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....
As the United States closed its skies on September 11, 2001, thousands of plane passengers found themselves in midair over the Atlantic with only one place to land—the airport near the small town of Gander, Newfoundland....
Nancy Wozny: Pack a lunch, Lady T, we have a year and a decade to discuss. Let’s not be so top ten-ish, but think categorically. I always find what we are still talking about is the most revealing....
Six-year-old Jan Lucca’s facial expressions mirror the activity in front of him: Staring intently at the stage, his eyes widen at exciting moments. He clasps his hands together against his chest during the suspenseful ones. He swings his legs from the chair and his mom smiles from the seat next to him. It’s his first opera....
From Shakespeare to SciFi, actors often return to a beloved character to find new life in the role. Yet, very few of these revisits hold such a unique offstage story like acclaimed international film, television and stage actor Sasson Gabay....
Coming of Broadway age in the shadow of the Hamilton juggernaut, Dear Evan Hansen, the seemingly unassuming musical about an unpopular high school kid with social anxiety, managed to turn its misfit story into a multiple Tony® Award winner....
Aperio opened its 2019-2020 season in September riding the Onda Nueva (New Wave), relishing the characteristic blurring of boundaries that makes music from Latin America so rich and vital....
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....
