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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. |
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The Front Row - Texas Repertory Theatre Company The game's afoot in a contest of revenge and wits that could have fatal consequences! The Texas Repertory Theatre Company presents Anthony Schaffer's comedy-thriller, Sleuth. and we chat with the director and two lead actors from the show. |
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The Front Row - Gulf Coast Reading Series The Gulf Coast Reading Series presents the latest poetry and fiction from emerging writers at the Brazos Bookstore. We meet this month's featured writers: Karyna McGlinn [pictured] and Jason Daniels, both graduate students in the University of Houston's nationally-acclaimed Creative Writing Program. |
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The Front Row - Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart We hear about the art and science of the new Opus XIX Pasi Pipe Organ at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart from its builder and the first organists who'll play on the mighty, new instrument! |
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The Front Row - Intrepid Fringe Actors Hal Evans [pictured] and Tracy Elizabeth Hults talk about Intrepid Fringe's new production of Shakespeare's darkest tragedy, King Lear, updated with a stark, minimalistic and industrial set design and aesthetic. |
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The Front Row - Theatre Under The Stars We chat with cast members of Theatre Under The Star's production of Hairspray: Katrina Rose Dideriksen [pictured], who stars as "Tracy Turnblad," and Paul Vogt, who takes on the traditional drag role of Tracy's mom "Edna." |
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The Front Row - John Cleary Gallery Photographic rtist Jeffrey Becom shows us Mirage: Images of India, his current exhibition at the John Cleary Gallery. |
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Artistic Director & actress Jeannette Clift George and veteran actor Wayne DeHart talk about the heart-warming and enduring friendship that develops between their two characters in the A.D. Players' production of Driving Miss Daisy. |
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The Front Row - Texas Dance Improvisation Festival Dancer-choreographers Leslie Scates and Rosie Trump of Rice University's Dance Program preview the 2nd Annual Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, October 7 - 9! |
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The Front Row - Art League Houston Sculptor Joseph Havel, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's Glassell School of Art, shows off his latest creations in an exhibition organized in conjunction with his being named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League Houston. Havel's new work is a series of collages built around texts by American poet John Berryman, that were randomly altered by a swarm of six-legged critters who invaded the piece and devoured portions of it... |
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The Front Row - Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Today, the first of two program segments presented in conjunction with this week's series of activities and concerts celebrating the installation and dedication of the new 75-stop, Pasi Pipe Organ at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in downtown Houston. Kevin Riehle, Artistic Director of Cantare Houston, and Betsy Cook Weber, Director of the Concert Chorale at the Moores School of Music chat about the concert of works for voices and organ that they'll give - along with the Houston Masterworks Chorus tomorrow evening at the Co-Cathedral... |
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The Front Row - Stages Repertory Theatre Beloved veteran Houston actress, Sally Edmundson, stars as the wildly unconventional title character in Auntie Mame! We chat with Ms. Edmundson and Artistic Director Kenn McLaughlin about Stages Repertory Theatre's new production of the comedy classic. |
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The Front Row - Da Camera & Houston Early Music Renowned gambist, musicologist and music director Jordi Savall discusses the rarely-heard pieces that he spotlights on his program, The Route to the New World: Spain to Mexico, this Saturday at the Wortham Center! |
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Award-winning stage, film & TV actor John Lithgow chats about his one-man show, Stories By Heart, which he brings to Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House, this Saturday. |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf previews this weekend's blockbuster program of Schubert and Mendelssohn! |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Violin superstar Joshua Bell talks about performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, including his own cadenzas, with the Houston Symphony this weekend! |
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The Front Row - Poison Pen Reading Series Neuro-scientist and storyteller, David Eagleman (pictured) and acclaimed non-fiction writer, David MacLean, share some of their work with us, previewing their appearance on the Poison Pen Reading Series, tonight at the Poison Girl Bar... |
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The Front Row - Shepherd School of Music Shepherd School of Music faculty and guest artists perform small-ensemble pieces by Ravel and Schumann, previewing the recital of Romantic and 20th Century chamber music that they'll present this evening at Rice University... |
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The Front Row - Menil Collection Menil Collection art scholars-in-residence, Katrina Bartlett and Caitlin Haskell, introduce the topics that will be discussed by an international panel at a half-day symposium on French painter, Henri Rousseau. Was he a talented, skilled and influential pioneer who opened our eyes to a new way of looking at art and paved the way for at least four of the 20th Century's major art movements or a pleasant but untutored hack who created pretty but essentially meaningless pictures for the enjoyment of the masses? |
