Play On!
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra announced this week their 2013-2014 concert season, a musical exploration of classical favorites, new works, and intriguing symphonic selections from other cultures. Major highlights include Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, the Dvořák Violin Concerto, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 [...]
Brazilian Grooves
Grupo Corpo at Society for the Performing Arts [Reprinted from Dance Source Houston] Pulsing rhythms, a seamless, fluid movement language, and mesmerizing choreography that spreads out horizontally across the stage evoking the sea and the mountains characterize Grupo Corpo [...]
CTC Presents The Merchant of Venice
The Potent Force of Shakespeare’s Words Every year as part of the company’s Main Stage season Classical Theatre...
Stern Stuff
Architect Bill Stern Asked ‘What Kind of City This Was to Be’ – And Built Accordingly When I...
Who Will Win at Cliburn?
The Cliburn announces today the 30 competitors selected to participate in the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition,...
Review: Cocksucker Blues
Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues is anything but a traditional rock and roll documentary. Frank’s work has been archived...
Conversations in Movement
Lucinda Cobley and Teresa Chapman Team Up at Wade Wilson Art A casual chat between painter Lucinda Cobley and choreographer Teresa Chapman at a Galveston party prompted a collaboration, Shifting Spaces, an excerpt of which will be performed on March 28 at Wade Wilson [...]
Ceramics in Concert
Annual Conference Prepares to Cover Houston in All Things Clay Fresh on the heels of the NBA All-Star...
Bodies in Motion
CAMH’s Parallel Practices Spotlights Joan Jonas and Gina Pane Curator Dean Daderko muses that firsthand interaction with a human body may be something that people are missing today, adding that, in an age in which signing petitions online counts as a form of activism, people sometimes [...]
Buy Art! Yes, You!
Why We Should Take a Seattle Critic’s Manifesto to Heart In December, Seattle critic Jen Graves unleashed a startling manifesto titled Buy Art! If You Have Never Bought a Piece of Original Art, You Are Doing Life Wrong. It raised points most critics in most cities have heard in their [...]
Sixteen Strings
Anatomy of a String Quartet Playing in a string quartet is probably about as difficult as performing neurosurgery....
