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"Classical Minds" Guitar Institute and Competition We have a studio performance by guitarist Valerie Hartzell, previewing a recital she’s giving Sunday, benefiting her “Classical Minds” Guitar Institute and Competition |
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Choreographer Erin Reck and vocalist Natasha Manley preview Up for Air, Reck’s new site-specific work for dancers and opera singers, inspired by and set around the reflecting pool in Hermann Park. |
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Alley Theatre: "Warrior Class" Actors Vito D’Ambrosio and Nick Maccarone discuss the Alley Theatre’s production of Warrior Class, a new play by Kenneth Lin. |
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Hans Graf chats about his final concerts as music director of the Houston Symphony. His Farewell program features Gustav Mahler’s spiritually-charged Symphony Number Two, “The Resurrection.” |
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Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival: "Make Believe" Singers from the Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival perform songs from the Disney's animated fairy-tale films. It’s a preview of Lone Star’s cabaret show Make Believe. |
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We speak with award-winning choreographer and designer Shen Wei, whose company comes to Houston to perform Shen’s version of The Rite of Spring. |
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Pianist Zoya Shuhatovich previews the recital she’s giving in Houston before she heads overseas on a European tour. |
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Black Lab Theatre: "Chinglish" We speak with the director and the two lead actors from Black Lab Theatre’s production of Chinglish, a bi-lingual culture-clash comedy by David Henry Hwang. |
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Fayetteville Chamber Music Festival Musicians from the Fayetteville Chamber Music Festival perform selections by Max Reger and Franz Berwald, previewing the final weekend of this year’s music-gathering in the central Texas countryside. |
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Houston Chamber Choir: Mozart's Great C-Minor Mass Robert Simpson talks about Mozart’s Great C-Minor Mass, the piece his Houston Chamber Choir performs as the grand finale to its 17th concert season. |
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Bayou City Concert Musicals: "Alone Together: The Songs of Arthur Schwartz" Vocalists from Bayou City Concert Musicals share some of the numbers that Arthur Schwartz contributed to The Great American Songbook. |
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The Moores School of Music Concert Chorale The Moores School of Music Concert Chorale performs works it'll perform in Marktoberdorf, Germany, when it participates in the 13th International Chamber Choir Competition. |
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United Nations Association International Choir: "Songs of Yesterday, Traditions of Tomorrow" Director Eric Esparza and members of his United Nations Association International Choir treat us to selections from their Spring concert Songs of Yesterday, Traditions of Tomorrow. |
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Artistic director Antoine Plante discusses Mercury's season-finale concert, featuring period-instruments performances of Beethoven’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies. |
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"There Is a Happiness That Morning Is" Actors Amy Bruce and our own Troy Schulze chat about Catastrophic Theatre’s revival of There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Mickle Maher’s ode to love, sex and the poetry of William Blake. |
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Saint Cecilia Chamber Music Society: "Three, Four and More" Members of the Saint Cecilia Chamber Music Society play Mozart and Dvorák, previewing their season-finale concert, Three, Four and More. |
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Playwright Jayme McGhan talks about Autonomy, his drama about a physicist (and outspoken atheist) who claims to have proven definitively that God doesn't exist. |
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Artists Dion Laurent and Rebecca Bass describe the quirky, self-propelled mobile sculptures they’ve created to roll down Allen Parkway as part of the 26th Annual Art Car Parade. |
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The Piping Rock Singers: "Ave Eva" Houston’s Piping Rock Singers perform, previewing their Mother’s Day concert Ave Eva, a program of Medieval and Renaissance music that illuminates various aspects of the life of the Virgin Mary. |
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Philip Glass Ensemble: "Dracula" We chat with Michael Riesman, music director of the Philip Glass Ensemble. That group -- with Philip Glass himself on keyboards -- presents Dracula: The Music and Film. |
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Artists from Musiqa preview the ensemble's Loft Concert at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, which focuses on composers inspired by the visual and performance-art movements of the late 20th Century. |
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Fayetteville Chamber Music Festival Clarinetist Håkan Rosengren and two of his fellow artists from the Fayetteville Chamber Music Festival perform pieces by Robert Schumann and Arthur Honegger. |
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Texas Repertory Theatre: "Tribute" Artistic director Steven Fenley and actor Jim Salners chat about Texas Repertory Theatre’s production of Tribute, a comedy about family, forgiveness and what’s important in life. |
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Houston Latin American Philharmonic Founder and music director Glenn Garrido and two of the Houston Latin American Philharmonic's principal players tell us about the ensemble’s debut concert A Mother’s Day Serenade. |
