Tag: visual arts

Posted on February 14, 2014 · Impress the socks off of your Valentine today with your well-rounded knowledge of romantic classical music. MusicLab intern Daniel Webbon has compiled a list of 10 well-known and not so well-known lovey dovey pieces to help you out. Happy Valentine's Day, and may the Force be with you.

Posted on February 12, 2014 · There's a right way to use classical music to woo your woo-ee this Valentine's Day, and there's a wrong way. This list, compiled by MusicLab intern Daniel Webbon, could save you from a romantic disaster. Read it to save yourself from weeping. Or to create a soundtrack for your breakup.

Posted on February 11, 2014 · No date for Valentine's Day? No worries. Wherever you may find yourself on the 14th - either solo or with your sweetheart - join Amy Bishop at noon and at 10pm for "Love Notes," a Valentine's Day special. Hear Houston-area concert recordings with one main theme: romance. (Oooh la la!)

Posted on February 6, 2014 · Artist Paul Kremer, member of Houston's I Love You Baby artist collective, is showing his collection "Great Art in Ugly Rooms" at the Brandon contemporary art gallery through February 16th. The exhibition is a blog come to life, as Kremer has been digitally creating these images and posting them to his blog (of the same name) since early last year. Paul Kremer spoke with Houston Public Media's Dacia Clay at the Brandon in both an extended audio interview, and a video tour of the exhibition.  

Posted on December 13, 2013 · Watch WindSync wind quintet play a live performance live, right here on our website! Just click through on this article at 3pm, this Sunday, 12/15.

Posted on December 10, 2013 · In this Houston Music Highlight the Houston Symphony, under former music director Leopold Stokowski, performs the conductor’s own transcription of a Chopin Mazurka (Op. 17, No. 4) from a recently-rereleased and remastered recording which first came out on the Everest label in 1960.

Posted on December 9, 2013 · Houston's Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth, the Art Guys, celebrate 30 years of collaboration with the creation of a new performative painting.

Posted on December 6, 2013 · Saturday evening, December 6th, at St. John the Divine in River Oaks, the Houston Chamber Choir and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra present Part I of Handel's Messiah (the Christmas part), and Alessandro Scarlatti's Christmas Cantata.  HCC artistic director Robert Simpson came in to talk to St.John Flynn about this Christmas performance by the two ensembles.

Posted on December 6, 2013 · Houston Ballet's annual Jubilee of Dance takes to the stage of the Wortham Center's Brown Theatre tonight, for one night only.  This year's Jubille celebrates Stanton Welch’s 10th anniversary as Artistic Director and features the full company in Welch's re-imagining of Marius Petipa's classical showpiece Paquita.  Houston Ballet's Andrew Edmonson talks about the Jubilee of Dance with St.John Flynn

Posted on December 4, 2013 · Music Lab Intern Daniel Webbon sits down with University of Houston Alumnus George Heathco to talk about his upcoming performance of Steve Reich's 2 x 5. 

Posted on December 4, 2013 · Houston Music Highlight is a regular segment featuring performances by Houston-based ensembles and soloists.  In this segment we hear music by the Presti guitar trio from their recently-released debut album.

Posted on December 3, 2013 · Chiaroscuro is the newly-released CD of chamber music by Shepherd School of Music faculty composer Richard Lavenda.  The five pieces on the album, including a string quintet titled thoughts fly, were all written for friends, many at Rice.  Listen to the composer talking about, and hear a movement from, thoughts fly, from an interview earlier this year with St.John Flynn.

Posted on November 26, 2013 · In celebration of its 65th anniversary, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents round one in a six-part exhibition series exploring contemporary abstraction. On view through January 5.