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Alley Theatre: “You Can’t Take It With You”
Posted on · Cast-members Josie de Guzman and Paul Hope talk about the Alley Theatre’s production of You Can’t Take It With You, the classic American comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
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Jeff Franzel
Posted on · Jazz pianist Jeff Franzel takes his place at the Steinway Concert Grand in our Geary Performance Studio, previewing his gig at Cézanne.
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WindSync: “Opening Night”
Posted on · The members of WindSync perform pieces by Francis Poulenc and Billy Joel, previewing the Houston concert that both inaugurates their new season, and serves as a send-off for the group’s upcoming Carnegie Hall debut.
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Opera in the Heights: “La Traviata”
Posted on · Two of Opera in the Heights’s featured soloists perform live for us. They and artistic director Enrique Carreón-Robledo preview the company’s season-opening production of Verdi’s La Traviata.
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Alex McDonald
Posted on · Pianist Alex McDonald, a Dallas native who currently teaches at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, treats us to pieces by Haydn, Ravel and Chopin.
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“You Never Can Tell”
Posted on · Director Carolyn Johnson and actors Jessica Riley and Blake Weir chat about Unity Theatre Brenham’s staging of You Never Can Tell, George Bernard Shaw’s comedy about the intricacies of family inter-relationships in Victorian England.
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“The Enduring Legacies of Serge Koussevitzky and Gary Karr”
Posted on · Bassist Dennis Whittaker and pianist Timothy Hester talk about their upcoming recital in which Whittaker plays a legendary 200-year-old instrument known as “The Karr-Koussevitzky Double-Bass.”
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Mercury: Mozart Piano Concertos
Posted on · Pianist Timothy Hester and Mercury director Antoine Plante talk about the first concert of the ensemble’s new season, which features Hester playing two Mozart piano concertos.
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Classical Classroom: The Flute
Posted on · In this episode, Joel Luks, flutist and arts journalist for the on-line magazine CultureMap, sits down with our audio librarian Dacia Clay for a lesson all about the flute.
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Public Poetry: Usha Akella
Posted on · We meet poet Usha Akella, who shares some of her latest work with us in anticipation of this month’s Public Poetry Reading.
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Uptown Dance Company: “Dance Infusion 2013”
Posted on · Artistic director Beth Gulledge-Brown and choreographer Alex Pandiscio preview Dance Infusion 2013, Uptown Dance Company’s showcase of contemporary and classical ballet, jazz and modern works.
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Sixth Annual Houston Fringe Festival
Posted on · Maggie Lasher of China Cat Dance, choreographer Jacquelyne Jay Boe and composer Paul Connolly talk about the new performances they’re presenting during the Sixth Annual Houston Fringe Festival.
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AURA: “Borderlines”
Posted on · Guest composer Daniel Asia, and members of the Moores School of Music’s contemporary ensemble AURA, preview the group’s first concert of the season, Borderlines.
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Michael Bise: “Love in the Kingdom of the Sick”
Posted on · Visual artist Michael Bise shows us the large-scale drawings included in his current Moody Gallery exhibition Love in the Kingdom of the Sick. The images were inspired by the experiences Bise underwent during heart-transplant surgery.
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Houston Latin-American Philharmonic: “Viva Latin America”
Posted on · Music director Glenn Garrido introduces us to one of Venezuela’s leading tenors, Jorge Quintero, who performs with Houston's Latin-American Philharmonic.