Past Articles by kuhf staff
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The Front Row, Friday, 06/26/2009 American Festival for the Arts faculty member, pianist Rodolfo Morales, sits down at the KUHF Steinway to play Liszt for us! Joining him in conversation with us are AFA Executive and Artistic Director Michael Remson and two more AFA faculty artists, Utah Symphony first violinists, Barbara Scowcroft and her husband, Ralph Matson... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 06/25/2009 Houston Symphony Associate Conductor, Robert Franz … Assistant Conductor, Brett Mitchell … and piano soloist, Roberto Plano, talk about this weekend’s Summer Symphony Nights concerts at Miller Outdoor Theatre, which feature Mister Plano in Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto tomorrow evening … and the Second-Prize-winner of the recent Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition - Hee-Young Lim - in the Elgar Cello Concerto on Saturday night… |
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Preview Screening of "Food, Inc." KUHF and Magnolia Pictures present a preview screening of Food, Inc. on Wednesday, June 24th at 7:30 PM in the Angelika Film Center. Tickets are available at the House of Coffee Beans on Bissonnet. |
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Da Camera Podcast: Zhou Long's The Farewell and Mahler's Der Abschied This concert podcast features two works from Da Camera’s January 2009 concert, Songs of the Earth. The artists participating in these January 2009 performances were soprano Susanne Mentzer, Min Xiao-Fen, pipa; Wang Guowei, erhu and a Da Camera Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gregory Vajda. Click on Read More for a complete list of the artists. |
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The Front Row, Monday, 06/15/2009 Actors Branden Hearnsberger and Jeffrey Bean talk about the roles they play in the Alley Theatre’s production of The Farnsworth Invention, the true story of the creation of the electronic television system we still use today by Philo T. Farnsworth (pictured |
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Da Camera Podcast: episode number four partnership with Houston's Da Camera- features Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, performed by the outstanding ensemble of David Shifrin, clarinet; Vera Beths, violin, Desmond Hoebig, cello and Sarah Rothenberg, piano. |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 06/10/2009 Called “one of the most intriguing painters working today,” South African-born artist, Marlene Dumas shows us some of the pieces in Measuring Your Own Grave, a mid-career survey of her work, currently on view at the Menil Collection. Ms. Dumas’ images often depict her human subjects at the extreme fringes of life’s cycle, from birth to death... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 06/08/2009 Today, we kick off our coverage of the 20th annual Texas Music Festival at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, with a live studio performance by one of the Affiliate Artists who serve as faculty for the TMF Jazz Institute. Guitarist Mike Wheeler -- along with the workshop’s director, Noe Marmolejo -- give us a preview of the Jazz Project’s 2009 concert, which is presented tomorrow night at the University of Houston and Wednesday evening at Texas A&M University in College Station. . . . |
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The Front Row, Friday, 06/07/2009 Three members of Austin’s Golden Hornet Project - including composer and keyboardist Graham Reynolds, perform part of the score they’ll play live at Discovery Green tonight, as they accompany KUHF’s screening of the 1926 science-fiction silent-film classic, Metropolis. Plus, we hear a performance session with the Texas Guitar Quartet as we look ahead to the 2009 edition of the Classical Minds Guitar Festival at the University of Houston... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 06/04/2009 French-born conductor Pascal Verrot talks about his love of the music of his countrymen, Albert Roussel and Henri Dutilleux, which he’s programmed for this Saturday’s opening orchestral concert at the 39th International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Texas. We also have a performance by four of the Houston Symphony’s first-chair section leaders who will be gathered together in our studio as the Restoration Chamber Players... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 06/03/2009 Today, we focus on the 2009 edition of the annual Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition as we speak with the manager of the event, Roger Daily, the Houston Symphony’s Director of Education and Community Outreach … and with last year’s Ima Hogg Competition Gold Medalist, Hungarian cellist, László Mezö... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 06/02/2009 We welcome back to Houston two of America’s favorite family entertainers: folk-rock vocalist and guitarist Ezra Idlet and singer and bass-player, Keith Grimwood - Trout Fishing in America. They have just released a new story-book and accompanying CD for kids, My Name is Chicken Joe and join Bob Stevenson in the Geary Performance Studio for a preview session... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 06/01/2009 Today, we chat with a man regarded by many as America’s Greatest Living Playwright, Edward Albee. He was in town earlier this year to attend a performance of his play, At Home at the Zoo, at the University of Houston School of Theatre, where Mister Albee used to direct the annual New Playwrights Workshop. . . . |
