Review: Bon Appétit!
A presentation of Dallas Opera at the Dallas Farmer’s Market Demonstration Kitchen February 9, 2013 At the heart of Bon Appétit are affection, admiration, and respect. The signature sign-off phrase of one of television history’s largest figures, Julia Child, is the title of a curtain-raiser written in 1988 by composer Lee Hoiby, with a libretto [...]
Cupid Unites Poetry and Music
Orchestra of New Spain is planning a special Valentine’s concert that will transport audiences to the romantic period of 18th Century Spain, a two-hour show filled with gorgeous arias sung by renown singers in stunning period costumes accompanied by a live orchestra and dancers adorning the stage. The Dallas-based Orchestra is a group dedicated to [...]
The Con is On
The first national tour of Catch Me If You Can lands in Fair Park February 12. This swanky new musical about contemporary con man Frank Abagnale, Jr. is the 2013 season opener for the Dallas Summer Musicals. Based on the 2002 Steven Spielberg film, the songwriting duo Marc Shaiman [...]
SMU Awards Annual Prize
The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University has announced the recipients of its fourth annual Meadows Prize arts residency – violist Nadia Sirota and interdisciplinary artist Tania Bruguera. The Meadows Prize is awarded to pioneering artists and scholars with an emerging international profile, active in a discipline [...]
Cowboys of Color
Fort Worth’s Jubilee Theatre creates Black Spurs, a new musical about cowboys of color on the Chisholm Trail. When Tre Garrett first came to Fort Worth in late 2010 to take over as artistic director of The Jubilee Theatre, he decided he needed to get to know more about the culture of Cowtown. He found [...]
The Magic of Mozart
The Dallas Symphony showcases two weekends with music by everyone’s favorite composer Mozart’s birthday is January 27. (He’ll be 257 years old.) So is that why the DSO is presenting back-to-back all-Mozart subscription concerts this month? It’s not a bad reason to celebrate – but there are so many better ones. The fact is, Mozart [...]
An Overnight Sensation
It is the stuff of dreams. Understudy goes on at the last minute. Important performance. Internationally broadcast over the radio. Wows the audience. Endless ovation as the curtain falls. Press raves. Career launched into the stratosphere overnight. The next day, agent’s phone rings off the hook. Booked for years in the future. Is there a [...]
The History of Music
Dallas Symphony commissions new music based on an obscure date in U.S. history It can be said that August 4, 1964 was one of the most important days in U.S. foreign policy. On that day, Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense in President Lyndon Johnson’s administration, made a fateful press statement that North Vietnam had [...]
Review: Jersey Boys
Lexus Broadway Series @ AT&T Performing Arts Center June 12–July 15, 2012 There seem to be an increasing number of musicals, thematically driven by pop and rock concept, like Rain (The Beatles Experience) Moving Out, Rock of Ages, Mamma Mia! …often (but not always) focusing on the portfolio of one particular group. Financially such ventures [...]
All Jazzed Up
Even as they have decided to cancel this year’s Jazz Under the Stars outdoor series, Dallas Museum of Art continues it Thursday night indoor jazz series. This year’s schedule is in full swing with an eclectic line-up of musicians waiting in the wings, including Dallas pianist-arranger-composer Dave Zoller, whose newest group, Rio!, plays July 19. [...]
