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Michael Remson: “Year of Song”
Posted on · Composer Michael Remson introduces us to some of the new art-songs he wrote during the year-long project that saw him concentrating on creating only that type of piece.
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HCC Chamber Music Series: “Bohemian Voices”
Posted on · Three members of the Houston Symphony’s string section play pieces by Antonín Dvorák and Zoltán Kodály, previewing the recital, Bohemian Voices.
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“The Music of Salamone Rossi”
Posted on · Cantor Daniel Mutlu and his wife, soprano Nina Faia Mutlu, perform selections by the late Renaissance-Era Italian-Jewish composer Salamone Rossi.
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Context: “Crazy Americans”
Posted on · Artistic director Brian Connelly and fellow performers from the Context chamber-music series talk about their recital of works by innovative, iconoclastic, early-20th-Century American composers.
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“Peter and the Starcatcher”
Posted on · We meet two of the cast members from the national tour of Peter and the Starcatcher, the play-with-music that tells the story of how an orphan with no name came to be Peter Pan.
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Chapman Dance: “Shifting Spaces”
Posted on · Choreographer Teresa Chapman and visual artist Lucinda Cobley talk about the collaboration behind Chapman’s new evening-length program of contemporary dance, Shifting Spaces.
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Houston Grand Opera: “Aida”
Posted on · We herald the opening of the new Houston Grand Opera season with a conversation with mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick and tenor Riccardo Massi. They portray Amneris and Radamès in Verdi's Aida.
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Andres Orozco-Estrada
Posted on · We talk with conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada about the Houston Symphony concerts he’s conducting as his first appearances with the orchestra since being named its music director-designate.
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Music Box Theater: “Saloon Songs”
Posted on · Performers from Music Box Theater give us a sampling of the “country music” chosen for their current contemporary cabaret-and-comedy revue Saloon Songs.
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Mercury: “Young Geniuses”
Posted on · Mercury - The Orchestra Redefined previews the ensemble’s upcoming series of Neighborhood Concerts celebrating three of the world’s greatest composers -- Rossini, Mozart and Mendelssohn -- who were also child prodigies.
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Classical Classroom: Bach’s “Two-Part Inventions”
Posted on · In this episode, composer and pianist Kurt Stallmann talks about the creativity, complexity and beauty packed into Bach's minute-and-a-half-long Two-Part Inventions.
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Stark Naked Theatre: “All Girls”
Posted on · Playwright Anna Greenfield talks about her play All Girls, which explores the joys and the pains of being female and 13 in contemporary American society.
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Wordsmyth Theater: “The Confessions of Deacon Jim”
Posted on · Playwright Jason Aaron Goldberg talks about The Confessions of Deacon Jim, his new play about a young deputy sheriff who must guard a notorious killer. Wordsmyth Theater Company presents a staged reading of the drama.
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MFAH Artful Thursday: Geoff Winningham
Posted on · Photographer and Rice University professor Geoff Winningham discusses the traditions behind Mexico’s annual observance of the Day of the Dead.