Posts Tagged ‘performance’
Early Jump on Holidays
Big TicketBallet Frontier, the performing wing of Ballet Center of Fort Worth, will get a leg up on Christmas, performing The Nutcracker twice on Saturday at Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium. Company director Chung-Lin Tseng, a former pri...
Legs and Tails
LEONARD EUREKALast weekend at Bass Performance Hall, there were many bright spots in Texas Ballet Theater’s season-opening performance of The Russian Masters, a repertory program that showed some of the company’s strengths in fam...
Midori and Tsujii
KRISTIAN LINFresh from its recent all-Beethoven Festival, the Fort Worth Symphony begins its regular subscription series this weekend with Japanese violinist Midori as soloist. A one-time child prodigy (she debuted with the New York Philha...
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...
Red Stars
Big TicketGuest dancers in gala showstopping performance pieces will highlight Metropolitan Classical Ballet’s season-closing program, An Evening with the Stars, Saturday in Bass Performance Hall.
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.
The Lang Way Around
Big TicketLang Lang became interested in classical music the same way that many of us took our first interest in it: through Saturday morning cartoons.
Shiny Penny
This well-acted contemporary fable turns a sow’s nose into a silk purse.Kristian Lin
Penelope is one of those movies that looks really bad on paper.
Painted Violins … Strings Attached
GalleryA few dozen violins painted by local celebrities make up Painted Violins, on display at Bass Hall weekends thru March 18 and at Sid Richardson Museum thru Saturday.
A Turn (and Jump) for the Better
TBT’s Nutcracker has always been a pleasure but is a must-see this season.Stage
From a humble American beginning at the San Francisco Ballet under war-rationing restrictions in 1944, The Nutcracker has become a national Christmas tradition, performed by seemingly every dance company in the country, every y...