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Artistic Director, Jeannette Clift George and stage-director, Patty Tuel Bailey, tell us about A.D. Player's unique holiday offering. A Christmas Unwrapped is a collection of four one-act Yuletide comedies written by Ms. George. At each performance, the actors present a different combination of three of the plays, chosen, grab-bag fashion, by the audience... |
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The Front Row - Houston Chamber Choir Robert Simpson, Artistic Director of the Houston Chamber Choir talks about his ensemble's Saturday evening performance of Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria and the Christmas portions of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Messiah... |
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The Front Row - Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Juror Cindy Hickok and craft artist, Clark Kellogg and Catherine Winkler, show us award-winning mixed-media and wood pieces in the exhibition, Craft Texas 2010, at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft... |
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The Front Row - Lawndale Art Center At the Lawndale Art Center, we look at a digital media installation by New Orleans artist, David Sullivan, titled Fugitive Emissions. His HD videos, which he calls "animated paintings", combine abstract gestural brushstrokes with 3-D computer graphics to explore our dependency on petrochemical processing and how technology and industrial production affect living systems... |
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The Front Row - Theatre New West Joe Watts, Artistic Director of Theatre New West, and his lead player, Steve Bullitt (both pictured), talk about The Normal Heart, the polemical and powerful 1985 AIDS drama by writer and social activist, Larry Kramer. Theatre New West presents a Silver Anniversary staged directed of The Normal Heart on World AIDS Day - Wednesday - at Stages Repertory Theatre as a benefit for Houston's GLBT Community Center... |
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The Front Row - Theatre Under the Stars We enter the whimsical world of Dr. Seuss, as we preview How The Grinch Stole Christmas: The Musical, presented by Theatre Under The Stars. Actor Stefán Karl from TV's Nickelodeon Channel talks about his starring role as that "mean one, Mister Grinch." The show opens tonight at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Ensemble Theatre "Cinderella" and "Prince Charming" stop into The Front Row today. We meet actors Teacake and Roc Living, who have taken on those lead roles in the Ensemble Theatre's clever, updated, musical version of Cinderella... |
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The Front Row - Houston Ballet Houston Ballet dancer, Lauren Ciobanu, chats about her Bayou City debut as the "Sugar Plum Fairy" in this season's staging of The Nutcracker, opening Friday at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row - Texas Repertory Theatre Company The entire cast of four singer-actors - along with Artistic Director, Craig Miller, and Music Director, Luke Kirkwood - treat us to some of the classic pop tunes from the 40's and 50's that are included in the company's staging of the nostalgic holiday musical, Plaid Tidings: The "Forever Plaid" Christmas Show... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Assistant Curator Dena Woodall shows us works on paper by three leading German Impressionists in the exhibition, Drawing from Nature: Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth and Slevogt, on view for two more weeks at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston... |
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The Front Row - Menil Collection Assistant Curator, Clare Elliott, shows us visual art pieces in Earth, Paint, Paper and Wood that have been acquired in recent years by the Menil Collection, but never, up until now, put on display in a public exhibition... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We meet Lawrence Siegel, composer of a monumental new choral symphony, Kaddish: I Am Here which chronicles, in their own words, the heroic journeys of fifteen survivors of the Holocaust, including four who live here in the Bayou City. The Houston Symphony and Chorus present the work's World Premiere, tomorrow night in a special concert at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Theatre Under the Stars Singer-actresses Dee Hoty, Mamie Parris and Diana DeGarmo of TV's American Idol chat about Nine to Five: The Musical! Theatre Under The Stars is presenting the show's national touring company at the Hobby Center through Sunday... |
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The Front Row - Foundation for Modern Music Resident Conductor Jaemi Blair Loeb (pictured) discusses Histoire du soldat - The Soldier's Tale, Igor Stravinsky's work for actors and musicians, based on Russian folklore which the Foundation for Modern Music presents Sunday afternoon at the University of Houston... |
