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The Front Row - Menil Collection Editor-publisher, Laureen Schipsi, and architectural historian, Stephen Fox, talk about the legacy of a pair of art patrons, social activists and philanthropists who had an incalculable impact on the cultural life of this city. Ms. Schipsi and Mr. Fox are contributors to a sumptuous new book, Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil, to be released at a party to which everyone is invited Wednesday evening at the Menil Collection... |
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The Front Row - Moores School of Music Moores School of Music violist, Lawrence Wheeler, plays one of his own compositions, eulogizing a colleague who recently passed away, and previewing the faculty recital he'll perform tomorrow evening at the U of H... |
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The Front Row - Da Camera of Houston Jazz vocalist, Tierney Sutton, performs live for us in the George Geary Performance Studio. She previews the Da Camera-sponsored concert she and her band will give tonight at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row - Aurora Picture Show We chat with visual and media artist, composer and performer, Christian Marclay. He's the winner of this year's Aurora Picture Show Award. Marclay pioneered the sound-mixing and collage techniques utilizing LP records and turntables that are employed by today's hip-hop and scratch artists... |
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The Front Row - Shepherd School of Music Composer Michael Gandolfi and Rice University staff conductor, Cristian Macelaru, tell us about Sunday afternoon's concert of contemporary works, including Gandolfi's Points of Departure, by the Shepherd School of Music Chamber Orchestra... |
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The Front Row - Foundation for Modern Music The Foundation for Modern Music celebrates Mexico's Bicentennial this Saturday night at Miller Outdoor Theatre! Artistic Director, Raul Orlando Edwards, and Estevan Ascona, Music Director of MECA, chat about La Cancion Mexicana, a program of music and dance that pays homage to Latin-American culture with timeless boleros, classical pieces and mariachi favorites... |
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The Front Row - Houston Grand Opera Houston Grand Opera's new production of Benjamin Britten's musical morality tale, Peter Grimes, opens this week at the Wortham Center. We speak with HGO Music Director, Patrick Summers and with tenor, Anthony Dean Griffey, who takes on the title role... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Renowned Finnish conductor, Hannu Lintu (pictured), previews this weekend's Houston Symphony performances of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony and Markus Groh talks about making his local debut as soloist in Liszt's Piano Concerto Number One on that same program... |
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The Front Row - Grand 1894 Opera House We preview Burn The Floor, the non-stop international dance extravaganza! Two of the award-winning dancers from the show's U.S. tour cast, Ashleigh and Ryan di Lello, chat with us about their moves, which they bring to Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House this Friday and Saturday... |
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The Front Row - Main Street Theater Playwright Thomas Hagemann and director Andrew Ruthven talk about Breakfast at Eight, Mister Hagemann's drama that explores the fragility of marriage. The play is in the midst of its World Premiere run at Main Street Theater... |
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The Front Row - Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart We meet Philippe Lefebvre, organist at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, who comes to Houston Friday evening to give a concert on the new Opus 19 Pasi Pipe Organ at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, downtown... |
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The Front Row - Urban Souls Dance Company General Manager, Walter Hull, and Artistic Director, Harrison Guy, chat about Urban Souls Dance Company's season-opening production, Touched By Five, which they'll present one time only, Saturday night at Houston Baptist University... |
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The Front Row - Bootown Theatre Company Artistic Director Emily Hynds and actor Cris Skelton preview Bootown Theater Company's Halloween show, The Farmer and the Badger, based on a Japanese folktale... |
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The Front Row - Kingwood United Methodist Church We chat with Matthew D. Ottman, Music Director of the world's most popular all-male vocal ensemble, Chanticleer, which performs tomorrow evening at Kingwood United Methodist Church... |
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The Front Row - Blaffer Art Museum And we look at films created by Berlin-based, Texas-born visual artist, Amy Patton - including one commissioned specifically for her current exhibition at the University of Houston's Blaffer Art Museum, which presents a panel discussion about Ms. Patton's work on Wednesday evening... |
