Category: Shows

Posted on April 4, 2008 · Today, violinists Jonathan Godfrey and Oleg Sulyma, cellist Barrett Sills, and harpsichordist Bill Averill of the Mercury Baroque Chamber Ensemble give us a live preview of Zoo-Musicologist, the family concert they'll present Sunday afternoon in of the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  Also, a Houston Symphony string quartet will perform pieces by World War II era Jewish composers whose work was banned by the Nazis: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Erwin Schulhoff, and Alexander von Zemlinsky...

Posted on April 3, 2008 · Today we talk with Alley resident actor John Tyson, who stars in and is the lone cast member of Greg Berger's literary mystery Underneath the Lintel. We also hear from Buck Ross and Peter Jacoby, the Moores Opera Center's Dynamic Duo, who tell us about their new production of William Bolcom's opera, A Wedding-based on the Robert Altman movie.  Dean Gladden, the Managing Director of the Alley Theatre co-hosts...

Posted on April 2, 2008 · Today we meet Kwame Ryan, the Musical Director of France's Bordeaux-Aquitaine National Orchestra; he will guest conduct this weekend's Houston Symphony Classical Series concerts at Jones Hall.  Artistic Director and pianist Keith Weber and his longtime performing colleague, singer-actor Vern Sutton, talk with us about their Friday evening presentation of Façade, the delightfully quirky musical entertainment by English composer William Walton and poet Edith Sitwell.  Alecia Lawyer, the founder, Executive Director and Principal Oboe of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra co-hosts...

Posted on April 1, 2008 · Today we meet actor-singer Kevin Smith Kirkwood who plays Mitch in the Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the off-beat and hilarious Tony-Award-winning musical, whose national tour is currently playing at the Hobby center.  Canadian born composer, Sydney Hodkinson, tells us about his two chamber works that will be performed on this evening's Syzygy: New Music at Rice concert at the Shepherd School of Music.  Sarah Loudermilk, Executive Director of the chamber-music society, Da Camera of Houston, is a special guest of the hour...

Posted on March 31, 2008 · Today we speak with two literary guests, both of whom are in town for readings and book-signings this evening.  Colombian author, Laura Restrepo reads and discusses her awards winning 2004 novel, Delirium. We also speak with Novelist Lisa See about her book Peony in Love, a re-telling of a true story from Seventeenth Century China.  Executive Director of the Houston Symphony Matthew VanBesien co-hosts...

Posted on March 28, 2008 · Today we visit with Kim Stoilis, Executive Director of the Art Colony Association, and Houston abstract painter, Ray Phillips, on 300 artists and craftspeople exhibiting their wares at the Bayou City Art Festival, this weekend at Memorial Park.  Famed New York choreographer Bill T. Jones tells us about his multi-media dance-theater piece, Chapel/Chapter, which his Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will perform at Jones Hall...

Posted on March 27, 2008 · Christopher O'Riley, NPR's From the Top host, visits Houston for a taping of classical musicians between 9 and 19... Adam Tendler, from the Foundation for Modern Music and music host for Houston Public Radio talks with Chris Johnson about Music for Peace at Rothko Chapel...Robert Redford and the documentary film called Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars...

Posted on March 26, 2008 · Dr. Philip Yosowitz chats about his new musical, The Gold, inspired by family members who survived the Holocaust.  Musicologist Matthew Dirst gives us a preview of Ars Lyrica Houston's next program, When in Rome.  And we journey to Lawndale Art Center to visit new sculptures by Czech-born artist Hana Hillerova.

Posted on March 25, 2008 · Sir Neville Marriner discusses the 50th anniversary tour of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with pianist Yuja Wang. Mercury Baroque's Antoine Plante tells us about the U.S. premiere of a piece by Antonio Caldara. Also, castmembers from the Masquerade Theatre give us a preview of their production of Lucky Stiff.

Posted on March 24, 2008 · KUHF's Laurie Johnson takes a tour of the Orange Show's newly restored Beer Can House. Pianist Kris Becker tells us about his performance in HCC Northwest's Piano Recital Series. Also, Wade Wilson and vocalist Kristine Mills join us in the studio for some live jazz music.

Posted on March 21, 2008 · Trumpet Chris Botti joins us on the program today. He talks with TFR Producer Bob Stevenson about this weekend's concerts with the Houston Symphony. We also meet film-maker Chantal Ackerman. Her work is currently on view at the University of Houston's Blaffer Gallery . . .

Posted on March 20, 2008 · Guitarist Edward Grigassy and the musicians from his latest project, The Old School Swing Band perform in KUHF's Studio 3-C. We also get the scoop on Dance Salad from producer Nancy Henderek. Perfomances are now underway at Houston's Wortham Center . . .

Posted on March 19, 2008 · Chinese photo-artist Xing Danwen's pictorial "Urban Fictions" is on display in one of the FotoFest biennial's official exhibitions. She talks with Catherine Lu about her work. Dylan Godwin and Josh Wright make up the entir cast of the TheaterLab production of Gutenberg! The Musical! They preview the show in KUHF's Performance Studio . . .

Posted on March 18, 2008 · Shepherd School of Music Faculty artists violinist, Kenneth Goldsmith, cellist Norman Fischer, and Jeanne Kierman Fischer play an excerpt from the program they play this evening at Rice University. We also hear from the cast of RatPack - Live at the Sands. It's currently on stage at Houston's Hobby Center for the Performing Arts . . .

Posted on March 17, 2008 · David Rainey and James Black are Alley Theatre Resident Company members and they stop into the KUHF studios for a conversation about Othello with Dean Dalton. In addittion we observe scenes from around New York Cirty through a glass, obscurely, in the colorful and highly-textured photographs of native Houstonian Lindsay Oshman. . .