BackStage reports: Support for the arts in the House of Representatives increased appreciably during the soon-to-conclude legislative session, according to Americans for the Arts, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy organization, which released its Congressional Arts Report Card Sept. 22. There were 181 members of Congress receiving a grade of A or higher, up from 179 in [...]
Sculptors Jay Silber (left) and Etty Horowitz discussing art in front of Barbara Hepworth’s Squares with Two Circles (Monolith) at the Nasher Sculpture Garden. The Texas Sculpture Association celebrated 25 years of supporting and cultivating North Texas’ thriving community of sculptors. The three-day event included parties, tours, lots of food, and a Saturday symposium which [...]
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For a day that saw the tragic end of contemporary writer David Foster Wallace, a fortuitous counterbalance was found in Dallas with life expressed by author Junot Diaz. Diaz participated in a vibrant discussion of his work for the Writers Studio at the Dallas Museum of Art. His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of [...]
Anthony Tommasini, the classical music critic of the New York Times, has written a bittersweet profile of George Steel, the new general director of the Dallas Opera. Sweet, because Tommasini clearly values Steel highly as an innovative New York musical theater presenter and producer (he has turned Columbia University’s Miller Theater into “a hotbed of [...]
With all of the attention and praise devoted to Jaap van Zweden’s arrival as the Dallas Symphony’s new conductor — and the symphony’s debut next week of a new work by a major modern composer –it’s worth checking out Alex Ross’ piece in the New Yorker (“Why So Serious?” — a great title, by the [...]
Composer John Adams had his opera, Nixon in China. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky now has his “LBJ Goes to Vietnam and Mississippi.” His new work, August 4, 1964, commissioned by the Dallas Symphony, concerns the day that the bodies of three murdered civil rights/voter registration workers were finally found in Mississippi, the same day [...]
To listen to the KERA radio story: (A note on pronunciation: If you listen to the radio story, you’ll hear me pronounce Jaap van Zweden’s name as “Yaap von Zwedin” — based on what DSO reps told me, when I asked, and what the Dallas Morning News has insisted is correct. But after the radio [...]
Get the Flash Player to see this content. The 4,000 seat Dallas Sportatorium made its debut as a wrestling arena, but beginning in the 1940s, it was home to the Big D Jamboree, a music show in the spirit of the Grand Old Opry. Watch this segment from Nowhere But Texas 2, first broadcast tonight [...]
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