre of Houston this weekend only at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row - Warehouse Live Houston-Press-Award-winning jazz vocalist and song-writer, Kristine Mills, and her band perform new material previewing the CD-In-The-Works Party they're throwing tonight at The Warehouse Live... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Donald Harrison, Executive Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, talks about what experimental film-makers who still work with sixteen-millimeter celluloid are up to these days. The Aurora Picture Show and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston screen some of the prize-winning entries from the 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival Saturday night at the MFAH... |
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The Front Row - Broadway Across America We meet young actress-singer, Ali Ewoldt, who's appearing in the lead role of Maria in the national tour of the recent New York revival of West Side Story. The show opened a two-week run on the Broadway Across America series last night at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Author Sam Wasson previews tomorrow night's Artful Thursday event at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as he talks about his new book, Fifth Avenue, 5:00am: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman... |
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The Front Row - Main Street Theater Four members of the cast of Main Street Theater's equally-new production of the Broadway musical, A Catered Affair, perform numbers from that funny, poignant tale of a Bronx mother's efforts to give her only daughter the elaborate wedding she herself never had and which her daughter doesn't want... |
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The Front Row - Theater LaB Houston Stage-director Mark Adams and two of his players tell us about Theater LaB Houston's new production of Reasons to Be Pretty, the latest hard-hitting drama from playwright, Neil LaBute... |
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The Front Row - St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society String players from the Saint Cecilia Chamber Music Society play movements from Sextets by Tchaikovsky and his role-model, Mozart. They are pieces that the musicians will perform complete, tonight at Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church... |
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The Front Row - Anya Tish Gallery Romanian-born Texas artist, Adela Andea shows us her newest creations in the exhibition, Bioluminiscence, at the Anya Tish Gallery, in which she attempts to evoke natural environments and life-forms in sculptural works made out of what are obviously man-made and often totally artificial consumer products: computer components and cooling fans, plastic tubing, metal wires and switches and light-emitting devices... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Independent Bayou City film-maker Greg Carter tells us about his latest feature-length production, which re-sets the familiar tale of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet on the mean streets of contemporary urban America. Carter screens and discusses his film, A Gangland Love Story, Sunday evening at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston We celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Department of Latin-American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as we explore an exhibition of works by artists from South of the Border that come from the private holdings of art patrons who have helped the MFAH build its comprehensive collection of modern and contemporary Latin-American and Latino art.... |
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The Front Row - Channing Concerts We have a studio performance by The Greenbriar Consortium. They are members of the Houston Symphony and some of their colleagues from the Bayou City's community of professional musicians and they perform selections from the Channing Concert they're giving tomorrow evening at the Bayou City's First Unitarian-Universalist Church.... |