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The Front Row - KUHF Silent Film Concert Series Members of Two-Star Symphony treat us to excerpts from their original score for a collection of early avant-garde films, Unseen Cinema, which will be screened as Two-Star Symphony plays their accompanying music-track, LIVE, tonight at Discovery Green Park. It's this month's offering from KUHF's Silent Film Concert Series... |
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The Front Row - Houston Chamber Choir We preview the Houston Chamber Choir's concert, Heinrich Schutz, The Master of Baroque Dresden. Artistic Director, Robert Simpson, and German conductor, Manfred Cordes, a Schutz specialist, chat about the program, to be presented tomorrow evening at Houston's First Evangelical Lutheran Church and Sunday afternoon on Festival Hill in Round Top... |
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The Front Row - Mercury Baroque Members of Mercury Baroque perform excerpts from Montezuma, Antonio Vivaldi's opera that was lost for 250 years! Mercury Baroque presents Montezuma Saturday night at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row - Pandora Theatre Company Artistic Director, Nicole Lawson Chelly, and cast member, Melissa Mumper, talk about Pandora Theatre Company's production of The Good Body by Eve Ensler, the creator of The Vagina Monologues. Final performances are tomorrow night and Saturday at the Midtown Arts Center... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We meet German violinist and 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner, Augustin Hadelich, who performs this week with the Houston Symphony. He and Music Director Hans Graf preview the program of Ravel, Chausson, Bartok and Brahms, that they'll present tonight, Saturday and Sunday at Jones Hall... |
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We have live music-making by French jazz pianist, Franck Amsallem, Bayou City saxophonist Woody Witt and University of North Texas bassist, Lynn Seaton, and drummer, Rich DeRosa. They treat us to selections from the sets they'll play this weekend at Houston's Cezanne nightclub. It's a program of swinging jazz re-interpretations of classical pieces by French composers... |
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Suchu Dance Artistic Director, Jennifer Wood, talks about her company's fall concert, I Can Move Small Objects With My Mind a program of three humorous and dynamic contemporary dance works. There are three performances this weekend at the Barnevelder Movement/ Arts Complex... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Art historian John T. Spike offers us glimpses into the early life and the world of one of the greatest visual artists of all time, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Dr. Spike is the speaker at this week's Artful Thursday event at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His talk, Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine, is based on his book of the same name, which paints a vivid portrait of the legendary artist's first thirty-three years... |
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The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts Today, the Ahn Trio performs for us. The popular and acclaimed Juilliard-trained sisters from Seoul, South Korea, pianist Lucia, cellist Maria and violinist Angella Ahn preview their Society-for-the-Performing-Arts-sponsored concert of Brazilian music, coming up tomorrow night at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row - Masquerade Theatre Actors from Masquerade Theatre treat us to songs from their production of The Drowsy Chaperone. Described as a "love letter" to the musical comedies of the Jazz Age of the 1920's, The Drowsy Chaperone opens Friday at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Moores School of Music Composers Bill Ryan from Michigan and Paul Steinberg from upstate New York join us in the studio as members of the Moores School of Music's AURA Contemporary Ensemble play solo works by each of them, pieces that are part of AURA's concert, called Tributes, to be presented tonight at the University of Houston's Moores Opera House... |
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The Front Row - St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society Classic Grandeur is the title of the next recital in the Saint Cecilia Chamber Music Series. Saint Cecilia artists, Sophia Silivos, violin, Barrett Sills, cello and Rodney Waters, piano play Schubert for us previewing their concert set for tomorrow evening at Houston's Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church... |
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The Front Row - Greater Houston Guitar Guild South Carolina-based Russian guitarist, Marina Alexandra, performs live for us, previewing the house-concert she's going to give tomorrow evening, presented by the Greater Houston Guitar Guild... |
