Meghan Hendley

Posted on December 17, 2008 · Today, we visit with members of the cast from Texas Repertory Theatre's third annual presentation of A Christmas Story, humorist Jean Shepherd's hilarious reminiscence of childhood Christmas-time adventures growing up in Nineteen-Forties Indiana.

Posted on December 16, 2008 · Today, Alley Theatre resident actor Todd Waite talks about his role as a guy who works as one of Santa's elves in the Macy's Department Store holiday display, in the Alley's stage version of David Sedaris's hilarious memoir, The Santaland Diaries.

Posted on December 15, 2008 · Houston Chamber Symphony Artistic Director, Michael Lowe, sat down at the piano to accompany two of his violin soloists, Ferenc Illényi and Kurt Johnson, in a movement from Bach's Double Concerto, one of the pieces that the Chamber Symphony has included on its all-Bach program, presented at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall.

Posted on November 26, 2008 · We are introduced to 'The Idea Fund', a brand-new granting project that has been underwritten by The Warhol Foundation and administered to artists by three local arts organizations: DiverseWorks, the Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses. It will finance at least twenty innovative visual-and-performing-arts projects over the next two years.

Posted on November 20, 2008 · We have a live performance featuring music from "Every Sound You Can Imagine", Musiqua's latest loft concert in collaboration with the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston and their current exhibition featuring musical scores from modern composers.

Posted on November 20, 2008 · Pianist Sarah Rothenberg, Artistic Director of Da Camera of Houston, plays keyboard miniatures by Erwin Schulhoff and Arnold Schoenberg, previewing Da Camera concert at the Menil Collection that traces the parallel development of the avant-garde in both visual art and music in the Twentieth Century.

Posted on November 20, 2008 · KUHF's Meghan Hendley looks at recent paintings, drawings and collages by Houston visual artist, Floyd Newsum, on display in his show, Primary Concerns, now in its final week at the Joan Wick and Company Gallery.

Posted on November 20, 2008 · We welcome back to the KUHF Performance Studio, composer-musician Graham Reynolds and his Golden Arm Trio from Austin. They perform excerpts from the score Mister Reynolds has created for the 1925 silent-film version of The Phantom of the Opera. KUHF will show that classic movie, and the Golden Arm Trio will accompany the screening with a live performance of their musical soundtrack, on the second of KUHF's free Silent Film Concert programs at Discovery Green Park.

Posted on November 14, 2008 · Singers Misha Penton, Shelley Auer and Kinga Ferguson perform excerpts from the first production of their new chamber-opera company, the Divergence Vocal Theater. The Ottavia Project is a dramatic fusion of selections from a seventeenth-century opera and a play from ancient Rome.

Posted on November 13, 2008 · Today, soprano Tracy Rhodus and Artistic Director and pianist, Michael Zuraw, perform songs by Samuel Barber, previewing the next APERIO: Music of the Americas concert — a whole evening of chamber works by Mister Barber -- that recital taking place Friday evening at Houston's Covenant Church.

Posted on November 12, 2008 · Today, Houston-based, English-born pianist Clive Swansbourne plays a couple of Impromptus for us, previewing the next-to-last of the Thursday-evening recitals he's giving at the Rothko Chapel, focusing on the late keyboard works of Franz Schubert.

Posted on November 11, 2008 · Today, faculty artists from both the Shepherd and Moores Schools of Music -- violinists Kenneth Goldsmith and Kyung-Sun Lee, and violist Ivo-Jan van der Werff -- perform Mozart and Dvorák live for us, previewing the recital they'll present Wednesday evening at Rice University.