On the Edge
Ordinarily we would give pride of place to Spring Gallery Night (see: Saturday blurb), but we can’t resist an arts festival that’s making its...
NXSW
While South by Southwest kicks off this weekend in Austin, Denton’s showing how much it cares for the competition by throwing its own music...
Return Engagement
It was quite a coup for the Van Cliburn Piano Competition to engage one of America’s greatest conductors, Leonard Slatkin, to conduct the Fort...
Back to Texas Ballet Theater
Starting the year with a full repertory program, Texas Ballet Theater will present three classic gems from the last century in Bass Performance Hall...
Red White and Blue Notes
What is American music? You may have a hard time answering that after the Cliburn Festival, a series of five concerts of vocal and...
Faces Before Us
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is in many ways disturbingly modern. He excelled at depicting terrors of the soul, whether they were imaginary...
Cello Pärt
The Cliburn Concerts were scheduled to bring in Alisa Weilerstein this week, but she had to cancel. Not to worry, though; Joshua Roman should...
Black and Blues
“They about to drive me crazy,” says one character in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. “Who don’t know where the other one is or went...
Out of the Basement
The thing about being a modern art museum is that, if you hang on to your artworks long enough, they’re not modern anymore. That’s...
Unbroken Horses
Why did France submit an entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar that was filmed in Turkey and performed entirely in Turkish? Writer-director Deniz...