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"Optical Spaces: The Art of Victor Vasarely" Curator Orna Feinstein shows us the geometric graphic works and prints by the "Father of Op Art” Victor Vasarely that are currently on view at the Museum of Printing History. |
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Director Rob Kimbro and two of his cast members from the Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company, introduce us to Ravenscroft, a darkly comedic send-up of the good, old-fashioned English murder-mystery. |
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Singer-songwriter Daniel Valdez, a leading musician of the Chicano movement of the '60s and '70s, performs some of his original songs for us, previewing his concert at MECA. |
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The Austin band My Education performs selections from their original score to Sunrise, a classic 1927 silent film by F.W. Murnau. |
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Leading players from Bayou City Theatrics perform numbers from their new production of Elton John and Tim Rice’s Broadway-musical re-telling of Aida. |
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Bestselling author Augusten Burroughs tells us about his latest book, This Is How, which combine the characteristics of a self-help advice-manual and a memoir. |
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Maestro Hans Graf and violin soloist Eugene Ugorski discuss Mozart, Stravinsky and more. |
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Public Poetry: Gerald Cedillo and Katharine Jager Houston poets Gerald Cedillo and Katharine Jager share some of their recent writings, previewing their joint appearance on this month's Public Poetry Reading. |
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Members of Gente de Teátro, the Spanish-language theater company based at Rice University, talk about their new production of Fuga (Escape), a comedy by contemporary Catalonian playwright, Jordi Galçerán. |
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We talk with pianist and arranger Oscar Hernández, founder and director of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. |
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Da Camera: "In the Garden of Dreams" Artistic director and pianist Sarah Rothenberg, mezzo-soprano Charlotte Hellekant, and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel perform for us, previewing Da Camera’s season-finale concert In the Garden of Dreams. |
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Director and Shakespearean scholar Kate Pogue chats about her adaptation of Julius Caesar, to be performed in the Elizabethan accent of Shakespeare’s time. |
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Classical Classroom: Richard Strauss' "Four Last Songs" In this episode, Classical 91.7's Dacia Clay and St.John Flynn discuss one of the most beautiful pieces ever written, Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. |
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"Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible" At the Menil Collection, we explore the first retrospective exhibition in 20 years of work by the psychologically-troubled, visionary Bay City artist Forrest Bess. |
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We chat with cellist David Finckel, who makes his final Houston appearance as a member of the world-renowned Emerson String Quartet. |
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Apollo Chamber Players: "Muses of Love and Folksong" The Apollo Chamber Players perform, previewing their concert Muses of Love and Folksong. |
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Writer Gwendolyn Zepeda discusses her role as Houston’s first-ever poet laureate. |
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Canconier: "The Black Dragon: Music in the Time of Vlad Dracula" We chat with Tim Rayborn, founder and director of the California-based medieval-music ensemble Cançonièr. Houston Early Music’s presents the group's concert The Black Dragon: Music in the Time of Vlad Dracula. |
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We chat with Clay Ross, founder of the band Matuto, who perform their particular style of forró -- the dance music of northeastern Brazil. |
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The Meridian Ensemble String Quartet The Meridian Ensemble String Quartet is joined by Houston Community College composers Stephen Yip and Joe LoCascio for a concert preview. |
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Houston Grand Opera: "Il Trovatore" International singing star Dolora Zajick talks about Houston Grand Opera’s production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore. |
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Collectors/curators/organizers Chris Higham and Michel Muylle present the pop-up gallery exhibition "A Bit of What You Fancy," featuring contemporary art by 19 established and emerging Texas-based artists. The one-night-only public reception takes place at Spring Street Studios. |
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Alley Theatre: "The Elephant Man" Alley Theatre actors Jay Sullivan and Elizabeth Bunch discuss The Elephant Man, Bernard Pomerance’s play about John Merrick, the horribly disfigured man who went from sideshow freak to the toast of society in Victorian-Era London. |
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"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" Artistic director Michael J. Ross and actor Marco Camacho chat about MJR Theatricals’ rendition of the Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. |
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Houston playwright Thomas Meloncon discusses his nostalgic musical-drama Where Were You in '65?, in which a young African-American man from the 21st century is sent back in time in order to gain an understanding of the Civil Rights Era. |
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Opera in the Heights: "Falstaff" Artistic director Enrique Carreón-Robledo previews Opera in the Heights’ new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s rollicking Shakespearean comedy Falstaff. |
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