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The Front Row - Broadway Across America We meet actor-singer David F. M. Vaughn, who steals the show as the vain, conniving and ruthless little squirt of a villain, Lord Farquaad, in the national touring production of Shrek The Musical, playing through this week only at downtown Houston's Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Channing Concerts Houston Symphony oboist, Anne Leek (pictured); Mezzo-soprano, Alys Dyke and Bayou-City-based composer, Mary Carol Warwick tell us about Doctor Warwick's new set of vocal pieces, Journey To Song settings of poems written by area women who are dealing with Breast Cancer. Tomorrow evening at First Unitarian-Universalist Church, The Greenbriar Consortium presents the World Premiere of Ms. Warwick's song cycle, in a Channing Concert presented in collaboration with The Pink Ribbons Project... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Pops Trumpeter Chris Botti, previews the program of love songs, movie themes and old standards he's performing this weekend with the Houston Symphony Pops... |
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The Front Row - KUHF Silent Film Concert Series Austin composer, keyboard player and band leader, Graham Reynolds, plays samples of the original score he's created for the 1927 silent film, Wings - the first movie ever to win the Academy Award for "Best Picture". KUHF will screen Wings tonight at Discovery Green, downtown, while Graham's Golden Arm Trio accompanies the film with a live performance of the music he wrote for it... |
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Today, we introduce you to Lithuanian pianist, Petras Geniusas who tells us about the recital of solo keyboard works by Robert Schumann and Lithuanian composers that he'll perform tomorrow afternoon at the Rothko Chapel... |
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Jazz pianist, Matt Lemmler, now re-established back home in New Orleans after five years of Hurricane-Katrina-induced exile here in Houston, tells us about the sets his reconstituted New Orleans Quartet will play this weekend at the Montrose-area jazz club, Cézanne and we'll hear tracks from the band's not-yet-released new album, Spiritual... |
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The Front Row - Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Director Jennifer Decker and actress, Elizabeth Seabolt-Esparza, are two of the players in the Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company production of Christopher Durang's autobiographical black comedy, The Marriage of Bette and Boo. |
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The Front Row - Houston Grand Opera Today, a preview of Houston Grand Opera's new staging of Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly, which opens Friday at the Wortham Center. We speak with soprano, Ana MariÂa Martinez, who is taking on the title role of Cio-Cio-San for the first time - tenor Joseph Calleja, who plays Pinkerton, Butterfly's faithless American husband - and Tony-Award-winning Broadway director, Michael Grandage, who's making his U.S. operatic debut with this production... |
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The Front Row - Brazos Bookstore Best-selling writer Myla Goldberg chats about her new novel, The False Friend, a haunting psychological tale about a young woman's longing to understand her childhood best friend's disappearance years ago and the role she played in her friend's vanishing. Ms. Goldberg stops by Brazos Bookstore tonight! |
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The Front Row - Moores Opera Center Singers from the University of Houston's Moores Opera Center, with Director Buck Ross and guest musical director Stephen Sulich, perform rollicking, high-kicking and hilarious music from Jacques Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne (The Parisian Life)! |
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The Front Row - Dominic Walsh Dance Theater Artistic Director Dominic Walsh and Aurelie Cayla, an associate of acclaimed Czech choreographer Jiri Kylian, preview the First Course of Dominic Walsh Dance Theater's season, which includes a duet from Kylian's dance-trilogy, 27'52". |
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Hurricane Katrina brought about major changes in the lives and work of Louisiana artists. We meet one of them, Elizabeth Kleinveld, whose photographs are featured in the exhibition, Before (During) After, at DiverseWorks. |
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The Front Row - Mauricio Nader, pianist Acclaimed Mexican pianist Mauricio Nader, a graduate of the University of Houston's Moores School of Music, performs live for us! |
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The Front Row - The Alley Theatre We speak with actors Jay Sullivan and Elizabeth Bunch, who play "Peter" and "Wendy" in the Alley Theatre's production of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. |
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The Front Row - Divas World Productions Musicians and singers from Divas World Productions, including mezzo-soprano Sonja Bruzauskas [pictured], perform for us, previewing Worldly Perspectives, a Song Salon that looks at the Earth and Moon from a variety of musical, cultural and cosmic viewpoints. |
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The Front Row - Theater LaB Houston Canadian writer, actress and performance artist, Gemma Wilcox, talks about her one-woman show, Shadows in Bloom, in which she plays 20 characters (plant, human and animal) while examining relationships and the ticking biological clock. Theater LaB Houston presents her show this weekend. |
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The Front Row - River Oaks Chamber Orchestra River Oaks Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director Alecia Lawyer, renowned guest conductor JoAnn Falletta, composer Scott McAllister and bassist Sandor Oslund join us in the Geary Performance Studio! We preview ROCO's season-opener, which includes Scott McAllister's World Premiere Concerto for Double Bass. |
