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The Front Row, Tuesday, 04/21/2009 Producer and actress Christina Mauro talks about her film, Stellina Blue, in which she plays the title character. The movie has its Texas Premiere tonight at the AMC 30 Theatre on Dunvale; it’s one of the 56 new feature-length independent films being screened at this year’s WorldFest - the Houston International Film Festival... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 04/21/2009 Today, we speak with Phillip Setzer, violinist with the internationally-acclaimed Emerson String Quartet. Mr. Setzer and his colleagues play pieces by Mozart, Webern, Prokofiev and Dvorák in the season’s concluding Houston Friends of Music chamber recital, tomorrow evening in Rice University’s Stude Concert Hall... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 04/17/2009 Flutist Christina Jennings is joined in the Geary Performance Studio by composer Cater Pann to discuss Pann's Flute Concerto which was comissioned and will recieve it's world premiere performance by the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra this weekend... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 04/16/2009 Houston Grand Opera Studio alumnus, baritone Scott Hendricks, and Met Opera National Council Auditions winner, tenor Eric Cutler, give us a preview of H-G-O’s new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto plus some perspective on their respective roles as the opera’s title-character and his boss, the licentious Duke of Mantua... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 04/15/2009 One of Australia’s leading dancer-choreographers, Ros Warby, talks with us about her award-winning work, Monumental, a solo piece that incorporates two of ballet’s most iconic figures: the swan and the soldier. Warby performs Monumental Friday evening at the Wortham Center under the sponsorship of Society for the Performing Arts... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 04/14/2009 Reed flutist Tolga Unaldi plays live for us, previewing the concert of Modern Turkish Sufi Music that he presents tomorrow evening at the Rothko Chapel. Then we meet Danish Maestro Thomas Dausgaard, the guest conductor of this weekend’s Houston Symphony concerts... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 04/13/2009 Cellist Lynn Harrell stops by the Geary Performance Studio and brings some of his distinguished colleagues from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music for a performance of a portion of the Sextet by Brahms that is included on his final farewell recital tomorrow night... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 04/10/2009 Today, we feature live performance by Relâche, an internationally-renowned contemporary-music ensemble from Philadelphia. Relâche performs The Misbehaving Octet by Mexican composer, Arturo Márquez, previewing their Syzygy, New Music at Rice concert tonight at the Shepherd School of Music... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 04/09/2009 Two of the internationally-acclaimed dance masters and choreographers who are in town for the city’s 14th annual Dance Salad Festival. We get a back-stage look at this year’s gathering of the world’s finest ballet and contemporary dance companies, to be featured in uniquely-curated programs, tonight through Saturday at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 04/08/2009 Today, we’re off on a journey Somewhere Over the Rainbow, as two members of the cast of the new national touring production of The Wizard of Oz -- Cassie Okenka, who plays Dorothy, and Noah Aberlin, The Scarecrow -- sing two of the show’s most popular songs, live... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 04/07/2009 The Chiara String Quartet plays chamber music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in the Geary Performance Studio in anticipation of their concert for Da Camera Houston and, artists associated with the Piping Rock Singers assemble in Studio 3-C for a preview of their concert for Holy Week, Portraits of Passion... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 04/06/2009 Best-selling Chilean author, Isabel Allende, chats with KUHF's Dean Dalton about her latest book, The Sum of Our Days, which reveals intimate details about her marriage, her loves and infidelities, the dilemmas, the disasters and the joys of her private life... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 04/03/2009 Composer Ricky Ian Gordon talks about his opera The Grapes of Wrath. He is in town for rehearsal and the opening-night performance of the work which is given by the Moores Opera Center and Directed by Buck Ross... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 04/02/2009 Pianist, composer and American jazz icon, Ramsey Lewis, chats with us about the concert he and his Trio play Saturday night at The Centrum in Spring. We also hear from violist Lawrence Wheeler as he previews the recital of chamber pieces by Mozart and Beethoven he’s going to present tonight at Houston Baptist University in partnership with violinist Judy Kang and cellist Lynn Harrell... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 04/01/2009 Artistic Director Albert LeDoux and Michael Marissen, Professor of Music at Swarthmore College, share insights on George Frideric Handel’s neglected Brockes Passion, which Houston’s Bach Society Choir and Orchestra perform on Palm Sunday and Good Friday at Christ the King Lutheran Church, in this year when we’re also observing the Two-Hundred-Fiftieth Anniversary of Handel's death... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 03/30/2009 Author Charles Simic, joins us live to read selections from his latest collection, That Little Something, which he’ll also discuss this evening at the Jewish Community Center on the Inprint/Brown Reading Series. We also hear from authors Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Andrei Codrescu on this all literary edition of the program... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 03/27/2009 California-based pianist and American-music specialist, Sarah Cahill, joins us live to talk about the new works that she’s commissioned for A Sweeter Music, the Music for Peace concert she performs this evening at the Rothko Chapel... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 3/26/2009 General Manager Steve Brosvik reveals what kind of musical festivities we can expect at the Houston Symphony's Bach Versus Vivaldi Experience! Beloved mystery writer, Walter Mosley, chats about his new novel, The Long Fall. And we preview the Houston Chamber Choir's next concert. |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 03/25/2009 Internationally-acclaimed baritone, Richard Paul Fink - who also happens to be a "hometown guy" based here in Houston - chats about his role as "Alberich" in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Richard Wagner’s four-part Ring of the Nibelung, which opens tonight and which can be heard on KUHF's Live from the Met broadcasts, beginning this Saturday... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 03/24/2009 Austin-based classical guitarist, Alejandro Montiel, samples some of the repertoire he’ll perform in recital Sunday afternoon at Houston Community College Northwest from the Geary Performance Studio. We also hear from violist James Dunham and some of his students from the Shepherd School of Music in anticipation of tonight's concert presented by the St. Cecilia Friends of Music... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 03/23/2009 In honor of its own fiftieth anniversary, the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater has revived Go in Grace; a piece that celebrates family and community and which is accompanied by music performed live, on-stage, by the African-American traditional vocal ensemble, Sweet Honey in the Rock. We speak with choreographer Hope Boykin and Ysaye Barnwell, a member of Sweet Honey in the Rock... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 03/20/2009 We take a trip to the Wade Wilson Art Gallery to marvel at a series of haunting paintings entitled, Priscilla, by Israeli artist, Yigal Ozeri who is known for his incredibly realistic still-lifes and portraits... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 03/19/2009 Mezzo-soprano Sonja Bruzauskas is joined in the Geary Performance Studio by flutist Daniel Alexander and pianist Matthew Dirst for a preview of the next Salon program offered by Divas World Productions. It's Friday evening at Rothko Chapel... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 3/18/2009 We meet rising, young maestro, Kirill Karabits, who's in town to conduct the Houston Symphony. And two of the Symphony's principal players also perform for us! Performance artist Michelle Ellsworth chats about The Objectification of Things. And singers from Divergence Vocal Theatre preview The 10th Muse. |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 03/17/2009 Artistic Director Antoine Plante gives us a preview of the next concert from Mercury Baroque. Baroque Meditation is program of sacred vocal works by Dieterich Buxtehude and his contemporaries, for which the Mercury Baroque instrumentalists will partner with the Canadian vocal group, Les Voix Baroques... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 3/12/2009 Flutist Colleen Matheu Johnson & friends perform music by Mozart and contemporary Seattle-based composer, Ken Benshoof. Grammy Award-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman talks about the grandeur of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2. And we hear hilarious songs from Nursery School Musical, performed by Theater LaB Houston! |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 03/10/2009 Alley Theatre actors James Black and Elizabeth Heflin chat about their eccentric, hilarious and unforgettable characters in the company’s current production of the Kaufman and Hart comedy classic, The Man Who Came to Dinner. |
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The Front Row, Monday, 03/09/2009 Best-selling author, Richard Price ... who is also one of the head writers for the HBO television series, The Wire ... talks about his latest novel, Lush Life, from which he’ll share excerpts tonight at the Alley Theatre in this month’s program in the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, hosted by Inprint, Incorporated... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 03/06/2009 From the Anheuser-Busch Stage at Discovery Green in Downtown Houstonm, we have three live performances on this special edition of our show including Ray Benson and his band, Asleep at the Wheel, who have stopped by on their way to Galveston’s Grand 1894 Opera House, where, this weekend, they’re going to present encore performances of A Ride with Bob, their tribute to Western Swing pioneer, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. We also hear from Austin's Invincable Czars as the prepare to play the score on tonight's Silent Film presentation presented by KUHF... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 03/16/2009 James Knapp, Artistic Director of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Houston and the Bayou City Women’s Chorus, tells us about the exciting new piece, Song and Wisdom from Old Turtle, that his groups, combined together as the Bayou City Chorale, will debut tomorrow night at Jones Hall in a concert they’re presenting in collaboration with the Doctors’ Orchestra of Houston... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 03/05/2009 Dancer, choreographer and performance artist Joe Goode tells us about the program his company presents tomorrow night at the Wortham Center under the auspices of Society for the Performing Arts: the central character of the major piece is a puppet... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 03/04/2009 New York playwright, Joseph Lauinger tells about his new play, The Pie Dialogues, which is receiving its World Premiere production at Houston's Main Street Theater. In his comedy-drama, which covers a time-span of twenty-five years, a couple engages in a series of conversations, focusing on the ups and downs of their relationship with their daughter, Pie... