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The Front Row, Monday, 12/15/2008

Posted on · 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.

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The Front Row, Monday, 11/24/2008

Posted on · 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.

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The Front Row, Tuesday, 11/18/2008

Posted on · 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.

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The Front Row, Friday, 11/14/2008

Posted on · 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.

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The Front Row, Wednesday, 11/12/2008

Posted on · 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.