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We chat with composer Stewart Wallace about She Told Me This, his new chamber piece commissioned by Musiqa, which presents its World Premiere on Saturday! The work is based on the composer's own operatic adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Bonesetter's Daughter. |
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The Front Row - Louis A. Markos, Professor of English Houston Baptist University English Professor, Louis A. Markos, tells us about the ancient Greek tragedy, Oresteia by Aeschylus, which will be performed by Athens-based company, The Theatrical Scheme, tomorrow night! |
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The Front Row - International Festival Institute at Round Top Acclaimed young American pianist, Roger Wright, performs live for us, previewing his recital coming up Saturday afternoon on Festival Hill in Roundtop, Texas! |
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Choreographer Yasuko Yokoshi talks about Tyler Tyler, her contemporary "deconstruction" of a classical kabuki dance-theatre piece, which she presents this weekend at DiverseWorks! |
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Artistic Director Viswa Subbaraman and three of the singers from Opera Vista perform music from a World Premiere "Bollywood" opera, The Silent Prince. |
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The Front Row - Classical Theatre Company Artistic Director John Johnston [pictured] and cast members, Philip Lehl [pictured] and Christianne Mays, discuss the Classical Theatre Company's production of Henrik Ibsen's drama, Ghosts, a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. |
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The Front Row - KDNY & CORE Performance Company New York choreographer Kathleen Dyer [pictured] and Houston dancer-choregraphers Teresa Chapeman, Leslie Scates and Sue Schroeder talk about Navigating the Hallway, a study-in-motion of the ways modern Americans can be surrounded by other people and still be isolated and alone. |
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The Front Row - Aperio: Music of the Americas Pianist & Artistic Director Michael Zuraw sits down at the KUHF Steinway to preview Aperio's season-opening concert, Armonias Colombianas: Colombian Harmonies. |
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The Front Row - Houston Friends of Chamber Music Members of the Chiara String Quartet and composer Gabriela Lena Frank talk about the World Premiere of Milagros (Miracles), which the quartet performs on its concert tonight on the Houston Friends of Chamber Music Series! |
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The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts The MOMIX contemporary dance company creates a magical alternative world of trees, plants and flowers in its latest show, Botanica. Society for the Performing Arts brings MOMIX to Houston this weekend, and we chat with MOMIX Founder & Artistic Director Moses Pendleton! |
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The Front Row - Wordsmyth Theater Company We meet award-winning Seattle playwright, Mara Lathrop, who introduces us to her surrealistic, time-traveling drama, The Garden of Monsters, which will be presented on tonight's staged reading by Wordsmyth Theater Company. |
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The Front Row - Inprint Houston Mexico's greatest living writer, Carlos Fuentes, talks about creativity, humanism and politics in contemporary Latin-American literature. Carlos Fuentes is the featured speaker tonight on the Inprint Brown Reading Series. |
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The Front Row - Cantare Houston Artistic Director Kevin Riehle talks about the choral singing traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church and specifically about Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, which Cantare Houston performs this week! |
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The Front Row - Mercury Baroque Artistic Director Antoine Plante and six members of his Mercury Baroque orchestra perfom live, previewing Exotique!, their concert of French Baroque pieces that evoke foreign, faraway lands! |
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The Front Row - Composer Malek Jandali Syrian-American pianist & composer, Malek Jandali, plays some of his original works, inspired by the oldest noted music in the world, discovered in Syria and dating back to 3400 B.C.! |
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The Front Row - The Ensemble Theatre Actors John Stevens and Detria Ward [pictured, right] talk about the Ensemble Theatre's current production, The Waiting Room by Samm-Art Williams, a touching comedy about secrets that spill out in a hospital lobby, as the Innes family gather to support their ailing patriarch. |
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The Front Row - Shepherd School of Music Composers Bernard Rands [pictured] and Pierre Jalbert, mezzo-soprano Suzanne Mentzer and the Fischer Duo discuss and perform selections from the SYZYGY: New Music at Rice concert! |
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The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts We chat with This American Life producer & host, Ira Glass, who comes to Houston with a behind-the-scenes look at his beloved public radio show. Society for the Performing Arts presents Ira Glass in Radio Stories & Other Stories on stage at Jones Hall this Saturday, October 9. |