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 03/10/2009 Today, composer John Williams speaks with us -- not about his film scores — but about two of his concert pieces, his Celebration Fanfare and his Horn Concerto… which soloist William VerMeulen, guest conductor Peter Oundjian and the Houston Symphony perform this weekend on Classical Series concerts at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row, tuesday, 3/03/09 Members of the famed Battlefield Band gather in KUHF's Performance Studio for a preview of what patrons at McGonigel's Mucky Duck can expect tonight. KUHF's Bob Stevenson hosts today's session... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 3/02/09 Flutist James Galway stops by the program today. He chats with KUHF's Catherine Lu about the repertoire he'll play on his upcoming recital in Houston. He'll be joined in the Bayou City by pianist Christopher O'Riley and his wife, Lady Jeanne Galway... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 2/27/09 Bayou City sax-man, Woody Witt, brings to Houston and to KUHF's Studio 3-C another of the outstanding jazz artists from around the country whose virtuosity he wants to introduce to local audiences. Chicago guitarist Paul Kogut joins Witt, Houston bassist Bill Miller, and drummer Daleton Lee for a live set on today's program... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 2/26/2009 Mozart specialist, Christian Zacharias, talks with KUHF's Dean Dalton about this weekend's Houston Symphony concerts, on which he appears as both conductor and soloist - simultaneously! - in Mozart's Piano Concerto No.18... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 2/25/2009 Actor-singer Steve Wilson talks about his role as Caractacus Potts in the national-touring production of the whimsical stage musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, being presented at Houston's Hobby Center for the Performing Arts by Boradway Across America... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 2/24/2009 Artistic Director Stanton Welch and Music Director Ermanno Florio talk with KUHF's Catherine Lu about the world premiere that Houston Ballet will premiere this weekend at the Wortham Center: Marie, Welch's new three-act, evening length ballet inspired by the life of the lgendary French Queen, Marie Antoinette... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 2/23/2009 Comedian and comedy writer Larry Wilmore, the "Senior Black Correspondent" on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, offers his perspective on the country's election of its first African-American President...how to pick an "Angry Black Church" thats just right for you...and other "Black Thouhts", as he tours the country on behalf of his new book, I'd Rather We Got Casinos. He chats with The Front Row's Bob Stevenson... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 02/20/2009 The four siblings of the MacAdam-Somer Family String Ensemble gather in KUHF's Performance Studio to preview their upcoming conerts of contemporary classical music... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 2/19/2009 Violinist Jessica Mathaes is a graduate of teh Shepherd School of Music and the Concertmistress of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. She stops by the program to share excerpts from her debut CD, Suites and Sweets, and chats with KUHF's Catherine Lu about the recital she gives at the University of Houston... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 2/18/2009 We meet America's "Rock Star" organist, Cameron Carpenter today. He talks with KUHF's St. John Flynn about the recital he plays in Houston at chapelwood United Methodist Church... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 02/17/2009 Members of Houston's newest orchestra, Project Divisi, perform a selection from their inaugural concert, The Bold and the Belligerent, featuring works by Tchaikovsky and Britten, plus a newly-commissioned arrangment of Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue. They are hosted in Studio 3-C by KUHF's Chris Johnson... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 02/16/2009 Three cast members and Director Gregory Boyd discuss the Alley Theatre production of Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl's re-telling of the ancient greek legend from the point of view of the young bride whose mis-step on her wedding day plunges her into the surreal depths of the Underworld... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 02/12/2009 Vocalist Maggie Nicols is a pioneer in the world of Free Improvisation. She stops into the KUHF Studios to share her artistiry and chat with KUHF's Chris Johnson. She is presented in Houston by Nameless Sound and will collaborate with guitarists Fred Firth and Susan Alcorn in a cocnert on Sunday evening... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 02/11/2009 Pilobolus Dance Theatre is hailed world-wide for the it's startling mix of humor, athleticism and inventiveness. On the current edition of The Front Row KUHF's Catherine Lu chats with Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director Robby Barnett about the troupe's upcoming Houston appearance... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 02/10/2009 Today we chat with Sydney Berger, former head of the University of Houston's School of Theatre and Dance; his final directorial project at UH before he retires at the end of the semester is the regional premiere of Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 02/09/2009 Dominic Walsh stops into the KUHF Studios with Principal Dancer Domenico Luciano to talk with KUHF's Chris Johnson about the next program from Dominic Walsh Dance Theater. It's a Masterful Mixed Repertoire... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 02/06/2009 The Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet performs live for us on the current edition of the program. The internationally-acclaimed ensemble from Sao Paulo, Brazil is back in town by popular demand for a Guitar Houston recital tomorrow night at Emerson Unitarian-Universalist Church... |
