|
The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Acclaimed Houston writer, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, tells us about "the pulse of India" which animates her soul and her novels. Professor Divakaruni reads selected passages from her books on this month's Artful Thursday event, India, My Inspiration, tomorrow night at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston... |
|
The Front Row - Aurora Picture Show We meet film, video and digital-media artist, Luke Savisky, whose latest piece, E/X, will serve as the grand finale of this weekend's 7th annual Media Archeology Festival, presented by the Aurora Picture Show... |
|
The Front Row - Thunderclap Productions Script-writers, Aaron Alon and Eric James, two of the founders of the new theatrical troupe, Thunderclap Productions discuss their company's inaugural offering, The Great Storm, an evening of short plays commemorating the second anniversary of Hurricane Ike... |
|
The Front Row - Gremillion Fine Art Gallery And artist Nicola Parente shows us the possibilities of negative space in his latest collection of paintings, Edge of Awakening, newly on-view at the Gremillion Fine Art Gallery. |
|
The Front Row - NANO Fiction Reading Series Local writers, Casey Fleming and Sophie Rosenblumz, read a complete "flash" story and a portion of an essay, respectively, previewing their joint appearance on the Nano Fiction Reading Series tonight at Kaboom Books... |
|
The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf talks about the Houston Symphony's first classical-series concert of the new season! It's this weekend's all-Russian program with guest pianist Yefim Bronfman featured in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto... |
|
The Front Row - Main Street Theater We find out about Main Street Theatre's season-opener, The Doctor's Dilemma, by George Bernard Shaw. Mark Adams directs, and Joel Sandel (pictured) plays a physician who must decide which of two patients will receive the only existing dose of his newly-discovered cure for tuberculosis... |
|
The Front Row - Lawndale Art Center We look at two of the four exhibitions currently on view at the Lawndale Art Center: Tobiah Mundt's collection of fantastical and slightly scary creatures, made out of sculpted wool and fabric and Logan Sebastian Beck's series of photographs that document the bicycle trip the artist took from Houston to Hannibal, Missouri, as he followed, in reverse, the path along the Mississippi River traveled by Huckleberry Finn and Jim in Mark Twain's great American novel... |
|
The Front Row - Mercury Baroque Founder and Artistic Director Antoine Plante introduces us to the musical delights contained in one of the two Compact Discs his early-music group, Mercury Baroque, has released in the past year. We hear selections from the ensemble's new album that contains a half-dozen of the Opus Six Concerti Grossi by George Frideric Handel... |
|
The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston University of Oregon professor Deisuke MiyaoM gives us an introduction to Akira Kurosawa in the 21st Century, the lecture he'll give Sunday afternoon at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as the MFAH inaugurates its four-month-long, centennial tribute to the legendary Japanese film-maker... |
|
The Front Row - West Side Piano Recital Series Houston-based, international concert pianist, Zoya Shuhatovich, performs live for us! Ms. Shuhatovich is the spot-lighted artist for the season-opening concert of the West Side Piano Recital Series, Sunday afternoon on the Spring Branch Campus of Houston Community College Northwest... |
|
The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf previews the Houston Symphony's Opening Night program, A Vienna Soiree! The program of gems by Johann Strauss, Junior, and Mozart features the Bayou City debut of the Symphony's new concertmaster, Frank Huang (pictured), and takes place tomorrow night at Jones Hall, with a live broadcast on KUHF... |
|
The Front Row - Bayou City Concert Musicals Singers from Bayou City Concert Musicals perform tunes from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the classic but rarely-performed musical about two gold-digging New York show girls who are searching for rich husbands on a vacation trip to Paris in the 1920's... |
|
The Front Row - Houston Fringe Festival We preview some of the fast-paced, cutting-edge and frequently-outrageous forms of performance art to be presented during the final Anything Goes! weekend of FrenetiCore's 2010 Houston Fringe Festival... |
|
The Front Row - Worldwide Stage We hear about a new bilingual musical, The Tale of Kieu, that’s based on a well-known epic poem from 18th Century Vietnamese literature. Book-writer and lyricist, Burton Wolfe, President of Worldwide Stage, and the company's Vice President, Lawrence Wong, chat about the production, which blends a contemporary, Broadway-stage sensibility with traditional Vietnamese instruments and costumes to tell a touching story about a young woman’s trials and tribulations... |
|
The Front Row - Opera in the Heights We have a live performance by soloists from Opera in the Heights, who treat us to romantic songs from Spanish and Latin-American operettas, previewing their concert, Passion: Zarzuelas and Boleros, to be presented this weekend in partnership with Talento Bilingue de Houston... |
|
The Front Row - Grand 1894 Opera House We ring up Irish tenor, Ronan Tynan, at home on the Emerald Isle, to chat about his music and career, in anticipation of his return visit to Galveston’s Grand 1894 Opera House for a concert on Friday night... |
|
