World’s best double bass players are duking it out in Denton; Marshall, Texas stakes claim as boogie woogie birthplace; last chance for the summer’s coolest giveaway, and more.

The Dallas Morning News Classical Music Critic discusses the first year of the Winspear Opera House and recent world premieres by the Fort Worth Opera and Dallas Opera.

With graceful movements and soaring music, ballet is romance in motion. And for some members of the Texas Ballet Theater, that onstage passion has lead to off-stage coupling. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports on why it’s so easy for dancers to fall in love:

Feeling blue because the Fort Worth Opera season is over? Watch this video, remember the highlights, and let the sunshine in.

After a Tarleton State University student production of Terrence McNally’s “gay Jesus” play, ‘Corpus Christi,’ was cancelled, after a Fort Worth theater offered to stage the production and then rescinded the offer, after all the controversy, a long-running touring version made its debut Friday at the Cathedral of Hope.

Watch David Dillon on the role of architecture critic, and the importance of newspapers. The interview excerpts with Dillon, who died yesterday, were shot for Stop the Presses, a documentary by Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza.

Last chance to win tickets to Fort Worth Opera’s “Elixir of Love”

Choreographer/dancer Jose Zamora, from Texas Woman’s University, was just one from North Texas whose work was highlighted at the college dance festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Guest blogger Ellen Chenoweth files this report from opening night.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF: Not planning on traveling this summer? Visiting the Amon Carter may provide at least a little escape. The museum is hosting “Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light,” an exhibition of 40 of the photographer’s pictures.

Despite a few flaws, the Fort Worth Opera’s performance of Don Giovanni on Sunday afternoon provided its fair share of musical and dramatic thrills. Olin Chism reviews.