Posted on · Three years ago, Classical 91.7’s Dean Dalton, host of our Houston Symphony broadcasts, retired from his position as Director of Cultural Programming and now divides each year between homes in Houston and the Transylvania region of Romania. He spends each summer visiting music and cultural festivals throughout Europe and here reports on his recent trip to the Rheingau Music Festival...
Posted on · **A few spaces remain for the tour, but only if you act immediately via phone or email. Extended deadline is Friday, June 6. Contact Dean Dalton at 713.213.6447** Join Dean Dalton on Houston Public Radio's September Tour to the North Coast of Spain. Feast on the fine foods and wines of the region and enjoy art, architecture, history, and of course, great music.
Posted on · We have more opera for you! In the next installment in our series of interviews leading the way to the city’s thirteenth annual Theater District Open House, we’ll talk with Joy Partain, Associate Director of Public Relations for Houston Grand Opera, about what’s coming up on H-G-O’s 2006-2007 performance season, and about what delights the […]
Posted on · We begin our run-up to the Theater District Open House, with the first in our yearly series of season-preview conversations with people associated with the participating organizations. Our guest will be the guy who oversees the entire enterprise, Barry Mandel, President and C-E-O of the Houston Downtown Alliance. . . On the last Sunday of […]
Posted on · We welcome Austin-based, folksinger-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson, who will apply her distinctive, smoky voice to a live performance in KUHF’s Studio 3-C. . . She appeares tomorrow night at the upper-Kirby night spot, McGonigel’s Mucky Duck. . . . And we’ll hear some classical music recorded in concert in the Houston-Galveston area. Join us each weekday afternoon […]
Posted on · We look at Oedipus3, the latest offering from one of Houston’s newest cutting-edge theatre companies, the Nova Arts Project. We’ll speak with the production’s three directors, each of whom created a half-hour-long adaptation, up-dating, and staging of one portion of the ancient Greek Oedipus trilogy by Sophocles. . . Also, on Thursday’s show, Houston jazz […]
Posted on · Find out about two productions on stage in Houston, Peter Schaffer’s Black Comedy at Alley Theatre and Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine at FrenetiCore Theater, and get a live preview of the original music for Michelle Brangwen’s newest choreographic piece, from the KUHF Studio. Find out about two productions on stage in Houston, Peter Schaffer’s […]
Posted on · Hear the third-prize-winning performance from the Houston Symphony’s Ima Hogg competition, Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo; find out about this weekend’s program on the Big Range Dance Festival from three of the choreographers involved, and enjoy a live preview of this year’s Juneteenth/Houston Black Dance Festival. Hear the third-prize-winning performance from the Houston Symphony’s Ima Hogg competition, […]
Posted on · Meet the orchestra’s American Conducting Fellow, Rebecca Miller, who will lead the Summer Symphony Nights concert at Miller Theatre on Saturday, and hear the fourth-prize-winning performance from the Houston Symphony’s Ima Hogg Young Artists Competition, also tune in to hear Houston legend, Yvonne Washington, sing jazz live in the KUHF studio. Meet the orchestra’s American […]
Posted on · Hear a studio performance by two faculty artists from the second annual Classical Minds Guitar Festival at the University of Houston: Aaron Brock and Elliott Frank, visit an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by artist Tam van Tran with Blaffer Gallery director Terry Sultan, and meet the percussionist who plays such an […]
Posted on · Hear violinist Adam LaMotte, a Houston native who performs with the Maggini String Orchestra, play solo in the Houston Public Radio Studio, get a description of new pieces Joe Selej and Kiki Lucas have created for the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, and hear what violist Daniel Avshalomov has to say about the American String Quartet […]
Posted on · Hear pianist Loreta Kovacic, Houston’s “Tortured Tendons Alchemist,” play live in the Houston Public Radio Studio, find out about a faculty dance performance at the University of Houston this weekend, and listen to two U. of H. writers read from their prose and poetry that is being published in the newest edition of the literary […]
Posted on · Celebrate National Poetry Month with poet Nick Flynn who reads from his own work, meet the actor who plays the title character in Moliere’s farce The Miser, a joint production of Houston’s Alley Theatre and Theatre de la Jeune Lune of Minneapolis, and take a look at the current Perspectives exhibition at the Contemporary Arts […]
Posted on · Hear music from “Godspell,” performed live in the studio by the cast of Marquerade Theater’s production of the Stephen Schwartz classic, find out how it feels to be portraying one of the best actors of all time from Wilbur Edwin Henry, who plays stage and screen titan Orson Welles at the Alley Theatre, and meet […]
Posted on · You will meeet the character actor who has been playing Daddy Warbucks in Annie on Broadway and across the country for the past two decades; Conrad John Schuck is appearing in the musical at the Wortham Center just now.You can also enjoy concert performances recorded in the Houston area. You will meeet the character actor […]