Alex Ross’ prize-winning book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, is likely to remain the finest survey of modern music for quite some time. That’s because Ross, the classical music critic for The New Yorker, seems to have listened to just about everything, read just about everything and thought about both long [...]
WEAVING A NEW WEB: It’s no secret that opera fans skew older – it’s one of the most classical of art forms and takes a certain level of cultural knowledge to appreciate. But that’s not keeping either of our North Texas opera companies from trying to develop a younger fan base. That thought occurred to [...]
KERA (Channel 13) is debuting a cool new concert series tonight at 10 p.m. called Live From the Artists Den. The show is unique because it captures the performers playing in unusual settings. Tonight’s episode features Alanis Morissette performing inside Judson Memorial Church in New York City. Future episodes will include Ani DiFranco at the [...]
FREE TRIP TO LONDON: Are you headed out to London to catch Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya‘s debut with the English National Opera? Us neither. But there’s good news. Classicaltv.com will broadcast Harth-Bedoya leading the ENO’s production of Puccini’s La boheme at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. An extra-cool feature of the site is [...]
The Dallas Opera has announced scheduling and casting details for its first season in the new Winspear Opera House. The season will open on Friday, Oct. 23, with a performance of Verdi’s Otello. Also scheduled are Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte (opening on Feb. 12), Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (Feb. 19), Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick — a world [...]
February marks Black History Month, and KERA (90.1 FM) has a couple of arts-related specials in the hopper that I want to get the advance word out on: Saturday, Feb. 14, 8-9 p.m.: “A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood: The Musical Journey of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr” — From Martin Luther King, Jr.’s childhood piano [...]
THE ART OF THE DEAL: The idea of artists bartering their work is one that has gained steam of late. This fall, The New York Times wrote about a couple of art directors who set up a Web site (wantsforsale.com) that sells pictures of the things they want for the price of the thing in [...]
Saxophonist Tom Braxton will be performing in Carrollton tomorrow night with the North Texas-based Crosswinds Jazz Band as part of a benefit concert to increase awareness about ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Nancy Bass, wife of Crosswinds bandleader Brian Bass, was diagnosed with ALS four years ago, and proceeds from the $15 admission [...]
First Presbyterian Church of Ft. Worth brings Highland dancers, Scottish foods and 50 different tartan banners to its Kirkin’ of the Tartans worship service and celebration on Sunday. This kind of pageantry is irresistable to a girl whose middle name is Graham, yet I do not know what kirkin’ is exactly. The press release states: [...]
The Nasher Sculpture Center has named Jeremy Strick, the former director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, as its new director. The move comes almost two years after its original director, Steven Nash, resigned. “Having worked with the Nasher Collection at the very outset of my career, I am especially delighted to be [...]
