Posts Tagged ‘orchestra’
New York State of Mind
Big TicketBefore Dave Matthews and John Mayer, there was Billy Joel, a singer-songwriter who had the technical chops to satisfy progressive tastes and the ability to write the kind of simple, effective, no-nonsense lyrics that made mains...
Three Strings
Big TicketFort Worth Symphony Orchestra‘s commitment to new music continues this weekend. Oh, Dvorák’s “From the New World” Symphony will be played as a sop to the traditionalists in the crowd, but the rest of th...
The Zoo Redux
KulturThirty years ago, if you were in high school and you had a car, you almost had to have a sticker in your back window swearing fealty to either of two radio stations: KZEW/98-FM The Zoo or KTXQ/102-FM Q102.
For Hands
Leonard EurekaBeethoven fans should be flocking to Bass Performance Hall this weekend for the Fort Worth Symphony’s three-day festival saluting the popular German composer. A different symphony will be heard each night: the Third, R...
Moods of Mahler
Big TicketGustav Mahler was a talented but tyrannical orchestra conductor, a believer in numerological superstitions and a man whose workaholic habits so wrecked his marriage that he and his wife wound up consulting Sigmund Freud himself...
Fly By Night
TBT revives Dracula and longs for a new eastward lair.Stage
Not long after he took over Texas Ballet Theater five years ago, director Ben Stevenson produced Dracula.
Musical Games
Big TicketHere’s to the local symphony orchestras doing weird things with their programming.
Pump It Up
Drummer Adonis Rose keeps taking giant steps toward putting the Fort on the jazz map.CAROLINE COLLIER
When Adonis Rose arrived in Fort Worth a little more than two years ago, he found the jazz scene here a little lacking.