Review: The Bad Plus On Sacred Ground

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May 5, 2012 Da Camera The Bad Plus’s interpretation of Stravinsky’s, The Rite of Spring, presented by Da Camera of Houston, begins with a hazy, ambient prerecorded auditory collage accompanied by foggy visual projections. It’s the typical postmodern art rock concert opening [...]
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Build it and they will come

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Texas Music Festival sets the standard for excellence Never underestimate the power of a cowboy conductor. That very image served as the poster for the first Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival (TMF), now in its 22nd year. “Actually, that poster is kind of iconic [...]
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Seeing Both Ways

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Lacy Johnson on Trespasses: A Memoir According to Lacy M. Johnson’s bio, she worked as “assistant-manager of a Wal-Mart Vision Center, sold steaks door-to-door [...]
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Little Big Shot

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The Micro-Cinemania of Aurora Picture Show Rewind the past 14 years, and you’ll see Aurora Picture Show – the little micro-cinema-that-could – reelin’ out some of the best moving image art and public programming in the Texas region [...]
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artiFACTS: June 2012

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has given the 2012 Meredith J. Long Core Program Award to Gabriel Martinez. The $10,000 prize, presented at the Glassell School of Art Benefit and Auction Friday, May 11, was inaugurated [...]
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Review: American Falls

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A century ago, armed with little more than secondary knowledge gleaned from travel guides and Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, Franz Kafka attempted to write an “American” novel. The manuscript shows its main character [...]
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