Category: The Front Row

Posted on October 15, 2013 · We chat with oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz of the Imani Winds.  The quintet, known for its eclectic concert-programs, comes to town for a Houston Friends of Chamber Music recital.

Posted on October 14, 2013 · The Bob Henschen Trio plays jazz numbers from their new album Cravo e Canela --  "Clove and Cinnamon."

Posted on October 14, 2013 · The Bandini-Chiacchiaretta Duo treat us to guitar-and-bandoneón music from Argentina, previewing their concert presented by Guitar Houston.

Posted on October 10, 2013 · Two of the creators of the hard-rock musical Lizzie tell us about their re-interpretation of the legend of Lizzie Borden, the nation’s most famous axe-murderer. The show kicks off the new TUTS Underground series.

Posted on October 10, 2013 · Poets Eleanor Boudreau and Conor Bracken, both graduate students in UH’s Creative Writing Program, share samples of their latest work, previewing a reading presented Gulf Coast Magazine.

Posted on October 10, 2013 · Daniel Woodrell, acclaimed author of Winter's Bone, talks about his newest novel The Maid’s Version, portions of which he will read on this month’s Margarett Root Brown literary forum, presented by Inprint.

Posted on October 10, 2013 · Actors Troy Schulze and Amy Bruce talk about The Catastrophic Theatre’s world-premiere production of The Pine, the newest play by a writer whose work the company has championed: Mickle Maher.

Posted on October 10, 2013 · Members of The Piping Rock Singers perform sacred works from the Medieval and Renaissance periods, previewing their season-opening concert Semi-Millennial Echoes.

Posted on October 10, 2013 · Pianist Sarah Rothenberg, poet Tony Hoagland, and painter Carl Palazzolo discuss the qualities and practices shared by their respective fields of expression: music, literature and visual art.

Posted on October 9, 2013 · Actors from the cast of The Ensemble Theatre’s season-opener Immediate Family talk about this new comedy about the closeted gay member of an African-American family who attempts to come out.

Posted on October 9, 2013 · Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat discusses her brand-new novel Claire of the Sea Light.

Posted on October 9, 2013 · Musicians from the Houston Symphony and Music Doing Good play quintet movements by Mozart and Nielsen, previewing the Saint Cecilia Chamber Music Society’s season-opening concert, “Inspirations.”

Posted on October 8, 2013 · Organizers Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause preview the Third Annual Texas Contemporary Art Fair, opening Thursday at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

Posted on October 8, 2013 · Lead player Scott Willis talks about the stage-musical version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, thje epic tale of three friends who hop aboard a battered bus and embark on an adventure of love and friendship across the Australian Outback.

Posted on October 8, 2013 · We chat with Robert Kleinendorst, a long-time member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, which returns to Houston for the first time in a decade to perform three of its signature pieces.