The Front Row

Friday on The Front Row

Posted on · Today we jump into the pre-Christmas performance season, with visits from Michael Wilson whose adaptation of Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” is getting a fresh production at the Alley Theatre this year, and from two young Houston Ballet dancers who will be taking on the featured role of the Sugar Plum Fairy for the first time […]

The Front Row

Friday on The Front Row

Posted on · Hear a live preview of the upcoming Col Canto song recital, “Toward the Blue Garden: Spirituality in Song”… as well as three Houston Symphony musicians demonstrating how the well-known and seemingly simple tune of Ravel’s Bolero is more sophisticated than you might think … and world-renowned Indian classical musician Amjad Khan talks about his Saturday […]

The Front Row

Studio 3C

Posted on · Houston Public Radio’s Studio 3C is where the live and recorded performances that air on the station’s weekday afternoon arts magazine, “The Front Row” take place. Musicians who have upcoming concerts in the Houston area appear as guests on The Frong Row, where they talk about and perform selections from their public events. Among the […]

The Front Row

Oscar Casares

Posted on · Collection of short stories March 10, 2003: Oscar Casares — Oscar Casares, Texas born author of “Brownsville,” discusses the collection of short stories, which were inspired by memories of childhood in the Valley, and his own development as a writer of literary fiction. More at twbookmark.com. Click here to listen to this discussion.