The Front Row - Killdozer Productions We imagine what might have happened if two of the English-speaking world's most beloved storytellers - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, and Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland - went down the rabbit hole together in order to solve a great mystery. That's the question Houston playwright Clay Ratcliff explores in his new drama, The Adventures of Arthur Ignatius in Wonderland... |
|
The Front Row - Ars Lyrica Houston Artistic Director, Matthew Dirst, samples some of the delights contained in the C.D.'s of Baroque music by Johann Hasse and the Couperin Cousins that he and his period-instruments ensemble, Ars Lyrica Houston, have released in the past few months... |
|
Actor Andrew Weems talks about playing Carmichael, the gun-toting, one-handed central character in Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's outrageous comedy, A Behanding in Spokane, which has opened the Alley Theatre's new season... |
|
The Front Row - Houston Ballet Dance mistress Roslyn Anderson describes the process of re-creating choreographer Jiri Kylian's thoughtful and emotionally-charged abstract piece, Forgotten Land, for Houston Ballet's Fall Mixed Repertory program, Body, Soul and Gershwin, which launches the Ballet's season, Thursday night at the Wortham Center... |
|
The Front Row - Special Edition Houston-based historian, author, folksinger and songwriter, Bobby Bridger, performs excerpts from A Ballad of the West, his epic, three-part history of the development of the American frontier. The story is told, in verse and song, in the voices of three of the figures who were themselves major players in the saga: mountain man, Jim Bridger; Bison-hunter-turned-showman and myth-maker, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Lakota/Sioux Indian shaman and spiritual leader, Black Elk... |
|
The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston We stop by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, where curator, Cindi Strauss, shows us the furniture, decorative and household objects -- created by architects -- that are on display in the exhibition, Form Follows Function: Celebrating Ten Years of the American Institute of Architects Design Collection... |
|
The Front Row - Camerata Ventapane Houston We preview Echoes of a Nation, a festival of Mexican music. This two-day event is part of the Houston Celebrates Mexico 2010 series, and takes place tonight and tomorrow evening at the University of Saint Thomas, where it's being presented by Camerata Ventapane Houston... |
|
The Front Row - Houston Fringe Festival Visual arts curator, Robert Boyd, humorist and film-maker, Margo Toombs and gay and prison-rights activist, writer, performer and broadcaster, Ray Hill talk about the pieces they're contributing to the eclectic slate of experimental, cutting-edge visual and performance art planned for the third weekend of this year's Houston Fringe Festival, presented by FrenetiCore... |
|
Artistic Director Anthony Brandt previews Musiqa's 2010-2011 season of new, contemporary concert music which will include five world premieres and collaborations with dancers, choreographers, film-makers, playwrights and actors... |
|
The Front Row - Houston Symphony Pops The Houston Symphony's Principal Pops Conductor, Michael Krajewski, chats with us about Broadway Rocks!, a concert of show-stopping numbers from recent hit musicals like Wicked, Jersey Boys and Rent. It opens the Symphony Pops season, tonight at the Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands and this weekend at Jones Hall... |
|
The Front Row - NobleMotion Dance We introduce you to NobleMotion Dance and its signature style of integrating theater and technology with choreography. Co-Artistic Director, Andy Noble, and dancers Jesus Acosta, David Deveau and Brittany Thetford chat about On Your Mark, Get Set, a program of new works they'll perform this weekend at the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex... |
|
The Front Row - Main Street Theater Main Street Theater Artistic Director, Rebecca Greene Udden, previews both the company's "Main-Stage" season and its first-ever "New/Now" Series of world and regional premieres of hot-off-the-press scripts by emerging playwrights... |
|
The Front Row - Mercury Baroque Antoine Plante and musicians from his early-music ensemble, Mercury Baroque, set up their harpsichord and other period instruments in the Geary Performance Studio to treat us to portions of one of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, previewing concerts that Mercury Baroque will present in The Woodlands, Clear Lake and Houston on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening... |
|
The Front Row - Murder by the Book Best-selling crime-fiction writer, Sara Paretsky, talks about Body Work, her latest "V.I. Warshawski" novel. Ms. Paretsky signs copies of the new thriller tomorrow evening at Murder By The Book... |
|
The Front Row - Houston Chamber Choir Houston Chamber Choir's founder and Artistic Director, Robert Simpson, talks about some of the highlights of his ensemble's upcoming season, which opens with A Renaissance Feast at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart on September 21st... |
|
The Front Row - Moores School of Music Houston Symphony oboist, Anne Leek, talks about recruiting several of her colleagues from the Orchestra, not to mention a choreographer and some dancers, and essentially turning her faculty recital at U.H. into a Greenbriar Consortium concert. And, we hear earlier Greenbriar performances of a couple of the pieces included on Ms. Leek's recital, which is set for tomorrow evening in the Moores Opera House... |
|
