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The Front Row - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston We chat with two of the artists whose pieces currently on display at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston expand the traditional boundaries of art and craft by incorporating performance elements into their videos, photographs, installations, sculptural objects and craft-works... |
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We celebrate the 80th birthday one of India's most revered musicians, Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj, who chats with us about his upcoming Houston concert! |
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The Front Row - Classical Minds Guitar Institute Les Freres Meduses - The Jellyfish Brothers [pictured] and guitarist Mary Akerman treat us to a live studio performance. |
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The Front Row - Texas Music Festival Violist Rita Porfiris performs for us, and conductor Horst Foerster talks about their concert of Bartok, Wagner and Berlioz with the Texas Music Festival Orchestra. |
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The Front Row - International Festival-Institute at Round Top Conductor Christoph Campestrini discusses his romantic program of Brahms and Tchaikovsky, which he conducts with the Texas Festival Orchestra at Round Top this weekend! |
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The Front Row - Classical Minds Guitar Institute The Kithara Duo [pictured] and guitarist Patrick Lui perform for us. The three musicians are all faculty artists at the 6th Annual Classical Minds Guitar Institute. |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Grammy Award-nominated violin prodigy, Caroline Goulding, plays excerpts from Max Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy," which she'll be performing with the Houston Symphony! Maestro Robert Franz joins her in the studio to chat about that concert. |
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Acclaimed thriller writer and renowned cartoonist, Peter Steiner, talks about his latest spy novel, "The Terrorist." |
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The Front Row - Main Street Theater Actors from Main Street Theater take us back to the delightfully twisted world of 1960s musical satirist, Tom Lehrer, with a performance of songs from "Tom Foolery." |
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The Front Row - Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre We hear about Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre's new production, "Ant Sandwich," written by Artistic Director Joel Orr with puppets by Katie Jackson. |
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The Front Row - Texas Music Festival Faculty artists from the 2010 Immanuel & Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival perform music from their concert, "Voices from the Twilight of Old Vienna," curated by musicologist and violinist Sean Wang [pictured]. |
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The Front Row - Stages Repertory Theatre The three-member cast of Stages Repertory Theatre's current production of "The Complete History of America (abridged)" chat with us about the show's slapstick, satire and silliness. |
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The Front Row - Classical Minds Guitar Institute Guitarists Anthony Glise [pictured] and Valerie Hartzell perform in the studio, previewing the first concerts at the 2010 Classical Minds Guitar Institute Institute. |
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The Front Row - Main Street Theatre & Menil Collection We preview Main Street Theater's production of "One Was Nude and One Wore Tails" by Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo. The company presents the play at The Menil Collection, in conjuction with the current exhbition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. |
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The Front Row - Houston Young Artist's Concert Musically-gifted youngsters from the Houston Young Artist's Concert perform live for us. Spokesperson Emmeline Kramlich also joins them to talk about the group's upcoming summer concert at Miller Outdoor Theater. |
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The Front Row - The Alley Theatre "Boeing-Boeing" has taken off at The Alley Theatre! We hear about the company's new production of the French farce from Artistic Director, Gregory Boyd, and Senior Dramaturg, Mark Bly. |
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Austin singer-songwriter, Sara Hickman - who by the way was born & raised in Houston! - treats us to live, acoustic versions of songs from her new album, "Absence of Blame." |
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The Front Row - The Invincible Czars Austin's Invincible Czars play excerpts from the original score they've written for the 1927 silent film, "The Unknown," set in a circus and starring Joan Crawford & Lon Chaney! |
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The Front Row - Big Range Dance Festival We preview the second weekend of the 2010 Big Range Dance Festival by speaking with choreographers Alison Bory and Rosie Trump [pictured] about their featured work, "The Big Empty." |
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The Front Row - Restoration Chamber Players A quartet of cellists, including Evan Leslie [pictured] and Brinton Averil Smith, perform selections from the next concert on the Restoration Chamber Music Series. |
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The Front Row - Texas Music Festival Orchestra Conductor Anton Krager [pictured] and Festival Director Alan Austin chat about the 2010 Texas Music Festival Orchestra's first concert of the summer! |
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The Front Row - Annie Cohen-Solal Acclaimed French cultural ambassador & author, Annie Cohen-Solal, talks about her new book - a comprehensive portrait of Leo Castelli, America's most influential art dealer and gallery owner of the second half of the twentieth century. |
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The Front Row - Houston Ballet We preview Houston Ballet's season-finale production of the comedic masterpiece, "La fille mal gardee," or "The Wayward Daughter"! |
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The Front Row - An Enchanted Evening of Classical Magic & Music We meet Houston deceptionist Richard Hatch and his wife & collaborator, violinist Rosemary Kimura, who descibe their upcoming show at the Hilton Americas. |
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The Front Row - International Festival-Institute at Round Top Conductor Christoph Campestrini chats about his program that kicks off this summer's Orchestral Concert Series at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top. |
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The Front Row - Annie Cohel-Solal Acclaimed French cultral ambassador and author, Annie Cohen-Solal talks about her new book, a comprehensive portrait of Leo Castelli, America's most influential art dealer and gallery owner of the second half of the 20th Century. |
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Freneticore conducts "scientific research" on members of its audience! We preview its newest interactive dance-music-and-video theater piece, "MK Ultra." |
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The Front Row - TMF Jazz Project Houston-area jazz all-stars present the first Texas Music Festival concert of the year, and get together for a session in KUHF's Geary Performance Studio. |
