KUHF’s Bob Stevenson speaks with Houston-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist, Jason Villegas, about the soft sculptures, videos and self-portraits currently on view in his Perspectives exhibition, Invasive Species, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Listen Download Extended Interview
KUHF’s Chris Johnson speaks by phone with fiddler, violinist, composer and country-and-classical-music fusion pioneer, Mark O’Connor, about the new recording of Mister O’Connor’s String Quartets Numbers Two and Three, “Bluegrass” and “Old-Time,” respectively … featuring himself … violinist Ida Kavafian … violist, Paul Neubauer … and cellist Matt Haimovitz. The disc is available on Mister O’Connor’s own label, OMAC Records. Listen Download
Poet Rich Levy is Executive Director of Inprint, Incorporated, the organization that presents the nation’s most important writers on its Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. He chats with St. John Flynn about the upcoming season of readings.The first program is two weeks from tonight at the Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall and features PEN-Faulkner-Award-winner, Joseph O’Neill, sharing excerpts from his latest novel, Netherland and Pulitzer-Prize-winner, Marilynne Robinson, reading from her 2008 novel, Home. Inprint offers season subscriptions for its Brown Reading series. You can call them at 713-524-2026. Listen Download