Queen of the Nile
Cleopatra holds an unusual place among ballets in that it was first created for an opera. Back in the days before film and television,...
Memories of Vienna
Alfred Schnittke was a Soviet composer of German Jewish descent, and his ancestry reflected heavily in the music he wrote. In particular, his three-year...
Wine Wine
When Spanish missionaries came to this hemisphere, they planted their native grapes all over the soils of the American Southwest. Many of their efforts...
Pictures on the Wall
Does it seem too hot for Fall Gallery Night? Have we made that observation before? If so, we apologize, but while the jokes about...
Mermaids and Princesses
If it’s late August/early September, then it must be time for the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth to break out the anime, and...
Len Century
This Saturday would have been the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein, and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra is marking the occasion with a weekend-long blowout,...
Drag the River
Men on Boats premiered in New York City three summers ago, right when Hamilton was getting ready to do the same thing. While Lin-Manuel...
Strawberry Jam
If you don’t know your baseball history, you should know that Darryl Strawberry was one of the most feared home-run hitters in the sport...
Chopper
When Stephen Sondheim worked on a new piece, it was his habit to play preliminary sketches of his songs to Judy Prince, the wife...
Summer Songs
Brett Haley’s music drama Hearts Beat Loud stars Nick Offerman as a widowed Brooklyn record-store owner whose only daughter (Kiersey Clemons) has her heart...