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The Front Row - Impulse Artist Series We meet two of the emerging musicians who are featured on this year's Impulse Artist Series: pianist, rock musician and composer, Kris Becker and classical and jazz trumpeter, Suresh Singaratnam. They play selections from their weekend recitals at the Wade Wilson Art Gallery and Impulse Series founder Jade Simmons talks about the theme of this year's festival: Alter Ego having to do with the double lives led by many of today's younger-generation professional musicians... |
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The Front Row - Jewish Book and Arts Fair Moroccan-Israeli singer, Smadar Levi, and her band joined by Ori Beanstock of the Turkish world-music ensemble, Esta perform songs from their concert, Lumaraz: Music of Old and New North Africa to the Middle East, coming up Saturday night as part of this year's Jewish Book and Arts Fair at the Jewish Community Center of Houston... |
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The Front Row - Cirque de Soleil Artistic Director Tim Smith describes the lush, surreal and breath-taking world of kings, jesters and minstrels that Cirque du Soleil acrobats, clowns, characters and contortionists bring to life in its classic production, Alegria, which is playing through this weekend at the Toyota Center... |
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The Front Row - Houston Young Artist's Concerts Renowned French pianist Pascal Roge and his partner in life and music, Ami Roge, perform live for us! Ms. Roge, an acclaimed pianist in her own right, is also an alumna of the Houston Young Artists' Concerts, which presents the husband-and-wife duo in recital in the program, Four Hands and Two Hearts, Friday evening at Rice University's Stude Concert Hall... |
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The Front Row - Ars Lyrica Houston Early-music specialist Matthew Dirst talks about one of history's most extravagant examples of liturgical music, Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin. His ensemble, Ars Lyrica Houston, the Orpheus Chamber Singers from Dallas and the San Francisco-based Renaissance wind band, The Whole Noyse perform this monumental work Friday night at the Hobby Center, in celebration of the Vespers' 400th anniversary... |
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The Front Row - Texas Medical Center Orchestra We feature a performance by violinist Rodica Gonzalez, cellist Ellie Herrera and pianist Ilgin Aka also known as the Tre Voci Trio! They're joined by Libi Lebel, Artistic Director of the Texas Medical Center Orchestra, to chat about their Sunday afternoon concert at the Wortham Center, which includes the regional premiere of Mark O'Connor's March of the Gypsy Fiddler, a Concerto for Piano Trio and Orchestra... |
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The Front Row - Houston Grand Opera Today, we preview the planet's first mariachi opera, Cruzar La Cara de la Luna - To Cross the Face of the Moon which has its World Premiere Saturday at the Wortham Center! Singers Cecilia Duarte and Vanessa Olonzo perform excerpts and librettist and director Leonard Foglia talks about Houston Grand Opera's production of this exciting new work, which features a score by Jose Pepe Martinez of the world-famous Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan... |
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The Front Row - Houston Friends of Chamber Music Today, violist Josef Kluson of the Prazak Quartet, talks about the recital his ensemble is going to play tonight for the Houston Friends of Chamber Music in Rice University's Stude Concert Hall. Their program includes works by Haydn, Smetana and Schulhoff... |
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The Front Row - Murder by the Book We chat with best-selling crime-fiction writer, Dennis Lehane -- author of Mystic River, Shutter Island and Gone, Baby, Gone -- all of which were adapted into major motion pictures. This evening at Murder By The Book... |
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The Front Row - Aperio: Music of the Americas Series Pianist and Artistic Director, Michael Zuraw, violinist Andres Gonzalez and cellist Daniel Saenz of the Aperio: Music of the Americas Series, perform for us! They preview the group's upcoming concert of tango-inspired chamber music by Astor Piazzolla and his peers. It takes place Sunday afternoon at the Texas Gallery... |
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The Front Row - Cinema Arts Festival We re-acquaint ourselves with Richard Herskowitz, the Artistic Director of Houston's Cinema Arts Festival, the nation's only annual celebration of motion pictures that focus solely on films that are inspired by, based on, or are about the visual, performing and literary arts... |
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The Front Row - Impulse Artist Series Today, the first of two studio sessions with the emerging young musicians whose virtuosity is being showcased in this year's Impulse Artist Series, which this year is concentrating on up-and-comers who are comfortable in more than one musical genre -- not only classical -- but also jazz, experimental and even rock. This afternoon, we offer studio performances by classical, jazz and hip-hop harpist, Brandee Younger and pianist, toy pianist and multi-media performer, Phyllis Chen... |
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The Front Row - Houston Masterworks Chorus Laura Blackmon, the Interim Conductor of the Houston Masterworks Chorus, talks about the choral music of 19th century Austrian symphonist, Anton Bruckner. The Masterworks Chorus performs a sampling of Bruckner's works for voices tomorrow evening at downtown Houston's Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart on a program entitled Celebrate Bruckner -- Te Deum and Five Motets... |
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Legendary jazz pianist, composer and vocalist, Bob Dorough stops into the Geary Performance Studio. He shares tracks from his various albums, including Houston Branch, the one he recorded here in the Bayou City with the same local musicians who will perform with him tonight and tomorrow evening at the Montrose-area jazz spot, Cezanne... |
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The Front Row - Divergence Vocal Theater Singers Misha Penton and Natasha Manley join us in the studio - along with composer, Elliott Cooper Cole - to share excerpts from Selkie, A Sea Tale, a brand-new, original chamber-opera/theater piece which Divergence Vocal Theater premieres this weekend at the Obsidian Arts Space in The Heights... |
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The Front Row - Jewish Book and Arts Fair Writer Sharon Pomerantz chats about her new novel, Rich Boy, the story of the favored son of a working-class Jewish family and his journey from a humble Philadelphia neighborhood to the highest social circles of Manhattan. Ms. Pomerantz reads from and discusses her book this evening at the 38th annual Jewish Book and Arts Fair at the Jewish Community Center of Houston... |
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The Front Row - Tuesday Musical Club Russian-born, Bayou-City pianist, Zoya Shuhatovich, performs live for us, previewing the "bon voyage" concert she'll give Sunday for Houston's Tuesday Musical Club, as she prepares to make her recital debut at London's famous Church of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields... |
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The Front Row - Voices Breaking Bounderies Today, we celebrate the idea of bringing people together through the arts, as we preview Women's Voices, a multi-disciplinary "Living Room Art" event to be presented by Voices Breaking Boundaries Saturday night. Director and Event Producer, Sehba Sarwar talks about this evening of performance, film, music and visual art which honors two community leaders who also join us on the air: Alice Valdez, Founding Director of Houston's MECA center and Sheema Kermani, dancer and founder of a grass-roots arts organization in Karachi, Pakistan... |
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The Front Row - Ad Deum Dance Company Artistic Director and choreographer, Randall Flinn, previews the eclectic, inspiring works on the program, A Time For Fall, A Time for Rise, which his Ad Deum Dance Company performs this weekend at the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex... |
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The Front Row - I'm Ready Productions Houston playwright Je'Caryous Johnson (pictured) and actress Jill Marie Jones from the T.V. series, Girlfriends, introduce us to Mister Johnson's new romantic stage-comedy, Marriage Material, running this week only at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Opera in the Heights We have a studio performance by singers from Opera in the Heights! Stage-director, Ben Spierman, joins us also, to talk about the company's new production of Johann Strauss Junior's Die Fledermaus, which opens tomorrow night at Lambert Hall... |
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The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts Pianists Desirae, Melody and Gregory Brown, of the Houston-born, Juilliard-trained sibling act known as The Five Browns, chat about the classics and movie themes that they'll perform on their Society for the Performing Arts concert this Saturday night at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts Founder and Artistic Director Jacques Heim describes the daring, architectural dance pieces that his company, Diavolo Dance Theater, brings to Jones Hall on Friday night, presented by Society for the Performing Arts... |
