Ready for the Classics: Avant Chamber Ballet Tackles ‘The Nutcracker’ and More
Dallas’s Avant Chamber Ballet is taking the plunge: The seven-year-old company unveils its first staging of The Nutcracker, complete with a live orchestra, on Dec. 20.
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McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts Gets a New Show and Curator
An orchestral score for a ballet wouldn’t ordinarily pop up in an art museum’s storage room. But the one in San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, a score of Erik Satie’s surrealist Parade, was no ordinary example.
Opening to Baroque Possibilities: Houston’s Bach Society for the Americas
The Bach Society Houston will perform a smattering of its namesake’s most popular music this season.
Musiqa’s Open Field Season
Anthony Brandt urges his composition students at Rice University to keep an open mind about the musical styles that influence them. “I often say, ‘Don’t put a fence around yourself. Feel the joy of having an open field around you, and discover what you might love that you didn’t know you would,’” he explains.
Listening to the Individual: Soundings New Music at the Nasher
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.
Expanded Missions: Dallas and Houston Holocaust Museums Open Spacious New Homes
Holocaust museums aren’t just about the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews. How could they be?
Ars Lyrica’s Sumptuous Season
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.
Signature Works and Milestones: Houston Ballet at 50
A 50th anniversary deserves a celebration. But what kind? Houston Ballet’s leaders looked back across the company’s history, starting before the 1969 debut of the company as we know it today.
Da Camera’s Big, Varied Season
Houston’s Da Camera bills itself as a presenter of chamber music and jazz, but that hardly gives you the whole picture.
Apollo Chamber Players Concludes 20×2020
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?
Children at Play: Gary Lee Price at Dallas Arboretum
Well-behaved visitors to the Dallas Arboretum wouldn’t dare. But people who are sculpted in bronze in can get away with a lot more, can’t they?
Artistic Partners, New Works, and Historic Musical Moments: Houston’s ROCO at 15
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.