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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.... |
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The Front Row - Grace Song Inc. Singers Julia Fox, Michael Kelly and Natalie Arduino, along with pianist and Artistic Director, Keith Weber perform music by Darius Milhaud, John Harbison and Benjamin Britten previewing their concert tomorrow night: Canticle I: My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His. It's a program of vocal works and art songs inspired by the Bible's paean to spiritual and earthly love, The Song of Solomon... |
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The Front Row - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Multi-disciplinary avant-garde artist, Benjamin Patterson, shows us the exhibition, Born in the State of Flux(us), a retrospective of his nearly 50-year career, on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Canadian jazz-pop vocalist, Matt Dusk, chats about The Music of Frank Sinatra, which he performs with the Houston Symphony on Pops Concerts this weekend at Jones Hall... |
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String players from the contemporary ensemble, Musiqa, perform Love Dogs, a trio by University of Michigan composer, Evan Chambers. The piece is on the bill of Real and Imagined, a program of new music and experimental film that Musiqa and The Aurora Picture Show present Saturday evening at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall... |
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The Front Row - Brazos Bookstore Fannie Flagg tells us about her new novel, I Still Dream About You, the tale of Maggie, an Alabama realtor and former beauty queen, whose plans to commit suicide keep getting interrupted by the constant wants, needs and demands of her clients, friends and job... |
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The Front Row - River Oaks Chamber Orchestra Mezzo-soprano Sonja Bruzauskas, tenor Timothy Jones and other cast members sing excerpts from Gian-Carlo Menotti's gentle fable of a Christmas Opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors which the vocal soloists and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra present twice this evening at Houston's Episcopal Church of Saint John the Divine... |
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The Front Row - Composer David Ashley White We celebrate composer David Ashley White, director of the University of Houston's Moores School of Music! We feature an encore broadcast of the Moores School's 10th Anniversary Tribute to Dr. White, who was honored just a little over a year ago on the occasion of his decade of service and 65th birthday. |
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The Front Row - Ars Lyrica Houston Artistic Director Matthew Dirst and record producer Keith Weber talk about Ars Lyrica Houston's CD of Johann Adolphe Hasse's Marc Antonio e Cleopatra, recently nominated for the Grammy Award for "Best Opera Recording"! |
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The Front Row - Flutist Hubert Laws We ring in 2011 by celebrating a native musical son: distinguished and versatile flutist, Hubert Laws. Mr. Laws tells stories about his journey from Houston's Wheatley High School to New York's Juilliard School, overcoming racial prejudice as an African-American classical musician in the 1950s, and collaborating with legends. Click below to access all three segments of this program. |
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The Front Row - Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo Husband-and-wife musicians, guitarist Robert Bekkers and pianist Anne Ku treat us to a salon concert from the Geary Performance Studio! Based in The Netherlands, the Bekkers Piano Guitar Duo stopped by KUHF during their recent U.S. tour and played selections from their new CD. Click below to access all three segments of this program. |
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The Front Row - Cinema Arts Society We chat with two of the "A List" actors, who were in town recently for the 2nd Annual Cinema Arts Festival Houston: John Turturro and Isabella Rossellini. Both actors chat with us about working with major directors (Spike Lee, the Cohen Brothers and David Lynch), as well as their own current film projects. Click below to access all three segments of this program. |
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The Front Row - Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky has been generating great excitement in Europe! We spend the hour chatting with Mr. Jaroussky about his musical journey. Plus, we hear excperts from his recent recordings. Click below to access all three segments of this program. |
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The Front Row - Pianist Clive Swansbourne We wrap up 2010's celebration of the bicentennials of the births of Romantic-era composers, Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann! In two previously-aired segments, British-born Houston pianist Clive Swansbourne performs for us and discusses the composers' personalities. Click below to access both segments of this show. |
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We welcome into KUHF's Geary Performance Studio the five members of the Bayou City's longest-running quintet, the Paragon Brass Ensemble! They play sparkling arrangments of traditional Christmas carols and seasonal favorites from the Great American songbook. Click below to access all three segments of this program. |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston In the second of our two features on the recently-opened Arts of China Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, we speak with the young Chinese artist, Cai Guo-Qiang, about Odyssey, the monumental "gunpowder painting" which he created to line the walls of the new Chinese Art exhibition space at the MFAH... |
