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Alexandra Doyle

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Shanghai Quartet with Wu Man

By Alexandra Doyle
Apr 16, 2015

Wu Man, one of the foremost pipa players in the world, has recently been working closely with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road project. Today she’ll appear with the Shanghai Quartet in a concert mixing modern classical and ancient stringed instruments. “Whenever you add an instrument to a string quartet, it changes...
Der fliegende Holländer

By Alexandra Doyle
Mar 26, 2015

Wagner probably never imagined the implications of technology for his concept of gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork. The height of this was opera, which incorporates music, visual art, costuming, acting and more. Now the cinema is part of that idea as Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer comes to the River Oaks Theatre...
Air Sex Championships

By Alexandra Doyle
Mar 26, 2015

A new hobby is sweeping the nation — it’s part talent contest, part miming, part comedy show and part pornography. Yes, you read that right. Air sex contests are captivating audiences across the country, and Houston’s Annual Air Sex Championships are coming up soon. Brock Laborde, a producer and judge...
Mexican Kaleidoscope

By Alexandra Doyle
Mar 19, 2015

Classical music is so focused on the idea of Western art forms that music from other parts of the world is often neglected, even New World colonies of Western nations. In fact, Mexican composers produced many Baroque works during the 18th century. The Apollo Chamber Players will present Mexican Kaleidoscope,a...
Houston Symphony: Copland and Dvorák

By Alexandra Doyle
Mar 12, 2015

Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst makes his Houston Symphony debut with Copland and Dvorák, a program that features Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 7. Also on the program are Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 1 and Goran Fröst’s (Martin’s brother) Klezmer Dances for Clarinet and Strings. Copland and Dvorák...
Houston Symphony: Blockbuster Film Scores

By Alexandra Doyle
Mar 5, 2015

Here’s a little music trivia: Shostakovitch and Prokofiev, both hugely influential composers, were unabashedly successful with music for the cinema. The Houston Symphony’s Blockbuster Film Scores concert showcases some of the incredible music that’s been heard in films over the past 30 years. Michael Krajewski, principal POPS conductor, leads the...
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra: Six Degrees of Tolstoy

By Alexandra Doyle
Feb 19, 2015

Here’s a complicated lineage — a Beethoven sonata that inspired a Tolstoy novel that inspired a string quartet. Is there a recognizable relationship between the sonata and the string quartet? River Oaks Chamber Orchestra lets you answer that question for yourself at Six Degrees of Tolstoy, an unusual performance that...
Graf Conducts Schumann

By Alexandra Doyle
Feb 19, 2015

Hans Graf, Houston Symphony conductor laureate, embraces the wide variety of classical music. “If you are Russian, you shouldn’t only play Tchaikovsky’s music,” Graf said. “The world is much too international for that.” Former music director Graf returns to Houston for a night of German and French works, including Hindemith’s...
The Speckled Band

By Alexandra Doyle
Feb 5, 2015

Classical Theatre Company spares its audience the usual Sherlock Holmes clichés in its reboot of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. (There’s no “Elementary, my dear Watson,” for example.) Doyle’s original short story, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, centers on Helen Stoner and...
Jason Moran

By Alexandra Doyle
Feb 5, 2015

Pianist Jason Moran grew up listening to hip-hop. One day, he heard Thelonious Monk’s “’Round Midnight,” and a jazz lover/artist was born. He’s an acclaimed pianist and composer, his work most recently being heard on the soundtrack of the new civil rights flick Selma. Moran hails from Houston’s Third Ward...
Amadeus Leopold

By Alexandra Doyle
Jan 22, 2015

Violinist Amadéus Leopold isn’t what you could call an ordinary-looking classical musician. Portraits often show him wearing a tuxedo and holding his violin (nothing unusual there). It’s his tall Mohawk, heavy eye shadow, sunglasses and an assortment of steampunk-style accents that veer from the usual symphony member look. Leopold says...
Hotel Volkswagen

By Alexandra Doyle
Jan 22, 2015

Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company unveils a Texas premiere this month with a staged reading of Jón Gnarr’s Hotel Volkswagen. The quirky story of a father and son who, after encountering car trouble, check into the hotel and spend some time with its unusual guests, the comedy features many characters who...
Beer & Brass

By Alexandra Doyle
Jan 8, 2015

“Every brass player loves beer,” Alecia Lawyer tells us. We don’t have any scientific proof of that, but we’re willing to take Lawyer, founder and artistic director of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, at her word. The group’s annual Beer & Brass event, held at Saint Arnold Brewing Company, will...
East & West Transcended

By Alexandra Doyle
Jan 8, 2015

The Apollo Chamber Players, winners of a 2014 Houston Press Masterminds Award, present “East and West Transcended.” The concert showcases the French Impressionist movement and the reaction it sparked in Japanese music. “One of the ideas we wish to explore in this program is how composers from different countries —...

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