All Jazzed Up
Even as they have decided to cancel this year’s Jazz Under the Stars outdoor series, sickness Dallas Museum...
Music
Cultural Warrior: Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard is the engine behind such ground-breaking HGOco/Houston Grand Opera programs such as Song of Houston and Home and Place. She also is the lead on numerous other projects that bring HGO into Houston’s multi-cultural communities in a way that sets the standard for [...]
Local Lights
Three Houston Artists Put Houston on the Map None of them are from Texas, but as the saying goes, “they got here as fast as they could”. Once they arrived in the Bayou City, they found a thriving arts community. “People in Houston have an ownership of their arts organizations [...]
Shifting Keys
A Classical DJ Goes Undercover The line at the East Gate of the Free Press Summer Fest 2012...
Remarks
This month the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is hosting the 67th National Conference of the League of American Orchestras, our industry’s “go-to” event. Nearly 1000 managers, trustees, musicians, and volunteers from our 850 member orchestras will gather at Meyerson Symphony Center to celebrate the DSO’s brilliant music making under music director [...]
Texas Piano Festival Highlights Schubert
Tamás Ungár is a man on a mission. The Texas Christian University professor is adamant that TCU be...
Just One of Those Things
It proved to be difficult to interview Michael Feinstein, songster extraordinaire, because of his hectic timetable. A number...
Review: The Bad Plus On Sacred Ground
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 [...]
Build it and they will come
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 [...]
Review: The Rumi Concert
The Rumi-atics came out in full force to the Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater at the Asia Society Texas Center on May 22 to see the great sage and Rumi translator and scholar Coleman Barks. If anyone can bring the 13th [...]
Review: Don Carlos
What does a choir of red crosses, pyrotechnics, and a wooden cart carrying chained heretics make? In Houston Grand Opera’s version of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos, it’s the turning point from a mediocre opera to a memorable one. Don [...]