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Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition The annual Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition approaches this year's final rounds, having attracted one of the largest applicant pools in the competition's history. Tune in as each of four finalists perform an entire concerto from memory with the Houston Symphony conducted by Christoph Campestrini in concert. KUHF's Bob Stevenson and St. John Flynn are your hosts. Broadcast on 88.7FM, HD-1, and online stream: KUHF Classical. |
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The Front Row, Friday, 05/29/2009 We chat with Broadway superstar Topol, who, for what he says is the final time, has donned the cap and prayer shawl of Tevye, the wry village milkman who is the central character of the beloved musical, Fiddler on the Roof. The Broadway Across America Series has brought Topol’s Farewell Tour of the show into Houston’s Hobby Center for a two-week run... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 05/28/2009 Pianist Evelyn Chen, clarinetist David Peck, violinist Ferenc Illenyi and cellist Brinton Averil Smith play pieces that resulted from well-known musical friendships and collaborations between composer and performers of the late 19th Century … previewing the second program in the new Restoration Chamber Music Series, to be presented tomorrow evening at Galveston Island’s historic Garten Verein dance pavilion in Kempner Park... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 05/27/2009 We chat with New York Times best-selling author, Lee Child, about his new Jack Reacher thriller, Gone Tomorrow, the latest example of his suspenseful, action-packed style of story-telling... |
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SOUNDS LIKE FUN! The Houston Symphony's annual Sounds Like Fun! series returns with FREE public concerts at locations throughout Houston. A relaxed and dynamic experience designed for the whole family to enjoy, each performance comes with pre-concert access to the Instrument Petting Zoo, which gives children of all ages the chance to try their hand at performing an orchestral instrument.
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 05/26/2009 In a time when many people are saying that classical music is on its way out, Pierre Schwob, the creator and CEO of the on-line music source, CLASSICAL ARCHIVES, tells us why he poured another 4 million dollars of his own money into upgrading his venture into the largest collection of classical music available on the Internet... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 05/25/2009 Today, we spend the hour with one of the world’s most energetic, skillful and prolific concert and studio artists, Turkish pianist, Idil Biret. She’s well on her way to making a place for herself in the record books for having made some 80 recordings over the past 20 years. She talks with us about the history of classical music in her native country and her interactions with some of the greatest pianists and teachers of the 20th Century and she plays a piece by Liszt, transcriptions of works by Bach and Handel and preludes by Turkish composer, Adnon Tzigun … |
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The Front Row, Friday, 05/22/2009 Today, we find ourselves “Deep in the West,” as we welcome to KUHF’s George Geary Studio a man whose name has been synonymous with Texas Music for the last 30 years, folk-pop singer-songwriter, Shake Russell. He previews the performance he’ll give tonight at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck... |
