Arts and Culture Texas magazine

From punk rockers to presidents: The rebels at ROCO announce new season

Steven Brown·May 31, 2017

The conductor nearly chickened out. Planning the concert that will open the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra’s 2017-18 season, Vladimir Yampolsky suggested a rarity: the Symphony No. 2 by Kurt Weill of Threepenny Opera fame. Then he wavered.

Jazz on/in/and Film at the MFAH

Joseph Wozny·May 16, 2017

In a year, a very small number of “jazz films” can or will be released — there’s just (unfortunately) not that many to be made. So, during Jazz on Film, a yearly festival curated by Peter Lucas, now in its fifth year, there are some repetitions from previous years.

Film Houston Music

On Key and Offbeat: Austin’s Lone-Star Station KMFA Turns 50

Claire Christine Spera·May 11, 2017

When it comes to Austin’s 50-year-old radio station, KMFA Classical 89.5, it’s almost better defined by what it isn’t than what it is.

Austin Music

Victoria Bach Festival: A New Era

Sherry Cheng·May 11, 2017

For one week each June, the picturesque South Texas city of Victoria, population 65,000, rolls out its red carpet and welcomes some of the finest professional musicians from around the country to take part in the Victoria Bach Festival (VBF).

Music South Texas

Texas Early Music Project Bridges Past and Present

Sherry Cheng·April 26, 2017

Iberian monophony, Notre Dame polyphony, Medieval mystery plays, Renaissance madrigals, Baroque operas, French virelai, Spanish villancico, Italian frottola, Scottish ballades, Sephardic love songs, and much more—early music encompasses a dazzling wealth of forms and styles.

Austin Music

Soli Chamber Ensemble Concludes Season Under the Ligurian Sun

Steven Brown·April 24, 2017

The shift may not have been conscious, violinist Ertan Torgul says, but he sees it clearly. After 20-plus years of performing new music, San Antonio's Soli Chamber Ensemble is gravitating toward composers who bridge genres —mixing the classical tradition with jazz, rock or whatever else resonates with them. To them, music is music.

Music San Antonio

Fire & Water: HGO Triumphs with Götterdämmerung

Sherry Cheng·April 24, 2017

Houston Grand Opera has done it! The realization of Richard Wagner's epic Ring Cycle, the single most challenging and monumental artistic undertaking in the opera company's history, culminated with full force in the cathartic fourth and final installment Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods).

Houston Music

Houston Welcomes New Music Ensemble Loop38

Steven Brown·April 14, 2017

Traditional tunes, rhythms and harmonies played no role. Instead, the chamber ensemble offered up an ever-shifting soundscape of shimmers, glimmers, rustlings and wisps —Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s salute to the Northern Lights.

Houston Music

Nameless Sound Brings Amina Claudine Myers to Houston

Joseph Wozny·April 11, 2017

Usually, when we introduce an artist in a piece of writing, we write “singer” or “composer” and then their name, but the list of things Amina Claudine Myers does and has done is too extensive to be filed under one, two, or even three labels.

Music

Pop Culture Invasion: ROCOmoji for the Win

Sherry Cheng·April 6, 2017

Savvy concert goers can count on ROCO (River Oaks Chamber Orchestra) to keep up with current cultural trends.

Houston Music

Sing Me Another: Gabriel Kahane at Aperio

Sherry Cheng·April 3, 2017

Gabriel Kahane has a lot to say.

Houston Music

Color into Sound: Loop38 at Turrell Skyspace

Sherry Cheng·March 27, 2017

When soft twilight yields to clear night, the Turrell Skyspace at Rice University is illuminated with a continuous diffusion of colors that ebb and flow around the central opening to the darkening sky.

Houston Music Visual Art

Visual Art

Diving Into Hidden Universes: Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within at the MFAH

An Enigmatic Woman: Marisol’s Big Works Get an Even Bigger Retrospective at Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas artist Du Chau Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Women First: Texas Ballet Theater Highlights Six Outstanding Female Choreographers

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Revealing Repertoire: Houston Ballet’s Triple Bill Tells a Company’s Story

Music

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

Spreading the Classical Music Word: San Antonio’s Agarita Thinks Beyond the Concert Hall

Theater

Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Building a Community: D. Wambui Richardson Invites Audiences to Become Part of Jubilee Theatre’s Family

Music

From punk rockers to presidents: The rebels at ROCO announce new season

Jazz on/in/and Film at the MFAH

On Key and Offbeat: Austin’s Lone-Star Station KMFA Turns 50

Victoria Bach Festival: A New Era

Texas Early Music Project Bridges Past and Present

Soli Chamber Ensemble Concludes Season Under the Ligurian Sun

Fire & Water: HGO Triumphs with Götterdämmerung

Houston Welcomes New Music Ensemble Loop38

Nameless Sound Brings Amina Claudine Myers to Houston

Pop Culture Invasion: ROCOmoji for the Win

Sing Me Another: Gabriel Kahane at Aperio

Color into Sound: Loop38 at Turrell Skyspace