Leading Voices
The Austin-based chorus known as Conspirare is quite simply one of the best vocal ensembles of its kind in the country.
Music
Peter Brötzmann and Keiji Haino
A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend of mine who is a gifted performer of so-called free improvisation.
Music to Honor a President
This month across Texas, performing arts organizations are offering new works and classic favorites to commemorate the 50th anniversary of JFK assassination, and celebrate the life of the young president from Massachusetts who so captivated the country.
Collaborating in Time
By now, downtown denizens may have noticed that the Clock Tower at Market Square looks and sounds completely different. Jo Ann Fleischhauer has transformed the historic landmark, known as the Louis and Annie Friedman Clock Tower
Midori Plays Mendelssohn
As the Houston Symphony proudly marches into its Centennial season, feting past and future music directors alongside a parade of celebrity soloists, there's a sense that something special is happening.
On Gratitude, Texas & More
Liam Bonner Returns to HGO IMAGE: Opera singer Liam Bonner. Photo by Melissa Fitzgerald. Baritone Liam Bonner is...
Opera Season Opens Across Texas
Texas opera fans need to get out their castanets and start practicing the seguidilla.
Alive & Well
It’s a new era for the Houston Symphony. When Maestro Andrés Orozoco-Estrada mounts the podium this month to conduct a program featuring music by Sergei Rachmaninov,
Prone to Roam
Artists are leaving Texas, and for good reason. Touring equals two important things for the state's performing artists: unprecedented exposure and a chance to get off the island. An invitation to perform on the road carries with it a certain cachet, elevating an artist’s hometown reputation and expectations.
Walker Lukens, Coming and Going
IMAGE: Walker Lukens. Photo by Lobo Sucio Creative. Walker Lukens is a Houston-born singer-songwriter living in Austin after...
MIRÓ QUARTET: A Texas Beethoven Cycle & More
When violinist William Fedkenheuer steps onto the stage this month with his colleagues in the Austin-based Miró Quartet for a series of six concerts at the Butler School of Music at UT-Austin (Sept. 6-8 & 27-29), he will achieve a distinction that few other professionals can claim. He will be one of the few living violinists who have performed all sixteen of Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets for two violins, viola and cello as both a first and second violinist.
Open Season
Some people say ideas are a dime a dozen.
The Idea Fund says they are $3,500 each and, with help from a special initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, it is putting that money directly into the hands of Texas artists. As a result, some of the state's most provocative or otherwise unexpected imaginings are being made real.