UT’s Texas Performing Arts recently emptied OTR’s wallet with a rare date with Neil Young and has now upped the ante with the announcement of its 2010-11 season. Highlights include the Ornette Coleman Quartet in November and, as part of next year’s Fusebox Festival, Bang on a Can All-Stars with Wilco’s Glenn Kotchke. View the full schedule after the jump.
Jean Piché, composer, video artist
September 9, McCullough Theatre
Punch Brothers with Chris Thile; Loudon Wainwright III
September 10, Bass Concert Hall
Operación Clown; Cállate (Shut Up!)
September 15-16 2010, McCullough Theatre
The Last Cargo Cult (Texas Premiere)
September 21-22, McCullough Theatre
Delfos Danza Contemporánea
September 23, Bass Concert Hall
The University of Texas Wind Ensemble
September 26, Bass Concert Hall
Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI; La Capella Reial de Catalunya; Tembembe Ensamble Continuo
October 3, Bates Recital Hall
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Jonathan Biss, piano
October 22, Bass Concert Hall
Luciana Souza Trio
October 25, Hogg Memorial Auditorium
Cyro Baptista; Villa-Lobos / Vira Loucos
October 26, Hogg Memorial Auditorium
MOMIX: Botanica
October 28-29, Bass Concert Hall
LA Theatre Works presents The Real Dr. Strangelove: Edward Teller and the Battle for the H-Bomb
November 9, Hogg Memorial Auditorium
Ornette Coleman Quartet
November 18, Bass Concert Hall
The Klezmatics with special guest Richard Stoltzman
November 30, Bass Concert Hall
An Evening with Michael Pollan
December 10, Bass Concert Hall
The Parker Quartet
January 20, McCullough Theatre
Bang on a Can All-Stars with special guest Glenn Kotche
January 26, Bass Concert Hall
Reduced Shakespeare Company, The Complete World of Sports (abridged)
January 29, B. Iden Payne Theatre
Emanuel Ax, piano
February 10, Bates Recital Hall
National Theatre of Scotland, Black Watch
February 16-20, Bass Concert Hall Stage
Miró Quartet with Colin Currie
February 22, Bates Recital Hall
Merce Cunningham: The Legacy Tour
March 8, Bass Concert Hall
Nathan Gunn &Julie Gunn
March 9, Bates Recital Hall
eighth blackbird: Slide
Texas Premiere by Rinde Eckert and Steve Mackey
March 23, McCullough Theatre
San Francisco Jazz Collective
March 24, Bass Concert Hall
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
March 28, Bass Concert Hall
Festival of Children’s Voices
April 10, Bass Concert Hall
Sergio and Odair Assad; De Volta As Raizes (Back To Our Roots)
April 13, Hogg Memorial Auditorium
2011 Longhorn Jazz Festival
April 16, Bates Recital Hall
Yosvany Terry; Ye-dé-gbé and the Afro-Caribbean Legacy
April 29, Hogg Memorial Auditorium
This article appears in April 9 • 2010.