Music
YouTube Superstars Play Dallas
With YouTube announcing this week they are now have 1 billion unique monthly users, generic here’s a story...
Review: Nameless Sound
On Wednesday March 6th, Nameless Sound presented cellist Tristan Honsinger at Spring Street’s Studio 101. Nameless Sound brings creative music performers from all over the world to play in Houston, and provide educational workshops to students in underserved communities all over Houston. I first encountered Honsinger in the wild and wonderful [...]
Get Looped
A 4,000 mile journey, a baby-smuggling clown and a post-modern Medea: Out of the Loop returns to Addison...
Who Will Win at Cliburn?
The Cliburn announces today the 30 competitors selected to participate in the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition,...
Sixteen Strings
Anatomy of a String Quartet Playing in a string quartet is probably about as difficult as performing neurosurgery....
Newer Works Highlight Opera Season
The Dallas Opera is returning to four mainstage productions for the company’s 2013-2014 season in the Margot and...
Review: Bon Appétit!
A presentation of Dallas Opera at the Dallas Farmer’s Market Demonstration Kitchen February 9, cialis 2013 At the...
Cupid Unites Poetry and Music
Orchestra of New Spain is planning a special Valentine’s concert that will transport audiences to the romantic period...
The Con is On
The first national tour of Catch Me If You Can lands in Fair Park February 12. This swanky new musical about contemporary con man Frank Abagnale, Jr. is the 2013 season opener for the Dallas Summer Musicals. Based on the 2002 Steven Spielberg film, the songwriting duo Marc Shaiman [...]
Review: Verdi’s Macbeth
Heavy is the head that wears the crown—especially when you murdered your predecessor. Set in post-apocalyptic Scotland, Opera in the Heights’ production of Verdi’s Macbeth captures something new in Shakespeare’s classic from neon purple, lime, and yellow-wigged witches to shopping carts and barbed wire. Pulled off with passion, Macbeth [...]
Honeymoons on The Bayou
Conducting affairs with HTown’s Orchestras It’s finally official: After a three year search and on the eve of its Centennial Season, the Houston Symphony has named 35-year old conductor Adrés Orozco-Estrada as its next Music Director. Born in Columbia and trained in Vienna, Orozoco-Estrada hasn’t yet conducted most of the world’s [...]