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Members of Universes - a Bronx-based ensemble of writers, musicians and performers - preview Ameriville, their fusion of theater, jazz, poetry, hip-hop and politics that, this weekend at DiverseWorks, explores the dynamics of post-Katrina contemporary urban life in the U.S.A.... |
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The Front Row - Horsehead Theatre Artistic Director Kevin Holden and actors Santry Rush and Phillip Hays discuss Horse Head Theatre's production of Among the Thugs... |
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We hear about the Phoenix Inc. staging of two contrasting productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, each from the point-of-view of a different director. Ilich Guardiola staged the "traditional" version of the romantic tragedy, and he and a couple of his cast members chat about their take on the legendary tale of the "star-cross'd lovers"... |
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The Front Row - Houston Ballet We speak with dance mistresses, Elyse Borne and Maria Calegari, who have re-created the choreography of George Balanchine's evening-length masterpiece, Jewels, for Houston Ballet. The work, divided into three sections - Emeralds, Rubies and Diamonds - is currently on stage at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row - Masquerade Theatre Lead members of the cast of the Masquerade Theatre production of the musical Chess gather in KUHF's Geary Performance Studio for a preview of the show's original score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus - the song-writing members of ABBA. Their show was inspired by the Cold-War-Era "Match of the Century" between American chess champion, Bobby Fischer, and the Russian grand master, Boris Spassky and the intense, politically-charged chess rivalry that raged between the two countries for some years afterwards... |
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The Front Row - Moores School of Music Violinist Frank Huang is not only the new concert-master of the Houston Symphony, he's also the newest member of the faculty of the University of Houston's Moores School of Music. He gives his first faculty recital this evening in the Moores Opera House, and today, he and pianist, Timothy Hester, play a movement from the Violin Sonata by Richard Strauss, previewing Huang's Houston recital debut... |
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The Front Row - Moores School of Music Young artists from the AURA Contemporary Ensemble at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music play Movements from another Trio by another French composer Philippe Hersant and Fringe, a World Premiere work by Moores School doctoral student, Jack Benson. AURA presents its first concert of the season tonight in Moores Opera House... |
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The Front Row - St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society Houston Symphony members, Adam Dinitz, Thomas LeGrand, and Jeff Robinson (pictured) play a wind trio by French composer, Georges Auric previewing the first-ever all-woodwind Saint Cecilia Chamber-Music recital which takes place tomorrow evening at Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church... |
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We conclude our five-part run-up to tomorrow's 14th annual Houston Museum District Day with a visit to the Rice University Gallery where we'll have our perceptions altered and expanded by Yale University artist Sarah Oppenheimer's new site-specific installation, D-17. It utilizes both the transparency and the reflective properties of glass to manipulate the ambient light that spills into the exhibition space... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf talks about conductor Lorin Maazel's concert-length orchestral synthesis of themes from Wagner's monumental cycle of music-dramas, the Ring of the Niebelung. That piece forms the bulk of the content of this weekend's Houston Symphony Classical Series concerts at Jones Hall... |
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Singers from Opera Vista perform vocal miniatures by George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem previewing the outdoor concert, Simply American Songs and Gifts, which they'll present tomorrow night in the Garden at Bayou Bend as part of this weekend's festivities celebrating the renovation of several of the rooms in Miss Ima Hogg's former home and the opening of its new Visitors' Center... |
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The Front Row - Casa de Argentina Pianist Rene Casarsa, singer Andrea Berri and violinist Pablo Donatti, play classical and modern examples of Argentina's sensuous national dance previewing this year's Tango Time concert, which takes place Saturday evening at the University of Saint Thomas... |
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This evening at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the New-Music group, Musiqa, inaugurates its 2010-2011 season with the first of this year's Loft Concerts, titled Music with Camera... |
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The Front Row - Menil Collection Our series of gallery interviews leading up to Saturday's Houston Museum District Day Open House continues, as we explore the exhibition of Objects of Devotion currently on display at the Menil Collection... |
