Local Theater Roundup
Even though we’re well into fall, we’re seeing lots of productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Stolen Shakespeare Guild is putting the show...
My Own Private Idaho
Circle Theatre continues to keep our theater scene fresh and relevant, opening the quietly disquieting A Bright New Boise this week. Samuel D. Hunter’s...
Stringed Instruments
If your mental image of bows and arrows mostly comes from movies like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you might want to take...
V-Day Roundup
Valentine's Day may be a creation of the retail sector to drive up sales during a slow period, but it has given rise to...
Glass Slipper, Silver Lining
There's good news and bad from Texas Ballet Theater as its season-closing revival of Ben Stevenson's Cleopatra rolls into Bass Performance Hall this weekend.
The...
Preludes to Nothing
In the time of Bach, preludes were a genre of small musical pieces for the keyboard intended to introduce a larger work. However, in...
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...
Talk It Out
The most interesting events happening this week are all on the lecture and author appearances circuit. At UNT, Cary Peppermint and Leila Christine Nadir...
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...
Celebrating Composers
Gunther Schuller turns 88 next week, and so UTA is holding a celebration of this composer who has led an extraordinary life. A sideman...