Music
A Season for Singing Together: Houston Chamber Choir Launches New Season on the Digital Stage
For the Houston Chamber Choir (HCC), and the choral community at large, it has been an exceptionally challenging year.
Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital
Radical reinvention: That’s what Meg Booth, chief executive officer for Society for the Performing Arts, sees in this time when artists and audiences must stay separate to stay safe.
Open Air Performance in Texas
As a pandemic spring spun into summer, it seemed all the performing arts world became a virtual stage and all the men and women remote players.
Afton Battle Takes the Lead at Fort Worth Opera
Battle’s move to the company completes a journey--a more circuitous one than she imagined--that began that night at La Traviata.
Ars Lyrica’s Retooled Season Offers Fresh Musical Experiences
The coronavirus’ upheaval forced Ars Lyrica Houston to throw out most of its plans for this season--including its cherished project for its second fully staged opera.
A Love Letter to the Audience: Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance
Tarra Gaines on her Digital Diet and Missing Live Performance
A Splash of Color and Light: ROCO Paints a New Landscape
I was especially thrilled to be the first person to receive a print copy of River Oaks Chamber Orchestra’s Season 16 brochure, fresh off the press.
Dallas Opera Goes Digital with the TDO Network
The Dallas Opera had just begun rehearsals for a landmark event: the company’s first production in more than 30 years of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo, a drama whose challenges tower nearly as high as its musical splendors.
From Faraway Lands to the Apocalypse, Soluna Festival Is All About Adventure
The Dallas Symphony’s 2020 Soluna festival will encompass all that and more. The annual music and arts showcase, opening April 3, will feature Dallas artists plus globe-trotting guests; traditional concerts and multimedia immersions; a live incarnation of an acclaimed rock ’n’ roll album as well as a documentary film whose subjects perform in person in front of it.
Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 2020
Artists grappling with the political has been the norm for thousands of years, but when art and social-political questioning merge at an interdisciplinary performance festival like Austin’s Fusebox Festival 2020 (April 15-19), the results can sometimes expand artistic boundaries.