Miró Quartet

For their second concert of the season, the lavish tone and flawlessness of the Miró Quartet served Beethoven better than Ives and Crumb

"...an integrated form, a shortcoming in their performance of Charles Ives' String Quartet No. 1, "From the Salvation Army"..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Spectrum Dance Theater’s Rambunctious

The company’s program, with a new work inspired by the 1966 UT Tower shooting, spoke powerfully to our present moment

"...The dances were as varied as the music by Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Vincent Persichetti, Charles Wuorinen, and Yevgeniy..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Summer Schedule Highlights

"...Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) lives in two shadows. The first is that his own..."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Austin Symphony Orchestra's Variation Voyage

ASO’s first concert of 2019 had us hearing all sorts of feels, but Leon Fleisher’s piano also got us thinking

"...built the program around works that played with variations: Charles Ives embellishing the tune for Variations on "America" in..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

This Is Who We Are #6: Miró Quartet's Faces of America: The Light

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...favor some older works by known composers (Antonín Dvorák, Charles Ives), the program pushed beyond the familiar urban jazz..."

May 12, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Faces of America: The Light

The Miró Quartet examines our national character and finds some of America's lights still shine brightly

"...favor some older works by known composers (Antonín Dvorák, Charles Ives), the program pushed beyond the familiar urban jazz..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Zappa

Two hours with the original Mother of Invention isn't enough

"...violinist David Harrington in guilting Zappa by association with Charles Ives, Harry Partch, Sun Ra...."

Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Back to a Shadow in the Night

Collected works of Jonathan Cott takes music criticism into deep territories

"...Glenn Gould, or discussing the work of Edgard Varèse, Charles Ives, and Kurt Weill. Yet Cott's education allows him..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Sound Unseen Review: Zappa

or "The Impossibility of a Primer About an Obtuse Genius"

"...violinist David Harrington in guilting Zappa by association with Charles Ives, Harry Parch, Sun Ra...."

Nov. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Raoul Hernandez

'Copland and Mexico'

Five-day concert series highlights this composer and orchestral music south of the border

"...Louisville Orchestra. "Copland and Mexico" will be followed by "Charles Ives' America," which will spread over multiple weeks and..."

March 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Revolutionary Score

The Founding Fathers' first declaration: 'We're an American band!'

"...dissonance that Billings employs, more than a century before Charles Ives; the disarming simplicity of Hopkinson's early art song..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Chamber Music Festival

Michelle Schumann's cause for excitement

"...and Piano, George Gershwin's Three Preludes, Robert Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Charles Ives' "Serenity" and "In the Mornin'," Steve Reich's "New..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wharton Dancer

The flourishing legacy of the late Lone Star dramatist Horton Foote

"...plays that jointly form the story of his parents' lives – reach the stage in an epic production that..."

March 12, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Symphony Orchestra: Commission fever

ASO has commissioned a new orchestral work from composer Christopher Theofanidis

"...Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Charles Ives Fellowship. In short, ASO has lined up a..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Summer Series Schedule

"...July 2: Charles Ives..."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature

The Austin Contingent

"...Round Top and as a featured soloist in the Charles Ives memorial concert...."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

For the People

Why Shostakovich, as played by the UT Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Kevin Noe, is better than 20 punk rock bands

"...Last year's pairing of Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, for instance – in one..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...the same breath as Stephen Foster, John Phillip Sousa, Charles Ives, and Scott Joplin as one of the great..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Christopher Gray

Bobo StensonSerenity (ECM)

"...free playing and covers of works by Alban Berg, Charles Ives, Hanns Eisler, Wayne Shorter, Cuban Silvio Rodriguez, and..."

June 16, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Rebel Music

Medeski, Martin & Wood

"...John Coltrane to African and Brazilian music to neo-classicist Charles Ives to James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic to Sun Ra...."

May 5, 1995 Music Feature

Dueling Dickens

Two productions of a seasonal classic raise the spirits, with Zach Theatre's A Christmas Carol vs. Penfold Theatre's A Christmas Carol Classic Radiocast

"...You know the story. Set in mid-19th-century London, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a morality tale about..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Magnificent Seven

Revisionist remake stars a diverse rainbow coalition

"...starring Yul Brynner and the then-relatively-little-known actors Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and Robert Vaughn lent the film..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...mayhem is presented. Malick's script, inspired by the 1958 Charles Starkweather-Carol Ann Fugate serial murders, presents young killers Kit..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...the comedy Under Construction, another madcap theatrical mash-up by Charles Mee directed by David Long for the Mary Moody..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...in the soundtrack are Peggy Lee purring "Fever," Burl Ives harrumphing "The Donut Song," Gene Autry advancing the argument..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

TV Eye

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"...television. Actually, it first occurred earlier this year when Charles Schulz died. Sure, there are enough Peanuts comic strips..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta