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Tango in a Small Room
Big TicketFor chamber music fans in general, this is a banner week, with the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth inaugurating its new season and the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio playing at the Kimbell (see Tuesday’s blurb).
Worldwide Abstracts
Big TicketAbstract art is to many minds American art, yet the Modern’s new exhibit, Declaring Space, looks to confound that view.
Leaps and Bounds
Big TicketTexas Ballet Theater revives Coppélia this weekend in Bass Performance Hall, with four performances of Ben Stevenson’s popular version of the evening-length classic. Four couples are scheduled to dance the romantic leads of ...
Klezmer Tango
Big TicketFort Worth’s cultural institutions continue to do their part to show us classical music as a vibrant, growing contemporary thing.
Black Screens
Big TicketThe term “film noir” was invented by French critics in the late 1950s as a label for a set of movies that Hollywood started making in the ’40s.
Fo, Fo, Fo
Big TicketMany English-speaking theatergoers had never heard of Dario Fo before 1997, when he won the Nobel Prize for literature.
All-Mahler
Big TicketThe Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents a four-day, four-concert all-Gustav Mahler series this week featuring three of the composer’s outsized symphonies.
Carter Returns
Big TicketHaving been shut down all summer due to repairs on the fire suppression system, the Amon Carter Museum holds its grand reopening this weekend.
Essential Art House
Big TicketThe death last week of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman triggered a day of mourning for lovers of international cinema.