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The Front Row - Ars Lyrica Houston Matthew Dirst, Artistic Director of the early-music group, Ars Lyrica Houston, previews the ensemble's Friday evening regional premiere performance of La Dirindina, a racy love story, and the only surviving operatic work by Domenico Scarlatti, the 18th Century's world-champion composer of harpsichord sonatas... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston In anticipation of this Saturday's 14th annual Houston Museum District Day, we check out one of the major offerings at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Curator Helga Aurisch introduces us to The German Impressionists: Liebermann, Corinth and Slevogt, an exhibition of paintings rarely shown in the United States by three leading artists who helped establish French Impressionism in Berlin... |
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The Front Row - Opera in the Heights Singers from Opera in the Heights perform live for us! Cast members Elizabeth Andrews Roberts and John Rodger perform arias and duets from Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, looking at the company's next production, which opens tomorrow night at Lambert Hall in The Heights... |
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The Front Row - Dance Source Houston We get ready for the 16th annual Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance, coming up Friday and Saturday at Miller Outdoor Theatre! Dance Source Houston Executive Director, Christina Giannelli gives us a preview, and choreographers, Leslie Scates, Catalina Molnari and Paola Georgudis talk about their pieces, which range from intimate duets to dance with spoken text... |
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The Front Row - Moores School of Music Pianist Tali Morgulis sits down at the KUHF Steinway for some live music. Caution! The performance you are about to enjoy might be extremely hot! is both a bit of cheeky advice and the title of Professor Morgulis' South-American-flavored Faculty Recital which she'll present Sunday at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music... |
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The Front Row - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston In the second of our pre-Museum District Day gallery interviews, curator Valerie Cassel Oliver takes us on a tour of the current Perspectives exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, which showcases the abstract films of Los Angeles artist, Jennifer West. She applies a painter's eye to her pieces created on celluloid... |
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The Front Row - Houston Chamber Choir Houston Chamber Choir founder and Artistic Director, Robert Simpson, chats about the ensemble's season-opening concert, A Renaissance Feast, taking place this evening at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, downtown... |
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The Front Row - Lawndale Art Center We initiate our series of interviews leading up to Saturday's 14th annual Houston Museum District Day, by venturing inside Math of the After-Wrath, the gigantic, deteriorating head that's been fashioned out of trash by the Austin art collective, Boozefox, and is on display in the ground-floor gallery at the Lawndale Art Center... |
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The Front Row - Grace Song Inc. Mezzo-soprano, Julia Fox, and pianist, Keith Weber, perform songs by Aaron Copland and Claudio Monteverdi previewing Blessing, the first of this season's Grace Song concerts set for next Sunday afternoon at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church... |
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The Front Row - Imprint/Brown Reading Series We chat with best-selling author Amy Tan who will talk about and read from her most-recent novel, Saving Fish from Drowning and her memoir, The Opposite of Fate on the opening program of this year's Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, presented by Inprint, tonight at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row - Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Festival And we get ready for the 13th annual Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Festival by welcoming two of the Festival's "A-list" guest artists. Former Houstonian, trumpet-player, Carol Morgan and The Big Apple's hottest young saxophonist, Sharel Cassity. They play tracks from their latest albums, providing us with just a hint of the kinds of sizzling sounds and rhythms they'll be laying down tonight and tomorrow afternoon on the Kemah Boardwalk... |
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The Front Row - Ebony Opera Guild Singers from Houston's Ebony Opera perform oratorio and opera excerpts by Puccini, Saint-Saens and late 19th Century Anglo-African composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as they offer for our examination some of the musical jewels that will be part of this year's Opera Gems Concert, Church Roots and Operatic Wings, which takes place Sunday afternoon at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall... |
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The Front Row - Rice University Flutist Leone Buyse, clarinetist Michael Webster and pianist Robert Moeling, The Webster Trio perform for us! They treat us to selections from the faculty recital they'll give Saturday night at the Shepherd School... |
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The Front Row - Brazos Bookstore Saigon-born, New-York-City-based writer, Monique Truong, talks about her new novel, Bitter in the Mouth. The book centers around a young woman's childhood in the American South, her synesthetic condition of being able to taste words and her search for answers to her mysterious past. Ms. Truong reads from Bitter in the Mouth this evening at the Brazos Bookstore... |
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The Front Row - Houston Friends of Chamber Music Violinist Martin Beaver of the Tokyo String Quartet chats about the group's program of pieces by Haydn, Barber and Schubert that opens the Houston Friends of Chamber Music's 50th Anniversary Season tonight at Rice University's Stude Concert Hall... |