The Front Row - Blaffer Art Museum We consider the innumerable everyday transactions by which we fulfill our destinies as members of a consumer society, in Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri's new exhibition, Nobody Needs To Know the Price of Your Saab. It opened Friday at the University of Houston's Blaffer Art Museum... |
|
The Front Row - Grand 1894 Opera House Maureen Patton, Executive Director of Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House, tells us about the varied line-up of world-class artists and attractions that will perform in her hall this coming season... |
|
The Front Row - Foundation for Modern Music Houston's Foundation for Modern Music presents a two-day event, Life after Katrina, marking the 5th anniversary of the destruction of New Orleans by hurricane and flood. Composer Ted Hearne and film-maker Bill Morrison share with us excerpts from their multi-media piece, Katrina Ballads, which will have its second performance ever, tomorrow evening at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall... |
|
The Front Row - Moores School of Music Houston Symphony violist, Rita Porfiris, and her colleague from the faculty of the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, violinist Anton Miller, perform a brand-new piece for us, previewing the Guest Artist Recital they're presenting Sunday afternoon at the University of Houston's Moores Opera House... |
|
The Front Row - Houston Fringe Festival Director Rebecca French, Technical Director Robert Thoth and playwright Fernando Dovalina describe the eclectic assemblage of cutting-edge theatre, film, music, dance, and visual and performance art that will be on display during the second weekend of the Houston Fringe Festival, presented by FrenetiCore... |
|
The Front Row - Da Camera of Houston At this Sunday's 17th Annual Theater District Open House, chamber music - classical, contemporary, and jazz - will be represented by Da Camera of Houston! The society's Artistic Director, Sarah Rothenberg, talks about Da Camera's upcoming season, New Worlds in Music and Art, in which the visual and audible arts cross paths in unique programs, ranging from early repertoire to new works, hot-off-the-manuscript paper... |
|
Artistic Director Jonathan Harvey and actress Elissa Levitt chat about The Fan Factory's production of August in August, a mini-festival of short stories, monologues and plays by August Strindberg, the father of modern Swedish literature, currently running at the Obsidian Art Space in The Heights... |
|
The Front Row - Murder by the Book Danish-born writer Anne Fortier introduces us to her first novel, Juliet, a tale with its roots in both history and literature in which a modern-day descendant of the real-life Juliet who served as the model for Shakespeare's star-crossed lover travels to Italy in search of a long-lost family treasure and her true identity... |
|
The Front Row - Rice University Violist Debra Brown of Two-Star Symphony, and lighting designer, Matthew Schlief, talk about Synesthesia Two: Electric Bugaloo, a multi-media fusion of color and sound to be presented this weekend at Rice University's Hamman Hall... |
|
The Front Row - Houston Grand Opera With just a few more days to go until Sunday's 17th annual Houston Theater District Open House dramaturg olin Ure tells us about the seven spectacular operas that will be performed during HGO's upcoming season... |
|
Artistic Director Debra Schultz and playwrights Fernando Dovalina (pictured) and Nicholas Garelick, chat about this year's Ten By Ten festival of short plays by local dramatists... |
|
The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts Society for the Performing Arts is one of the nine cultural institutions that will host this Sunday's 17th annual Houston Theatre District Open House. Today, SPA's Executive Director, June Christensen, talks about the organization's upcoming season of music, dance and theater... |
|
The Front Row - Hope Stone Dance Hope Stone Dance Company Artistic Director, Jane Weiner, together with, Spencer Gavin Hering and Andrea Shelley now the directors of their own Santa Barbara, California-based contemporary dance troupe, iMEE - Infinite Movement Ever Evolving talk about what's in store during the upcoming final weekend of Hope Stone's Lemonade Stand festival of innovative dance at the Barnevelder Theater... |
|
The Front Row - Theatre District Open House In the next installment in our ten-part run-up to this year's Houston Theater District Open House, Managing Director C. C. Conner shares with us some of the highlights of Houston Ballet's 2010-2011 season... |
|
The Front Row - Moores School of Music We celebrate the start of the new academic year and concert season at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music with a studio performance by faculty artists, Cynthia Clayton, soprano; Hector Vásquez, baritone and Katherine Ciscon, piano. They preview their recital, Hymns, Hermits and Humidity: An Evening of 20th-Century American Art Song... |
|
We have a performance by drummer Sebastian Whittaker and his Quintet! They treat us to some tasty straight-ahead jazz, in anticipation of their show tomorrow night at CĂ©zanne... |
|
The Front Row - Theatre District Open House Our countdown to the 17th Annual Houston Theater District Open House continues, as Choreographer and Artistic Director, Dominic Walsh, joins us to talk about the new season of contemporary ballet he's planned for his Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre and early-music specialist, Matthew Dirst, previews the concerts to be presented over the course of the next nine months by his ensemble, Ars Lyrica Houston. Both of those groups are partners in the Uniquely Houston Series at the Hobby Center... |
