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> On Friday, we have two studio performances, previewing Bayou Bend's July 4th Celebration. The Paragon Brass Ensemble treats us to American Marches & Brass Band Music, and The Blue Gnus loosen things up with home-grown Jazz of the '20s & '30s! Bayou Bend July 4th Celebration
An afternoon of historical performers, crafts, activities, music & refreshments
Saturday, July 4, 1 – 5pm
*2:30pm: Paragon Brass Ensemble
*4pm: The Blue Gnus
Bayou Bend Collection & Gardens
1 Westcott Street, Houston, TX
713.639.7750
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| > On Thursday, actors from the Ensemble Theatre perform songs from the Tony Award-wining musical The Wiz. We preview the final all-American program by the Texas Music Festival Orchestra. And we view an installation of Indonesian batik textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. 2009 Texas Music Festival, June 9 - July 3
Symphony Orchestra – Grand Finale Music of Bernstein, Barber & Theofanidis
Barry Jekowski, conductor
Elmar Oliveira, violin
Friday, July 3, 7:30pm
Moores Opera House
University of Houston
The Wiz
Performances through July 26
Ensemble Theatre
3535 Main, Houston, TX
713.520.0055
WWW.ENSEMBLEHOUSTON.COM The Ann Dunham Collection of Batik: Indonesian Identity & Artistic Tradition
On view July 2 - 5
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX
713.639.7300
WWW.MFAH.ORG **Admission is free Sunday, July 5, as part of Target Free First Sundays** |
The Front Row, Thursday, 07/02/2009 July 2, 2009 Renowned concert violinist Elmar Oliveira, innovative conductor Barry Jekowsky and award-winning composer Christopher Theofanidis, chat with KUHF's Chris Johnson about the final concert of the 2009 Texas Music Festival at the University of Houston! The all-American program features Mr. Oliveira as soloist in Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto … and the Texas Première of a new Symphony by Mister Theofanidis, co-commissioned by the Festival... > click here for more The Front Row, Wednesday, 07/01/2009  July 1, 2009 Today, we focus our attention on the Lone Star State’s most highly-regarded summer training camp for pre-professional musicians, the International Festival-Institute at Round Top. We chat with the bright, young Canadian conductor, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, who has returned to central Texas to conduct this Saturday’s orchestral concert on Festival Hill, a pairing of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra … > click here for more The Front Row, Tuesday, 06/30/2009  June 30, 2009 Consider this: What if the women of the Salem witchcraft trials really were witches? What if the magic were real? Former Houstonian and author Katherine Howe, whose own ancestors were tried in Salem in 1692, built her debut novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, around those questions. Ms. Howe talks with us about her new thriller, in advance of her in-store appearance this evening at the Blue Willow Bookshop... > click here for more The Front Row, Monday, 06/29/2009  June 29, 2009 We have two studio performances on today’s show – both of them related to this year’s Texas Music Festival at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music. Guitarists Jonathan Dotson and Austin Moorhead are faculty-artists at this year’s “Classical Minds” Guitar Institute and then seven of the veteran musicians who are coaching the young artists enrolled in this summer’s TMF orchestral program play portions of Beethoven’s Septet for Winds and Strings... > click here for more The Front Row, Friday, 06/26/2009  June 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... > click here for more The Front Row, Thursday, 06/25/2009  June 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… > click here for more The Front Row, Wednesday, 6/24/2009  , We chat with UH Piano Professor Nancy Weems, and two of her students from the Texas Music Festival Piano Institute perform for us! Plus, maestro Christoph Campestrini talks about the music of Brahms & Mahler, which he conducts at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top. > click here for more The Front Row, Tuesday, 6/23/2009  , We meet cellist Hee-Young Lim, Silver Medalist of the 2009 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition, and hear her prize-winning performance! Plus, we tour Literally Figurative, a whimsical exhibit at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. > click here for more > click for 100 past stories |
Camping out in the Geary Performance Studio ....
... warming up and waiting for showtime!
The clock says 12:16pm. The live interview has begun!
All smiles after a great studio session ... 
The rehearsing never ends!
Following his Houston stint, Salim Gauwloos auditioned for Madonna in NYC. "Actually the sexiest thing in Madonna's Blonde Ambition Tour may well be the Belgian dancer Slam, the audience has special eyes for him."- Liz Smith for the Daily News
After working with pop icons such as Aretha Franklin, George Michael & Elton John, Salim returned to his classical roots, and now he's choreographed a new dance piece for Houston MET -- a contemporary ballet inspired by the idea of a world of perfect harmony.
ELEVATED makes its World Premiere on Houston MET's Summer Sampler Program at Miller Outdoor Theatre on Friday, June 12, 8:30pm (FREE). For more on Salim, including photos from his Vogue-ing days, check out his website and his June 10th TFR interview. [Rehearsal photos by Facundo Gabba]
SECOND PRIZE: Hee-Young Lim, cello
FOURTH PRIZE: Can Gao, violinTune into "The Front Row" in the coming weeks to hear interviews with the artists and re-broadcasts of their winning performances!
[Biographical details courtesy of the Houston Symphony. Awards announced on June 6, 2009 following the Competition's Final Round]
We have a performance from soprano-pianist Lama Devries and pianist Mariam Haddad featuring selections from their upcoming concert Salon a la Francaise in parntership with the French-American Chamber of Commerce taking place this Saturday at Ovations in the Rice Village. Works include pieces from Debussy, Faure, and De Falla. Also, the Houston area gears up for the seventh annual Big Range Dance Festival kicking off this weekend and continuing for two more weekends at Barnevard Theater. Tradition comes to Houston through Broadway Across America's production of Fiddler on the Roof, featuring Actor/Singer Topel. We chat with him about his role in this beloved Broadway musical.
Restoration Chamber Music previews their upcoming concert Garten Verein: Legacy of Friendship featuring the works of Brahms and Strauss. Also, we chat with choreographer Christopher Wheeldon about his piece entitled Of An Era being featured by Houston Ballet (photo: www.houstonballet.org). We round out the show with a bit of the theater, featuring a conversation with Classical Theatre Company about their latest production of Sophocles Antigone.