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We have a live performance by the folk duo, Notorious Houston native, Eden MacAdam-Somer on fiddle and vocals, and Larry Unger on guitar and banjo, treat us to tunes from the fund-raising House Concert they're going to play Sunday in The Heights... |
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The Front Row - Cantare Houston Artistic Director Kevin Riehle directs our attention heavenward, as he tells us about Cantare Houston's holiday concert, Starry, Starry Nigh. The final performances of that program of celestial choral works are tomorrow night and next Monday evening at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Curator Christine Starkman shows us the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's brand-new Arts of China Gallery... |
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The Front Row - Broadway Across America Fresh from his pairing with Bristol Palin on TV's "Dancing with the Stars," Mark Ballas chats about his role in the Broadway show, Burn the Floor, a pumped-up ballroom-dance extravaganza, which is dazzling audiences at Houston's Hobby Center this week... |
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The Front Row - Earthen Vessels: The Sandra Organ Dance Company Artistic Director Sandra Organ Solis previews her dance troupe's annual production of Amahl and the Night Visitors, a ballet adaptation of the heart-warming one-act Christmas opera by Gian Carlo Menotti. Earthen Vessels: The Sandra Organ Dance Company performs the piece this weekend at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Today, rising young English conductor, Matthew Halls, talks about his interpretation of George Frideric Handel's Oratorio, Messiah, which he leads in performances by the Houston Symphony and Chorus, tomorrow night through Sunday at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Grand 1894 Opera House Tony-nominated performer-writers, Joe Sears and Jaston Williams, preview the latest version of Tuna Christmas, their hilarious two-man, twenty-two-character show chronicling the holiday antics of the citizens of the fictional, eccentric, small town of Tuna, Texas. A Tuna Christmas is running this week at The Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston... |
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Director James Black talks about the Alley Theatre's production of that Yuletide favorite, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol... |
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The Front Row - River Oaks Bookstore Editor David Theis introduces us to Literary Houston, a new anthology in which he has pulled together a wide range of writing about the Bayou City drawing from Houston authors such as Antonya Nelson and others who have passed through and written fiction, poetry or essays inspired by our local culture, including H. L. Mencken, Larry McMurtry and Norman Mailer... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston At the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, we visit the exhibition, Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria... |
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The Front Row - Stages Repertory Theatre Artistic Director, Kenn McLaughlin, and cast members, Susan O. Koozin and Ryan Schabach, describe Stages Repertory Theatre's production of Panto Pinocchio, a modern-day spin on the classic fairy-tale, filled with comedy, slapstick, improvisation and original music... |
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The Front Row - Classical Theatre Company In his day, Charles Dickens was known as "Father Christmas" for penning not only A Christmas Carol, but four other Yuletide novellas and a book-length collection of Christmas short-stories. Today, here on our program, director Kate Pogue and actors from Houston's Classical Theatre Company tell us about and perform portions of some of those other Dickens holiday tales, two of which they'll present in a staged reading tomorrow evening at the Brazos Bookstore... |
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The Front Row - Houston Early Music Today, we talk with Adam and Rotem Gilbert, co-directors of the Southern-California-based Renaissance wind band, Ciaramella, whose Yuletide concert, A Piper's Noel, is Houston Early Music's seasonal offering for 2010. It takes place tonight at Christ Church Cathedral, downtown... |
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The Front Row - Revels Houston Bayou-City-based traditional Celtic band, Cymry, led by multi-instrumentalist, Al Cofrin, with E. J. Jones on bagpipes and flute, along with Artistic Director, Beth Sanford, give us a musical preview of this year's Christmas Revels Celtic Celebration of the Winter Solstice, opening this weekend at the University of Houston... |
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The Front Row - Unhinged Productions Artistic Director, Joe Angel Babb, talks about Unhinged Productions' staging of A Queer Carol, Joe Godfrey's surprisingly-faithful-to-the-original GAY reworking of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol... |
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The Front Row - United Nations Association International Choir Phillip Kloeckner, Artistic Director of the Houston-based United Nations Association International Choir, talks about the chorus's seasonal concert, Harmony for the Holidays, which celebrates Christmas, Hanukkah, and other Winter festivals with songs, carols and classical selections from at least a Baker's dozen of nations and cultures and sung in as many languages. The performance takes place tomorrow evening at Episcopal High School... |
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The Front Row - Rice University We have a jazz session from the Geary Performance Studio with vocalist Jacqui Sutton and her Frontier Jazz Orchestra! Ms. Sutton demonstrates her unique style that fuses jazz and bluegrass and treats us to songs from her new CD, Billie and Dolly, which she and her Band will celebrate with a Concert and Release Party tomorrow evening at Rice University's Duncan Recital Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Grand Opera We welcome Francis Greep, the new Head of Music Staff at Houston Grand Opera, and HGO Studio Artist, tenor Brendan Touhy; together they perform songs by Venezuelan-French composer, Reynaldo Hahn, previewing La Belle Epoque (et un Joyeux Noel), a recital that they and other HGO Studio Artists will present this weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's House Museum, Rienzi... |
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The Front Row - Mercury Baroque Members of Mercury Baroque perform live selections from George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Messiah, previewing their weekend performances of three different versions of the masterpiece - a sing-along Messiah, a special program of highlights, meant for families and children and the rarely-heard original edition of the oratorio, as it was presented by the composer himself in Dublin, Ireland, in 1742... |
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The Front Row - Main Street Theater Director Rebecca Greene Udden and actress Cheryl L. Kaplan chat about Main Street Theater's production of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer-Prize-winning play, The Heidi Chronicles... |
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The Front Row - Houston Chamber Choir Artistic Director Robert Simpson previews Christmas at the Villa, the Houston Chamber Choir's annual holiday concert that has become a Bayou City tradition. It's coming up this weekend at the Villa de Matel... |
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The Front Row - Catastrophic Theatre We welcome singer-actor Matt Kelly, Music Director, John Duboise and the band and writer/director Jason Nodler, for studio performances of some of the songs from Bluefinger, The Catastrophic Theatre's new rock musical that tells the true story of hard-living Dutch rock star and visual artist, Herman Brood (pictured), who committed suicide in 2001... |
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The Front Row - Houston Friends of Chamber Music Today, one of the counter-tenors and the new bass from the popular British vocal ensemble, The King's Singers, tell us about the holiday program of poetry, carols, and songs that they'll present tonight at Rice University on the Houston Friends of Chamber Music’s concert series... |
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The Front Row - Lawndale Art Center We look at the exhibition, In and Out of Whack, at the Lawndale Art Center, in which Alabama artist, Deb Karpman, explore ideas relating to our tendency to appropriate, collect and attach sentimental value to even the silliest, most trivial of things... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Pops Houston Symphony Principal Pops conductor Michael Krajewski tells us about Dan Menendez, "The Piano Juggler" and about Karolju, a set of original Christmas carols by contemporary American composer, Christopher Rouse, both make their Bayou City debuts on the Symphony's Very Merry Pops program... |
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The Front Row - Houston Public Radio Austin's Invincible Czars perform excerpts from their Gypsy-Rock version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, which they'll perform in its entirety, this evening at the University of Houston's Blaffer Art Museum... |
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The Front Row - Da Camera Houston Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen talks about her Da Camera-sponsored tribute to Benny Goodman... |
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The Front Row - Piping Rock Singers The Bayou City's Piping Rock Singers perform Advent and Christmas carols and motets from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Eras, previewing their holiday concert, Veni, Veni... |
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The Front Row - Imprint/Brown Reading Series Author Salman Rushdie tells us about his latest novel, a fantasy-adventure fable titled, Luka and the Fire of Life... |
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Pennsylvania artist and filmmaker, Brent Green, shows us Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, his whimsical installation of video, sculpture and sound at DiverseWorks, based on a rather poignant true-life story... |
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The Front Row - Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church Composer Christopher Walczak a graduate student at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, talks about his brand-new Violin Concerto, which receives its World Premiere this weekend right here in Houston! Violin soloist Sonja Harasim (pictured), cellist Lachezar Kostov and pianist Keith Weber also join us to preview and play music from that concert, which they and colleagues present Sunday evening at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church... |
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Albert LeDoux, Artistic Director of the Bach Society, previews his chorus's Sunday Evening Music concert, which includes two of J.S. Bach's best-known Advent Cantatas... |
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