From Comedy to Tragedy: Expect Variety at Fort Worth Opera’s 2020 Festival
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.
Amy Bishop
Listen, Touch and Wander: DMA’s speechless: different by design
Think back to your first visit to an art museum as a child. Before entering, it’s likely that the first words out of the mouth of your chaperone were, “Don’t touch anything.”
Music for All: Fort Worth Opera’s Relaxed Performances
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.
Local Excellence: A New Chapter for Fine Arts Chamber Players
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.
Ahead of the Curve: Dallas Opera and Dallas Symphony Orchestra Focus on Women
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.
Rescue Music: DSO Oboist Erin Hannigan’s Artists for Animals
The audience members at the Meyerson Symphony Center had no idea what an adventure the oboist onstage had on her way in to work that night.
Dallas Chamber Symphony Finds its Niche
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.
Choral Music for Modern Audiences: Verdigris Offers a New Perspective in Dallas
It’s likely that no one in the seats of the UT Arlington Planetarium had ever been to a choral concert like this one.
UNT Connections: Lumedia Musicworks and Das Blümelein Project Brighten DFW’s Musicscape
Those familiar with the University of North Texas School of Music know that Denton is a hotbed of musical talent that expands not just into the Dallas-Fort Worth region, but to every part of the world.
Brahms at the Bar: Dallas’s Open Classical Re-frames Music Experience
It’s a Tuesday night at Buzzbrews Kitchen in Dallas’ Uptown neighborhood, where tattooed waitresses with Bettie Page-inspired hairstyles are ferrying plates of hot pancakes and bacon to their tables.
Eric Whitacre at Dallas Winds
Eric Whitacre is proof that there are advantages to breaking some rules – his path to becoming one of the most venerable choral composers has been anything but routine.