Review: Roscoe Mitchell with Nameless Sound
On March 29th, Roscoe Mitchell’s Houston residency with Nameless Sound came to a joyous end at the Eldorado...
Music
Review: Il trovatore
There are two sides to every story, but it’s easy to pick a favorite when the fight is between a sniveling Count and a fiery gypsy. Verdi’s ever-popular Il trovatore, Houston Grand Opera’s last production of the season, shows why revenge is something to savor. First performed in Rome in 1853, the music in this opera is structured very differently from Wagner’s [...]
Review: Falstaff
Send two identical love letters to two married women, and even a lovable scoundrel deserves to be dumped in the brook with the dirty laundry. There may be no honest, civil or sober men in Verdi’s Falstaff, but it makes for a hilarious opera, and Opera in the Heights’ production had the audience [...]
Pipe Dreams
Cameron Carpenter on the future of the Organ Virtuoso composer-performer Cameron Carpenter, one of the most accomplished organists...
One Night Stand
“Pizzicato Porno,” a free one-night-only performance by artist/dancer Danielle Georgiou and actor/musician Justin Locklear will be presented this Sunday, April 7, by Ro2. This original work will feature video, live music, and dance. The 7:00pm performance will be followed by a reception at Ro2 Art’s Downtown Projects gallery [...]
Puttin’ on the Jazz
“Dallas doesn’t have a jazz scene.” Oh, bite me. Jazz lovers can enjoy a vigorous jam hosted by...
Mr. Jazz Man
There are jazz trumpeters, buy jazz guitarists, unhealthy jazz pianists and so on, buy and jazz arrangers, composers...
Orchestrating Change
Catching up with Mercury’s Antoine Plante It’s been almost a year since we sat down with Mercury’s artistic...
Marching Orders
UH Mitchell Center Commissions Experimental Music Houston, get ready: A student marching band turned experimental musical cadre is poised to create free-form, funky, soulful, danceable rhythms at downtown’s Discovery Green later this month. This parade-gone-wild is the creation of world-renowned musician and composer Daniel [...]
Sister Act
The Ahn Trio brings their unique take on classical music to Dallas. A piano, viagra a cello, here...