When the Dallas City Performance Hall (now Moody Performance Hall) opened its doors to the public in 2012, it also opened the doors of opportunity to a number of mid-sized arts groups in need of a right-sized venue.
And so begins the story of the Dallas Chamber Symphony....
“She played with a fine fury all evening, and her bow was a rod and a staff for the comfort of Nespoli,” lauded music critic Hubert Roussel, writing for the Houston Gargoyle....
Imagine listening to Liszt in your living room. Whether it’s Mozart or Brahms or more contemporary offerings, house concerts have become so popular in Texas that you can find one happening most weekends throughout the state....
When Matthew Dirst was a graduate student in France, a splashy revival of a long-neglected 17th-century opera galvanized his love of baroque music. ...
A pair of excellent new music concerts on the Houston calendar this month illuminated the distinct yet overlapping currents that shape the body of contemporary music....
Avant Chamber Ballet opens its seventh season with an ambitious collaboration with the Verdigris Ensemble for a stunning production of The Little Match Girl Passion, David Lang’s haunting choral adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, “The Little Match Girl.”...
The Dallas Opera's production of The Flying Dutchman, beautifully conducted by Emmanuel Villaume and under the direction of chorus master Alexander Rom and stage director Christopher Alden, takes 1930s-era Germany as its visual and conceptual stage....
