Past Articles by KUHF Staff
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 2/03/2009 Pianist Soyoon Lee joins us in the KUHF Performance Studio for a preview of her upcoming performance at Houston Community College Northwest. She plays excerpts by Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Scriabin on KUHF's Steinway... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 02/02/2009 Michael Guidry is the Curator of the University of Houston' art collection and he currently has an exhibition of his own work on view at Wade Wilson Art in Montrose. He chats with KUHF's Meghan Hendley about his series of paintings called, Stranger in Paradise... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 01/29/2009 We speak with Tory Dobrin, the Artistic Director of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the all male parody ballet company that has been doubling over its audiences in waves of laughter for 35 years now. Society for the Performing Arts presents "The Trocks" Saturday evening in Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 01/28/2009 One of the great violinists of our time, Grammy Award-winner and classical-music-heart-throb, Joshua Bell, chats with KUHF's Chris Johnson about the ambitious recital program he and pianist Jeremy Denk will present in Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 01/27/2009 Luc Jacobs, Rehearsal Director for Isarael's Batsheva Dance Company talks about Deca Dance, an evening-length piece by the troupe's Artistic Director, Ohad Naharin, that Batsheva, in it's Houston debut, performs tomorrow evening at Jones Hall in a program co-presented by Society for the Performing Arts and the Jewish Community Center's Dance Month 2009... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 01/26/2009 We welcome pianist Andreas Klein to KUHF's Performance Studio as he prepares for a program to be presented by the Houston Chamber Symphony. Klein plays excerpts from The Art of the Piano Recital on the KUHF Steinway... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 1/23/2009 American composer Joan Tower joins us in the KUHF Performance Studio. She discusses her newest Piano Trio, Rain Waves, which is performed this evening on SYZYGY new-music concert at Rice University, celebrating Ms. Tower's 70th birthday... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 01/21/2009 We welcome one of Houston's favorite voices to the program today as soprano Laura Claycomb is joined in the KUHF Performance Studio by counter-tenor Iestyn Davies for a preview of Houston Grand Opera's current production of Benjamin Britten's setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 01/19/2009 On Martin Luther King Day 2008 we celebrate our nation's foremost advocate of equal rihts, justice, peace, and brotherhood with a studio performance by the Jones Family Singers. They will perfor at the Rothko Chapel this evening... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 1/16/2009 Rising, young mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson is a member of the Young Artists Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera and sings Water Music in the KUHF Performance Studio in anticipation of concert this Sunday afternoon at Epiphany Episcopal Church... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 1/15/2008 Acia Gray (pictured above in mid-air!) is in Houston for Dance Month at the Jewish Community Center. She chats with TFR Producer Bob Stevenson and demonstrates her skills in Studio 3-C... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 1/14/2009 We welcome castmembers from the Main Street Theater production of The Light in the Piazza into the KUHF Performance Studio to perform some excerpts from this sweepingly romantic musical by Adam Guettel... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 1/13/2009 Violinist Weigang Li of the Shanghai Quartet talks with KUHF's Catherine Lu about the concert his ensemble will play for Houston Friends Music. We also hear from violinists Matt Detrick and Timothy Peters as they chat with KUHF's Chris Johnson about the evening of virtuosic French works for violin and piano that they will present on the next concert by the Apollo Chamber Players... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 1/12/2009 Today we welcome Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and journalist Geraldine Brooks to read from and discuss her latest novel, People of the Book. She's presented in Houston at the Jewish Community Center as part of the Imprint/Brown Readin Series... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 01/09/2009 New York bassist Jim Donica performs in KUHF's Performance Studio. He is joined by Houston jazz greats Woody Witt and Ed Soph as we celebrate their performance tomorrow night at Cezanne... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 1/08/2009 We devote a large portion of today's program to the extraordinary - and controversial - Broadway musical Spring Awakening as we speak with one of the show's producers, Tom Hulce and two of the lead players from the national touring company's cast. They are currently in the midst of a two-week run at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 01/07/2009 Mezzo-Soprano Jamie Barton is a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio and will soon present her debut recital in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. She previews that program in Houston this Saturday evening at St. Philip Presbyterian Church and today in KUHF's Performance Studio... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 1/06/2009 Best-Selling author Charlaine Harris talks with KUHF's Bob Stevenson. She is the author whose "Southern Vampire" gothic thrillers inspired the HGO television series True Blood... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 1/02/2009 KUHF's Chris Johnson spends the hour in conversation with author Joseph Horowitz who's recent book, Classical Music in America is a thorough and elightening look at a genre which he refers to as a "mutant transplant" in this country. We look at the past and future of classical music in the United States and sample a wealth of musical examples along the way... |
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Preview Screening of "Revolutionary Road" KUHF and Paramount Vantage present a preview screening of Revolutionary Road, on Thursday, January 8th at 7:30 PM in the Cinemark Memorial City Mall 16. Tickets are available at the House of Coffee Beans on Bissonnet. |
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Preview Screening of "Gran Torino" KUHF and Warner Brothers Pictures present a preview screening of Gran Torino, on Tuesday, January 6th at 7:30 PM in the Edwards Grand Palace on Weslayan. Tickets are available at Brazos Bookstore on Bissonnet. |
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Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings This podcast features Mozart’s Quintet for clarinet and strings in A Major, K. 581, performed by the outstanding ensemble of David Shifrin, clarinet; Vera Beths, violin; John Marcus, violin; James Dunham, viola and Desmond Hoebig, cello. The performance was part of the concert After Einstein: Music and the Relativity of Time, which concluded Da Camera 2007/2008 season. Click here for more information on this piece. |
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The Front Row, Friday, 12/12/2008 Violinist Alla Aranovskaya and violist Boris Vayner of the St. Petersburg Quartet are joined in the KUHF Performance Studio by pianist Zoya Shuhatovich in anticipation of the next Channing Concert which is coming up this Sunday at First Unitarian-Universalist... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 12/11/2008 KUHF's Chris Johnson talks with two members of the Tokyo String Quartet. Violinist Martin Beaver and violist Kazuhide Isomura chat with him about their belated Houston concert which is presented in Stude Concert Hall at Rice University by Houston Friends of Music... |
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KUHF and Miramax Films present a preview screening of Doubt, on Tuesday, December 16th at 7:30 PM in the Angelika Film Center. Tickets are available at the House of Coffee Beans on Bissonnet. |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 12/10/2008 Pianist Vanessa Cunha will perform on the next Impulse Artist Series Recital. She stops into the KUHF Performance Studio with pianist Cameron Smith and Founder and Artistic Director Jade Simmons for a preview of the next artist recitals presented at Wade Wilson Art in Montrose... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 12/09/2008 Castmemebrs from the Theatre Under the Stars brand-new production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas stop into KUHF's Performance Stuido for a preview with TFR Producer Bob Stevenson... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 12/08/2008 Pianist Jade Simmons stops into KUHF's Performance Studio with a trio of youthful performers she's brought in to participate in this year's Impulse Artist Series. We hear music by Brahms and Shubert/Liszt in anticpation of the upcoming week's worth of recitals... |
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Preview Screening of "Slumdog Millionaire" KUHF and Fox Searchlight Pictures present a preview screening of Slumdog Millionaire, on Thursday, December 11th at 7:30 PM in the Angelika Film Center. Tickets are available at Brazos Bookstore on Bissonnet. |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 12/04/2008 Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano gather in the KUHF Performance Studio on the current edition of the program. The Grammy-winning group treats us to a mix of traditional mariachi tunes and Christmas favorites, previewing its concert, Fiesta Navidad... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 12/03/2008 Artistic Director Stanton Welch of the Houston Ballet stops into KUHF studios as his company prepares for the it's annual one-night-only Jubilee of Dance. We also hear a performance of excerpts from Handel's Messiah in Studio 3-c... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 11/28/2008 We spend an hour in conversation with composer Michael Torke on today's edition of the program. He talks with KUHF's Chris Johnson about his music, about making it as a classical composer in the 21st Century and about some of the current issues facing composers and performers... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 11/26/2008 Maestro Alexander Mickelthwate, making a return visit to the Bayou city, discusses the Houston Symphony program that he guest-conducts this weekend in Jones Hall. It includes works by The Last of the Great Romantics. He talks about it with St. John Flynn... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday,11/25/2008 The Invincible Czars take over the KUHF Performnace Studio with their special brand of ho0liday cheer. Teh Czars known for fusing rock with classical and Eastern European folk music treat us to their unique take on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 11/21/2008 Award-winning and much-loved children's book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola stops into the KUHF Studios to show off his latest opus - his first-ever pop-up book - another in his ongoing series of stories about Strega Nona, "Grandmother Witch." He talks with TFR Associate Producer Catherine Lu... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 11/20/2008 We meet one of Israel's most popular singers, Chava Alberstein, whose Society for the Performing Arts-sponsored concert this evening at the Wortham Center is in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Jewish State.... |
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KUHF and Focus Features present a preview screening of Milk, on Tuesday, November 25th at 7:30 PM in the AMC Studio 30 on Dunvale. Tickets are available at Brazos Bookstore on Bissonnet. |
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KUHF Presents a Silent Film Concert at Discovery Green Join us again as KUHF Houston Public Radio presents the next event in our FREE Silent Film Concert featuring a screening of the 1925 film Phantom of the Opera with a live soundtrack composed and performed by Austin’s Golden Arm Trio. Please bring a blanket or chair and join us on the lawn at downtown’s Discovery Green on Friday, November 14 at 7:30 pm to enjoy this unique film and live music presentation. |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 11/05/2008 KUHF's Catherine Lu speaks with Artistic Director Gradimir Pankov about the upcoming Houston appearance of his Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 11/04/2008 Veteran trumpeter Doc Severinsen talks about his newest musical venture, the Latin-jazz group El Ritmo de la Vida. He performs with them friday night at The Clarion at Brzosport College... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 11/03/2008 British artist Lucinda Cobley shows us her paintings currently on display at Wade Wilson ART, in which she applies the vibrant colors of nature to etched glass. She walks KUHF's Meghan Hendley through the gallery... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 10/31/2008 Clarinetist Richard Nunemaker, who retired from the Houston Symphony at the end of the summer after 41 years with the orchestra previews the faculty recital he'll present Monday night at the University of St. Thomas as a offers KUHF listeners a performance of Steve Reich's mesmerizing clarinet piece, New York Counterpoint... |
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Results for key area races according to the Texas Secretary of State. |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 10/30/2008 Soprano Ailish Tynan chats with KUHF's Dean Dalton about her role in the Houston Grand Opera production of Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict. We also hear from Artistic Director Jason Nodler and actor Paul Locklear as they take us behind the scenes of the Catastrophic Theatre production of Mickle Maher's The Strangerer... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 10/29/2008 Curator Alden O'Brien describes one of the highlights of this weekend's International Quilt Festival at the George R. Brown Convention Center. It's an exhibition of antique and early-American quilts from the collection of the Daughters of the American Revolution... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 10/28/2008 Cutting-edge composer Michael Gordon and hi sfrequent collaborator, experimental film-maker Bill Morrison tell us about their brand-new multi-media piece, Lightening at Our Feet, an aural and visual setting of texts by Emily Dickinson, which has its World Premiere, at the Mitchell Center for the Arts... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 10/27/2008 Alecia Lawyer and Robert Simpson share with us about the two Day of the Dead Concerts presented by the combined their ensembles and we chat with pianist Rodney Waters about the next concert on the St. Cecelia Chamber Music Society... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 10/24/2008 Today we introduce you to Bill Morrison, whose award-winning, abstract experimental films will be screened this evening at the Aurora Picture Show and tomorrow night at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 10/23/2008 Violinists Matthew Detrick and Timothy Peters preview the inaugural event of the first full performance season for Apollo Chamber Players. Just in time for Halloween, the program Obsessions and Inspirations features small ensemble pieces that are...well...posessed... |
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Listen to Election Debate Audio on KUHF Click read more below to listen to the presidential debates from the 2008 campaign, and the Harris County Sheriff election debate. |
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