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Travis Elementary Closed Until Summer School The state and city health departments have requested that Travis Elementary remain closed for a period up to ten more days — so it will not re-open on Tuesday. School officials anticipate re-opening for summer school in June. |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 05/21/2009 An expanded version of Two Star Symphony plays excerpts from the instrumental score they’ve created for the 1924 Harold Lloyd romantic movie comedy, Girl Shy, which KUHF will screen - with Two Star Symphony providing the live musical soundtrack -- on the radio station’s Silent Film Concert Series, tomorrow evening at Discovery Green Park in downtown Houston... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 05/20/2009 Today, we welcome artists from the 2009 Opera Vista Festival! Known for its contemporary, and often provocative, fully-staged productions, the Festival’s main attraction is its Opera Competition. Artistic Director Viswa Subbaraman talks about this year’s 6 semi-finalists. And, soprano Vanessa Beaumont and tenor John Weinel sing excerpts from Edalat Square, a controversial new opera by R. Timothy Brady... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 05/19/2009 Actors from Masquerade Theatre, along with Artistic Director Philip Duggins, perform numbers from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, based on the life of early twentieth-century Argentinean First Lady and national heroine, Eva Perón... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 05/18/2009 Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet Orchestra principal cellist, Barrett Sills, tells us about the cello extravaganza that he has organized for the final St. Cecilia Chamber Music concert of the season. The recital includes the World Première of a new piece, commissioned by the Saint Cecilia Society and written by Texas composer, Eric McIntyre... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 05/15/2009 The little ol' Celtic band from Texas, Clandestine, performs live for us! Known for their regular appearances at the Texas Scottish Festival and the North Texas Irish Festival, Clandestine brings its newly re-formed group, with fiddle, cittern and bagpipes in tow, to the Geary Performance Studio, for a preview of the band’s weekend shows at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck and the Houston Highland Games... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 05/14/2009 Musicians from Mercury Baroque, led by Artistic Director, Antoine Plante, join us live to perform excerpts from Jean-Baptiste Lully’s 1686 opera, Armide. We also talk with the hot young virtuoso violinist Eugene Ugorski. He joins the Houston Symphony for performnaces this weekend in Jones Hall and at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 05/13/2009 Today, we feature a performance by vocal soloists associated with the United Nations Association International Choir and with Space City Gamelan, who with U-N-A Choir Artistic Director, Phillip Kloeckner - treat us to selections from the concert A Choral Kaleidoscope: Ten Years of Song... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 05/12/2009 Carole Nelson, Artistic Director of the Houston Boychoir and University of Houston faculty composer, Robert Nelson, tell us about the Boychoir’s Sail Park project. The ensemble commissioned three professional composers to create musical settings for poems written by young dialysis patients at Texas Children’s Hospital. The Houston Boychoir performs those freshly-minted works in concert Sunday afternoon at the U-H Moores Opera House... |
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Da Camera Podcast: Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time This podcast- the fourth in our partnership with Houston's Da Camera- features Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, performed by the outstanding ensemble of David Shifrin, clarinet; Vera Beths, violin, Desmond Hoebig, cello and Sarah Rothenberg, piano. |
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The Front Row, Monday, 05/11/2009 Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and company member Todd Waite talk with us about the Alley’s production of Tom Stoppard’s play, Rock ‘n’ Roll, the story of a Czech student, a communist British Professor and a Flower Child - and the effects that rock music and the social-political movements of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties have on the characters’ lives over the course of two decades... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 05/08/2009 Today we ask, “Which is more enduring, Beauty or Pleasure?” That's the question at the heart of George Frideric Handel’s very first oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno - The Triumph of Time and Disillusionment, which Ars Lyrica Houston presents Sunday afternoon at the Hobby Center. Today, Artistic Director Matthew Dirst and a group of his musicians, including counter-tenor Gerrod Pagenkopf and tenor Joseph Gaines, join us live for excerpts from this striking musical setting of the battle of the wills... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 05/06/2009 The 2009 Art Car Weekend is upon us. And, in anticipation of the 22nd Annual Art Car Parade we chat with art-car artists Kenny Browning and Bryan Taylor chat about their mobile creations, The Iron Maiden and Party Boat, inspired by a Viking warship ... and Santa Car Three, dedicated to Santa Claus and his sleigh. Those are a couple of the 250 road-worthy art works, from sublime to absurd, that will be rolling along Allen Parkway into downtown Houston this weekend... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 05/05/2009 Artistic Director Stanton Welch gives us a sense of the program Houston Ballet will present in its annual appearance at Miller Outdoor Theatre this weekend: the bill includes classics by two giants of twentieth-century dance, George Balanchine and Hans van Manen … and two relatively new works by Welch himself... |
