Arts & Culture Texas

Listening to the Individual: Soundings New Music at the Nasher

Steven Brown·September 16, 2019

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.

Art Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Local Excellence: A New Chapter for Fine Arts Chamber Players

Amy Bishop·September 10, 2019

Ever since she can remember, Emily Levin has loved putting stuff together: Crossword puzzles, planning vacations, hosting murder mystery parties—being an organizer is sort of her thing.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Ahead of the Curve: Dallas Opera and Dallas Symphony Orchestra Focus on Women

Amy Bishop·September 10, 2019

This fall, The Dallas Opera launches its fifth residency of the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors Oct. 27-Nov. 9—designed to help female opera conductors take their careers to the next level.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Going Up: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project keeps rising in its fifth year

Lindsey Wilson·September 10, 2019

If you’re wondering how the Dallas performing arts scene has changed over the past five years, just look at the Elevator Project.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Music Theater

Ars Lyrica’s Sumptuous Season

Steven Brown·August 20, 2019

After staging its first full-length opera last season, Houston’s Ars Lyrica is giving itself a year’s break before it presents the second.

Houston Music

Texas Lens: The Most Important Work We Do—Scenes from I Am My Future

Sherry Cheng·July 29, 2019

Sometimes the most meaningful musical experience transpires in the most unexpected place.

Features Houston Music Texas Lens

Da Camera’s Big, Varied Season

Steven Brown·June 17, 2019

Houston’s Da Camera bills itself as a presenter of chamber music and jazz, but that hardly gives you the whole picture.

Houston Music

Apollo Chamber Players Concludes 20×2020

Steven Brown·May 15, 2019

The project could hardly have a catchier title: 20x2020. But the Apollo Chamber Players faced the challenge of bringing it off. With only six years to go, could the group choose and commission 20 composers to create works it could premiere by 2020?

Houston Music

Texas Music Festival Turns 30

Sherry Cheng·May 9, 2019

When Immanuel and Helen Olshan founded the Texas Music Festival (TMF) 30 years ago at the University of Houston, they had their eyes on the future.

Music

Artistic Partners, New Works, and Historic Musical Moments: Houston’s ROCO at 15

Steven Brown·April 30, 2019

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Houston’s River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) to anoint a conductor as its music director. Being player-driven is in ROCO’s DNA.

Houston Music

Artful Summer Travels: Santa Fe Opera & Crested Butte Arts Festival

Steven Brown·April 15, 2019

Once Texas’ summer torpor hits, escaping the heat may be priority No. 1. If you’re looking for a reason to flee to a higher, cooler altitude, Santa Fe Opera (June 28-Aug. 24) offers a world premiere, the company’s first staging of a 20th-century classic, and new productions of two perennial favorites.

Art Music

Dallas Opera’s Season of Celebration

Steven Brown·April 12, 2019

The Dallas Opera commemorates a handful of anniversaries next season, and the most notable involves one of your not-so-catchy numbers.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Art

Jenelle Esparza Weaves Ancestral History at Women & Their Work

Seriality, color, and time: Matthew Wong at DMA

Gordon Parks at the MFAH: Behind-the-lens insights into the mind of one of America’s most visionary photographers

Music

The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists

Kinetic Season 8: Distinct Voices, New Works, and Wild Soundscapes

Houston Chamber Choir Expands its Reach

Dance

Stir Your Heart Toward Change: Bruce Wood Dance Expands Its Reach

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

Avant Chamber Ballet’s 10th season celebrates women and whimsy

Theater

The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists

The difficult past and hopeful future of Latinx theater in Dallas

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

Film

Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real

It all Happens in Houston: Houston Cinema Arts Festival Returns

TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance

Books

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World

Sonia Sanchez Documentary Headlines REELpoetry

Music

Listening to the Individual: Soundings New Music at the Nasher

Local Excellence: A New Chapter for Fine Arts Chamber Players

Ahead of the Curve: Dallas Opera and Dallas Symphony Orchestra Focus on Women

Going Up: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project keeps rising in its fifth year

Ars Lyrica’s Sumptuous Season

Texas Lens: The Most Important Work We Do—Scenes from I Am My Future

Da Camera’s Big, Varied Season

Apollo Chamber Players Concludes 20×2020

Texas Music Festival Turns 30

Artistic Partners, New Works, and Historic Musical Moments: Houston’s ROCO at 15

Artful Summer Travels: Santa Fe Opera & Crested Butte Arts Festival

Dallas Opera’s Season of Celebration