This Week in Texas Music History: Gene Austin

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This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet one of the most successful yet least well-known musicians ever to come from the Lone Star State.

Saturday Spotlight: Texas Discovery Gardens

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n the Saturday Spotlight, we’re going tropical.
Afternoon Delight: Dubstep Pens

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A Dubstep beat created out of nothing but school supplies? It’s Friday, so why not.

Van Zweden’s Return Produces Musical High Point

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With 11 months still to go, Thursday night’s concert by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is easily in the running for one of the year’s best.
The program included two masterpieces — Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 — and two musical stars — principal clarinetist Gregory Raden and conductor Jaap van Zweden.
Friday Morning Roundup

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Today in the roundup: A big weekend for local clarinetists, rethinking what engagement in the arts means and the Amon Carter’s new interpretation manager.

Jan. 23-29

Monday, noon: What happens when a woman flees her homeland for the perceived safety of America, only to be pursued relentlessly across her new country? We'll talk this hour with award-winning novelist and storyteller Luis Alberto Urrea, whose new book is Queen of America: A Novel.
Sunday, 6 p.m. Studio 360

Thursday, 7 p.m.: Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2
Thursday, 10 p.m.: Austin City Limits - Joanna Newsom, Fleet Foxes
Friday, 8 p.m.: Great Performances - Tony Bennett Duets II
Friday, 9:30 p.m.: The Doors: When You're Strange
Sunday, 3:30 p.m.: Great Performances - Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park