Music | Arts & Culture Texas

From Faraway Lands to the Apocalypse, Soluna Festival Is All About Adventure

Steven BrownMarch 14, 2020

The Dallas Symphony’s 2020 Soluna festival will encompass all that and more. The annual music and arts showcase, opening April 3, will feature Dallas artists plus globe-trotting guests; traditional concerts and multimedia immersions; a live incarnation of an acclaimed rock ’n’ roll album as well as a documentary film whose subjects perform in person in front of it....

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Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 2020

Tarra GainesMarch 11, 2020

Artists grappling with the political has been the norm for thousands of years, but when art and social-political questioning merge at an interdisciplinary performance festival like Austin’s Fusebox Festival 2020 (April 15-19), the results can sometimes expand artistic boundaries....

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Our Stories Onstage: How Dallas grew one of the nation’s biggest LGBTQ theater companies

Lindsey WilsonMarch 11, 2020

Nearly 20 years ago, Craig Lynch and Jeff Rane took a look around Dallas and noticed a gap. Despite having the sixth-biggest population of LGBTQ people in the nation and a reputation as one of the country’s most gay-friendly cities, no theater company in Dallas was regularly producing theater that told this community’s stories....

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From Comedy to Tragedy: Expect Variety at Fort Worth Opera’s 2020 Festival

Amy BishopMarch 11, 2020

Attention, opera-goers: If you’ve been looking for a chance to change the mind of “that one friend” who swears they don’t like opera, this could be the time....

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It Happened in Texas: San Antonio Collector/Visionary Robert. L. B. Tobin at the McNay

Steven BrownMarch 5, 2020

Standing six-foot-six, sporting a luxuriant silver mane and beard, decked out on formal occasions in flamboyant capes, he turned heads from Texas to New York....

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Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Dallas Opera Collaborate for ‘Pulcinella’

Manuel MendozaFebruary 18, 2020

Pulcinella is an odd duck of a ballet....

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Life Is a Cabaret: The Legacy of Mama’s Party in Dallas-Fort Worth

Lindsey WilsonFebruary 13, 2020

Amy Stevenson, a performer and educator who founded and hosts a weekly cabaret called Mama’s Party, has been more than good to Dallas-Fort Worth for the last 14 years....

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Houston Symphony’s New Season Highlights Women Violinists, Beethoven and a partnership with Perlman

Steven BrownFebruary 13, 2020

The Houston Symphony will be one of many orchestras that mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. But how many groups will also spend part of next season celebrating women who play the violin?...

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Texas Studio: Catherine Turocy

Manuel MendozaJanuary 17, 2020

Search for information on baroque dance and it won’t be long before you come across the name Catherine Turocy....

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In HGO’s Marian Anderson Opera, a Legendary Voice Still Resonates

Steven BrownJanuary 17, 2020

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....

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Orchestra of New Spain Conquers Another Zarzuela

Steven BrownJanuary 17, 2020

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....

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Ensemble Storytelling: Come From Away Comes to Texas

Tarra GainesJanuary 10, 2020

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....

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