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The Front Row - Texas Music Festival We introduce you to the history, process and dynamics of the Texas Music Festival. The 21st Annual TMF is underway at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music. |
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The Front Row - Jewish Community Center Houston Writer-actress-director Cheryl Kaplan previews her heart-warming & hilarious one-woman show, "My Mother's Medicine," which she presents this weekend at the Jewish Community Center. |
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The Front Row - Lawndale Art Center We look at works created over the past few months by artists Nick Meriwether, David Waddell & Dawn Black at the Lawndale Art Center. |
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The Front Row - Lorento Golofeev, violist Violist Lorento Golofeev of the Houston Ballet & Houston Grand Opera Orchestras and wife, pianist Zoia Golofeeva, perform pieces frm their native Moldavia. |
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The Front Row - Classical Minds Guitar Institute Houston guitarist Valerie Hartzell and classically-trained singer-songwriter Jennifer Grassman share solo guitar pieces and original songs, previewing the joint recital that they'll present tomorrow night at the University of Houston, benefitting this year's Classical Minds Guitar Institute, associated with the Texas Music Festival... |
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The Front Row - Restorations Chamber Players Cellist Evan Leslie, pianist Evelyn Chen and flutist Judy Dines of the Restoration Chamber Music Series treat us to selections from Adoration of the Earth, a concert of pieces evoking the beauty of nature... |
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The Front Row - 48 Hour Film Project Producer, Laura Schlecht, and film-maker Wayne Slaten of Fire Pig Productions, chat about The 48-Hour Film Project, the world’s biggest movie-making competition, which this year visits 90 cities world-wide, including Houston, and challenges teams to complete an entire film in a mere two days... |
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The Front Row - Apollo Chamber Players The Apollo Chamber Players perform live in KUHF's Ceary Performance Studio. They treat us to a movement from Dvorak’s Piano Quintet and an arrangement of a Greek Folk Melody, both pieces excerpted from their next concert, Apollo Travels the Globe... |
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The Front Row - Houston Metropolitan Dance Company Members of the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company steam up the windows of our studios, as we hear about Sizzling Summer Dance. Managing Director Marlana Walsh-Doyle and choreographer Jhon R. Stronks describe the evening of contemporary dance that they'll present tomorrow at Miller Outdoor Theatre... |
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The Front Row - River Oaks Bookstore Former Texas Poet Laureate Larry D. Thomas reads selections from The Skin of Light... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Curators, Barry Walker of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Jeremy Lewison, advisor to the Alice Neel estate, introduce us to the work of Ms. Neel, an indomitable twentieth-century portrait painter who captured the character of her times and the diversity of life in New York City over the course of her career... |
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Jazz keyboard master, Bobby Lyle, gets together in KUHF’s George Geary Studio with local favorites, saxophonist Woody Witt, guitarist Mike Wheeler and drummer Sebastian Whittaker for a live set, previewing this weekend’s performances at Cézanne... |
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The Front Row - Broadway Across America We chat with performer Cory English, who plays Igor the lovable but inept lab assistant, in the national tour of Mel Brooks musical-theater adaptation of his classic horror-film spoof, Young Frankenstein, now in the final week of its run at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Special Edition Today, we introduce you to an artist who is generating great excitement in Europe but who generally has not yet been discovered by American audiences. French counter-tenor, Philippe Jaroussky was just named Opera Singer of the Year in France for the second time and we spend the hour discussing his musical development and the repertoire that he specializes in... |
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The Front Row - Special Edition We spend our hour with a musical native son. Houston-born flutist Hubert Laws is one of the few musicians who are equally at home in the classical, jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues genres... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Pops The Houston Symphony’s Principal Pops Conductor, Michael Krajewski, talks about Cirque de la Symphonie, this weekend’s Jones Hall concerts that combine exhilarating classical favorites with the daring feats of live aerial artists, strongmen and a hand-balancer... |
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The Front Row - Chorus Angelorum Scottish organist Ruaraidh Sutherland and Musical Director Ed Franklin chat about two performances coming up this weekend at Our Lady of Walsingham Anglican Rite Catholic Church, a solo organ recital by Mister Sutherland, and A Choral Tribute to English composer, Herbert Howells, featuring Chorus Angelorum... |
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The Front Row - Restoration Chamber Players We welcome to KUHF's Geary Performance Studio the Houston Symphony's new concertmaster, Frank Huang. He is joined by colleagues from Restoration Chamber Music, a summer recital series that pairs innovative programs of pieces for small ensembles with historic Galveston buildings. Our guests play Beethoven and Chopin, previewing the "Living Room Concert" they'll give Saturday evening at the Moody Mansion... |
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We chat with former aspiring actress, stripper and call-girl, Jillian Lauren, whose new book, Some Girls, tells poetically and with psychological insight, the story of how she became a member of the harem of the Prince of the Southeast-Asian island nation of Brunei... |
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The Front Row - Lawndale Art Center We explore Dallas artist Ann Wood’s site-specific installation at the Lawndale Art Center. While aware and appreciative of nature in this post-Katrina and post-Ike world, the piece, Spoiler, also pays attention to the eat-or-be-eaten dynamic of the food chain and the dangers that can loom in seemingly innocent situations - those natural occurrences that can ruin your whole day... |
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Today, we find about the Alley's world-premiere production of Keeneth Lin's Intelligence-Slave The play tells the true story of Curt Herzstark, a WWII concentration camp prisoner who was kept alive by the Nazis because he had designed the world’s first hand-held four-function calculator... |
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The Front Row - Murder by the Book We visit with Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, John Camp, who, under his pen name of John Sandford, has just published Storm Prey, the 20th of his crime thrillers that details the latest adventures of the ruthless and irreverent special investigator, Lucas Davenport... |
