Even after Marian Anderson won international acclaim as a singer, she felt the sting of racial discrimination. She fought back with unique weapons: her deep river of a contralto voice and her unshakably dignified bearing....
The Orchestra of New Spain specializes in reviving long-lost music. Founder Grover Wilkins and his ensemble have freed a string of neglected Spanish-baroque works from the prison of the library shelves, and on Feb. 21 and 22, the group will give a belated U.S. premiere to a 300-year-old tale of passion among gods and mortals....
San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum operated for decades with a major gap in its holdings. “When you think of all 20th-century art, the U.S. made two huge contributions to the canon,” says Lyle W. Williams, the McNay’s curator of prints and drawings....
Dallas’s Avant Chamber Ballet is taking the plunge: The seven-year-old company unveils its first staging of The Nutcracker, complete with a live orchestra, on Dec. 20....
An orchestral score for a ballet wouldn’t ordinarily pop up in an art museum’s storage room. But the one in San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, a score of Erik Satie’s surrealist Parade, was no ordinary example....
Anthony Brandt urges his composition students at Rice University to keep an open mind about the musical styles that influence them. “I often say, ‘Don’t put a fence around yourself. Feel the joy of having an open field around you, and discover what you might love that you didn’t know you would,’” he explains....
When Seth Knopp plans out the Soundings new-music series for Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center, he likes to leave audiences free to spot resonances and parallels among each season’s concerts....
A 50th anniversary deserves a celebration. But what kind? Houston Ballet’s leaders looked back across the company’s history, starting before the 1969 debut of the company as we know it today. ...
