Click on the logo to watch the video: Get the Flash Player to see this content. In this Scene segment from Think, Krys Boyd talks to Roger Boykin, who, with Wendell Sneed, created the South Dallas Pop Festival in the early ’70s. Think airs Friday nights at 7:30 on KERA (Channel 13) and repeats Sunday [...]
Click on the image to see the video: Get the Flash Player to see this content. The KERA radio story: Previous feature on the center Today’s expanded online story: st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; [...]
With the Impressionists at the Kimbell and all the King Tut hooplah taking over the Dallas Museum of Art, you might not have noticed that the other blockbuster exhibition in the area — and one that’s just a leettle more contemporary and risk-taking than the other two — closes this weekend. It’s your last chance [...]
In The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell examines the popular tradition of the young genius: Genius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity—doing something truly creative, we’re inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth. Orson Welles made his masterpiece, “Citizen Kane,” at twenty-five. Mozart wrote his breakthrough Piano [...]
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Krys Boyd talks to Darryl E. Real, vice president for agriculture/livestock for the State Fair, about the kids breeding and raising prizewinning livestock — and how those competitions work.
… you could buy the rights to what is probably Broadway’s greatest back catalog. The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, the private company which controls the rights to such shows as Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific and The Sound of Music, is up for auction.
Click on the image to see the video tour: Get the Flash Player to see this content. The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: Cicadas drone, and a crow calls from the distant trees. A white egret, with stately care, steps into the pond. It’s hard to believe we’re in Dallas. Yet we’re closer [...]
It was probably Professor Peter Schickele (a.k.a. PDQ Bach) who first composed a musical work that actually set different musicians at each other’s throats (the Concerto for Two Pianos vs. Orchestra), although one wonders if it hadn’t been done before — the way some composers have orchestrated their works as if the instrumental sections were [...]
His campaign finally released a statement about government and the arts. Here it is, in its entirety: John McCain believes that arts education can play a vital role fostering creativity and expression. He is a strong believer in empowering local school districts to establish priorities based on the needs of local schools and school districts. [...]
And the answer to Stephen’s question (see below) about who the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts would get to make their opening-day announcement is really quite simple. Just get the Greatest Voice for Announcing Anything in the World. James Earl Jones – who promptly gave the dignitaries and million-dollar arts patrons assembled at the [...]
