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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Because my blog post last week about the arts policies of the presidential candidates has received a great deal of attention around the web, I thought it was important to note a significant addition to the original post: CORRECTION/AMPLIFICATION: Because of that single statement [by John McCain] about obscenity and federal subsidies, I attributed to [...]
The 40 dancers of the Texas Ballet Theater have started their own fundraising drive for the financially troubled company, which needs $2 million in pledges and at least $500,000 of that in cash by mid-September. Get Behind Your Ballet will hold a day-long fundraising sale this Saturday, Sept. 6, beginning at 8 p.m. at the [...]
The Who’s Tommy with (front) Nehal Joshi, Heath Williams II and Betsy Wolfe and (back) Oso Closo. For ticket and show information, click here. This Friday, be sure to watch Krys Boyd’s interview with artistic director Kevin Moriarty on KERA Television. KERA radio version: Expanded online version: Despite its huge successes – on film, on [...]
It’s difficult to assess the presidential candidates’ differences on the arts, arts funding and arts education for a simple reason: Senator McCain doesn’t seem to have spelled out any stand on these issues, other than a general opposition to funding “obscenity.” This isn’t meant as a partisan statement in support of Senator Obama. If you [...]
This week’s issue of the Dallas Observer (not yet available online) features not one but two sizable arts profiles, cover boy Kevin Moriarty, the new artistic director of the Dallas Theater Center, and an inside “City” column on George Steel, the new general director of the Dallas Opera. The usual talk of a watershed moment [...]
Image from www.secsportsfan.com/sec-swimming-and-diving.html Southern Methodist University English professor and long-time editor-in-chief of The Southwest Review, Willard Spiegelman has a wonderfully reflective essay in the new issue of American Scholar on swimming — part personal memoir, part literary history and part of a new book by him, Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness, due from Farrar [...]
London’s Globe Theatre is launching its own record label, Globe Editions, this fall as a way to reach new audiences. The first album, Elizabethan Street Songs, is performed by early music expert and Globe musician Jim Bisgood and his band Tarleton’s Jig, using traditional instruments such as the sackbut, archlute and hurdygurdy. Important caveat: The [...]
The extensive music library and memorabilia collection of the late jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson has been purchased by an anonymous donor — and given to the University of North Texas, where it joins the collection of bandleader Stan Kenton. Image from www.petererskine.com
