Posted on · California-based pianist and American-music specialist, Sarah Cahill, joins us live to talk about the new works that she's commissioned for A Sweeter Music, the Music for Peace concert she performs this evening at the Rothko Chapel...
Posted on · General Manager Steve Brosvik reveals what kind of musical festivities we can expect at the Houston Symphony's Bach Versus Vivaldi Experience! Beloved mystery writer, Walter Mosley, chats about his new novel, The Long Fall. And we preview the Houston Chamber Choir's next concert.
Posted on · Internationally-acclaimed baritone, Richard Paul Fink — who also happens to be a "hometown guy" based here in Houston — chats about his role as "Alberich" in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung, which opens tonight and which can be heard on KUHF's Live from the Met broadcasts, beginning this Saturday...
Posted on · New research and new collaboration are the goals for the University of Houston's department of health and human performance as its Laboratory of Integrated Physiology expands to the National Center for Human Performance in the Texas Medical Center. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
Posted on · Austin-based classical guitarist, Alejandro Montiel, samples some of the repertoire he'll perform in recital Sunday afternoon at Houston Community College Northwest from the Geary Performance Studio. We also hear from violist James Dunham and some of his students from the Shepherd School of Music in anticipation of tonight's concert presented by the St. Cecilia Friends of Music...
Posted on · In honor of its own fiftieth anniversary, the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater has revived Go in Grace; a piece that celebrates family and community and which is accompanied by music performed live, on-stage, by the African-American traditional vocal ensemble, Sweet Honey in the Rock. We speak with choreographer Hope Boykin and Ysaye Barnwell, a member of Sweet Honey in the Rock...
Posted on · We take a trip to the Wade Wilson Art Gallery to marvel at a series of haunting paintings entitled, Priscilla, by Israeli artist, Yigal Ozeri who is known for his incredibly realistic still-lifes and portraits...
Posted on · Mezzo-soprano Sonja Bruzauskas is joined in the Geary Performance Studio by flutist Daniel Alexander and pianist Matthew Dirst for a preview of the next Salon program offered by Divas World Productions. It's Friday evening at Rothko Chapel...
Posted on · We meet rising, young maestro, Kirill Karabits, who's in town to conduct the Houston Symphony. And two of the Symphony's principal players also perform for us! Performance artist Michelle Ellsworth chats about The Objectification of Things. And singers from Divergence Vocal Theatre preview The 10th Muse.
Posted on · Cholera is not a disease we think about, though in some parts of the world its touch is never far away. One UH researcher is working on an antitoxin to control it. Listen to this week's UH Moment.
Posted on · Artistic Director Antoine Plante gives us a preview of the next concert from Mercury Baroque. Baroque Meditation is program of sacred vocal works by Dieterich Buxtehude and his contemporaries, for which the Mercury Baroque instrumentalists will partner with the Canadian vocal group, Les Voix Baroques...
Posted on · Flutist Colleen Matheu Johnson & friends perform music by Mozart and contemporary Seattle-based composer, Ken Benshoof. Grammy Award-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman talks about the grandeur of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2. And we hear hilarious songs from Nursery School Musical, performed by Theater LaB Houston!
Posted on · Alley Theatre actors James Black and Elizabeth Heflin chat about their eccentric, hilarious and unforgettable characters in the company's current production of the Kaufman and Hart comedy classic, The Man Who Came to Dinner.
Posted on · Best-selling author, Richard Price ... who is also one of the head writers for the HBO television series, The Wire ... talks about his latest novel, Lush Life, from which he'll share excerpts tonight at the Alley Theatre in this month's program in the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, hosted by Inprint, Incorporated...
Posted on · From the Anheuser-Busch Stage at Discovery Green in Downtown Houstonm, we have three live performances on this special edition of our show including Ray Benson and his band, Asleep at the Wheel, who have stopped by on their way to Galveston's Grand 1894 Opera House, where, this weekend, they're going to present encore performances of A Ride with Bob, their tribute to Western Swing pioneer, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. We also hear from Austin's Invincable Czars as the prepare to play the score on tonight's Silent Film presentation presented by KUHF...