Posted on · Harpsichordist Matthew Dirst leads concerts with both Ars Lyrica Houston and the Moores School Collegium Musicum this week. He stopped by KUHF to talk about both programs. . . Dr. Dirst leads Ars Lyrica Houston, including soprano Melissa Givens, in music by Dietrich Buxtehude on a recital presented by Houston’s Bach Society this Sunday afternoon […]
Posted on · On the eve of the 2006 Houston International Festival Houston singer-sonwriter Jack Saunders stopped by the KUHF Performance Studio to give listeners just a taste of some of the music they’ll hear this weekend. . . Jack Saunders will tell his stories and sing his songs tomorow afternoon at 4:00 and again next Saturday at 5:30 […]
Posted on · Houston’s own “Tortured Tendons Alchemist”, pianist Loreta Kovacic, stopped by the KUHF Performance Studio today. . . Piano Notturno is the latest CD from pianist Loreta Kovacic. The cover art for the disk is by Jack Massing of The Art Guys. They both where in Studio 3-C to talk about it with KUHF’s Dean Dalton. Ms. Kovacic also played […]
Posted on · Several Houston Symphony musicians played Beethoven in the KUHF performance studio today in anticipation of the next Chamber Music at the Cathedral concert. . . Flutist John Thorne, violinist Christopher Neal and Violist Joan DerHovsepian stopped by the studios to preview their upcomging performance on the Chamber Music at the Cathedral series. The recital is this […]
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 · Pianist Adam Tendler stopped by the KUHF Performance Studio to give listeners a sample the program of American music he is playing in all 50 states this year. . . Pianist Adam Tendler is a native of rural Vermont and graduate of the Indiana School of Music. Over the past year he has been touring […]
Posted on · Continuing our observance of National Poetry Month, Poet Nick Flynn read from some of his work and talked about the place of poetry in our current society. . . Poet Nick Flynn talked with KUHF’s Alison Young in our continuing series of features in honor of National Poetry Month. He is one of several readers on […]
Posted on · Grammy Award winning country singer, and former Houstonian Larry Gatlin stopped by the program today. He stars in performances of The Will Rogers Follies this weekend in Galveston’s Grand 1894 Opera House. . . Country music star and University of Houston alumnus Larry Gatlin talked with KUHF’s Bob Stevenson. He stars in performances of The […]
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 […]
Posted on · Donna Stoering, an American-born pianist who makes her home in England where she also runs a foundation that puts on public concerts, produces music programming for television, and is in the process of establishing its own cable-T-V network tocelebrate music that doesn’t get much attention from existing media. She will tell the story behind Sergei […]
Posted on · Hear music for the season by the Spanish composer and churchman, Antonio Soler, performed at Round Top by The Orchestra of New Spain, along with music recorded in other area concert venues. Hear music for the season by the Spanish composer and churchman, Antonio Soler, performed at Round Top by The Orchestra of New Spain, […]
Posted on · Meet the very first Old Deuteronomy and the very last Grizabella to appear on Broadway in the 18year run of the musical “Cats.” They are doing those roles in Houston for Theatre Under the Stars.Find out about the two totally unrelated holiday programs the Houston Chamber Choir has on tap this year.And get a preview […]
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 […]