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School Closings Due to Swine Flu The Houston Health Department says all Houston area schools can reopen Wednesday. Federal health officials are no longer recommending that schools close if students come down with swine flu. Some schools are choosing to open on Thursday. |
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The Front Row, Monday, 05/04/2009 We follow a group of visual artists as they venture into a field other than the one they’re best known for … as we look at sketches, studies and other works on paper by seven artists who’ve generally made their name as painters. A collection of their drawings is currently on display in the exhibition, Beneath the Seen, at the Wade Wilson Art gallery... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 05/01/2009 Bayou City jazz vocalist, Kristine Mills, joins us in the studio live to sing some of the original Brazilian-flavored songs that appear on her brand-new album, bossanovafied, which she’ll celebrate with a CD Release Party, tomorrow night at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 04/30/2009 Today, we preview the brand-new opera, Brief Encounter, by Grammy and Academy-Award-winning composer, pianist and conductor, André Previn. It opens tomorrow night at the Wortham Center, where it’s being presented by Houston Grand Opera, and we speak with The Man Himself - André Previn - along with librettist and director, John Caird … soprano Elizabeth Futral … and baritone Nathan Gunn … each of them sharing their particular insights on this World Première production, based on a play and film scripted by Noel Coward. … |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 04/29/2009 Conductor Leonard Slatkin stops by the program today. He is joined by composer Roberto Sierra, soprano Heidi Grant Murphy and baritone Thomas Meglioranza for a discussion with KUHF's Dean Dalton about Sierra's Missa Latina which is receiving it's Texas premiere this weekend in concerts with the Houston Symphony... |
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The Front Row, Tuessday, 04/28/2009 The dancers of the Houston Ballet are currently on tour. The company is on its first visit to Europe in seven years and its first tour of Spain since 1982. The Ballet’s General Manager Jim Nelson gives us a report from the road... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 04/02/2009 We get a taste of “Subversive Jazz” from visiting trumpeter Tim Hagans and Houston’s Core Trio, as they join forces with the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble for a concert Saturday night at the Barnvelder Theatre featuring a program of original, improvised music paired with spontaneous dance works. Today we hear a preview from the Geary Performance Studio... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 04/22/2009 Irish fiddler Kevin Burke and guitarist Cal Scott play ballads and reels for us, looking ahead to their performances this weekend at the Houston International Festival’s Salute to Ireland... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 04/21/2009 Producer and actress Christina Mauro talks about her film, Stellina Blue, in which she plays the title character. The movie has its Texas Premiere tonight at the AMC 30 Theatre on Dunvale; it’s one of the 56 new feature-length independent films being screened at this year’s WorldFest - the Houston International Film Festival... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 04/21/2009 Today, we speak with Phillip Setzer, violinist with the internationally-acclaimed Emerson String Quartet. Mr. Setzer and his colleagues play pieces by Mozart, Webern, Prokofiev and Dvorák in the season’s concluding Houston Friends of Music chamber recital, tomorrow evening in Rice University’s Stude Concert Hall... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 04/17/2009 Flutist Christina Jennings is joined in the Geary Performance Studio by composer Cater Pann to discuss Pann's Flute Concerto which was comissioned and will recieve it's world premiere performance by the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra this weekend... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 04/16/2009 Houston Grand Opera Studio alumnus, baritone Scott Hendricks, and Met Opera National Council Auditions winner, tenor Eric Cutler, give us a preview of H-G-O’s new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto plus some perspective on their respective roles as the opera’s title-character and his boss, the licentious Duke of Mantua... |
