Gay Place: Two-Party Parties

Look for political party parties toward the end of the week

"...BACH IS FOR LOVERS Happy Birthday, J.S. Bach, you poofy-headed..."

March 29, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Top 10 Classical Music Treasures of 2011

Ancient voices, singing strings, and lots of Bach made 2011 a fine year for ears

"...6) 'OUT OF THE BACH'S' (Austin Chamber Music Center) This pairing of pianist Michelle..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Anton Nel, Piano, With Martin Burke, Actor

A tremendously memorable day of music that showed the breadth of Nel's skills

"...a brief moment, and tore into Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's 12 Variations on "Les Folies d'Espagne." Nel's attire befitted..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Top 10 'It's Alive!' Moments in Dance, of Those Events I Happened To See in 2010

Recalling the times in 2010 when contemporary dance and ballet showed a pulse

"..."Gathering Clouds"; the dancers seemingly internalized grace and made Bach's Goldberg Variations visual...."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Summer Schedule Highlights

"...great artistic experimenter and the most prolific composer since Bach...."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Suites and Leftovers

La Follia made a feast of leftovers for their post-Thanksgiving offering at First Presbyterian Church.

"...Flutist Marcus McGuff grafted movements by W.F. Bach, Frederick the Great, and Johann Ludwig Hasse into one..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Bach: B Minor Mass

The Conspirare choir can do anything, from communicating a work's sonorous beauty to delivering well-placed, carefully planned emotional punches, and they did both in their recent performance of the Bach B Minor Mass.

"...Bach: 'B Minor Mass': Consummate Care..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Baise-Moi

"...Starring: Hacène Beddrouh, Patrick Eudeline, Ouassini Embarek, H.P.G., Karen Bach and Raffailla Anderson. The new French film Baise-Moi arrives..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday

Seventies funk GOATs, queer nu metal, and so much more

"...and widow Wendy Dio, Skid Row power forward Sebastian Bach (dude is big and tall and rangy), and Butler..."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

Austin Symphony Orchestra Keeps Playing From Beyond the Stage

For the second time in its 109-year history, the ASO weathers a global pandemic

"...drawn by familiar music), Calixte chose to play a Bach violin sonata. "It was a personal challenge, because ......"

June 19, 2020 Arts Feature by David Sotelo

Get Your Invigorating Art On This Weekend!

Kind of like a pep pill for the life of your work-fatigued mind

"...3) PANORAMIC VOICES: BACH MASS IN B MINOR The alliteration doesn’t stop with..."

Aug. 10, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

2017 Revel Solstice Festival

Two recent concerts in the summerlong fest played up the informality and intimacy of Revel's approach to classical music

"...The Allegro Chamber Trio – Megan Meisen­bach (flute), Elaine Barber (harp), and Bruce Williams (viola) –..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...in Excelsis Deo!, Ensemble VIII Great Big Choruses, Conspirare/Victoria Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Michelle Schumann and Graham Reynolds' Joyful Noise

For their new Austin Chamber Music Center collaboration, the pianist and composer crank up the reverb but good

"...a pianist prized for her playing of Beethoven and Bach, then remember that Schumann also made a local tradition..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Bach vs. Handel Smackdown, La Follia..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

2012 Austin Chamber Music Festival

Michelle Schumann's cause for excitement

"...Mornin'," Steve Reich's "New York Counterpoint," and Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata in D Major for Viola da Gamba. With..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: Classical Alchemy

How Austin is transmuting the music of old into dance, art, and comedy

"...Ballet Austin artistic director won't have a work by Bach just accompany a ballet he's created. As he proved..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Class

The 2009-2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"..."Angel of My Nature," Truth & Beauty: The Bach Project Choreographer..."

June 11, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Give 'Em a Hand

The nominees for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...David Justin, "Speed Dial"/"Bach Sonata"/..."

May 15, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Verdi's Greatest Opera

"...beautiful, and we had this collaboration with the Victoria Bach Festival that seemed like a perfect fit. [Johnson is..."

June 20, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...J.S. Bach: Magnificat, Austin Symphony Orchestra with Choirs of St. David's..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mozart! (Like You've Never Heard It Before)

Austin choral ensemble Conspirare marks Mozart's 250th birthday with the newly finished version of his 'Mass in C Minor' in the concert Mozart! (Like You've Never Heard It Before)

"...musicologist, and composer, at the behest of the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, reworked and made additions to the..."

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Monteverdi's 'Vespers of 1610': Heaven, I'm in Heaven

For Jeffrey Jones-Ragona and Daniel Johnson, performing Monteverdi's divine 'Vespers of 1610' in its entirety at St. Mary's Cathedral is a dream come true

"...and we hear heaven itself. Like Handel's Messiah and Bach's St. Matthew Passion, the Vespers is sacred music at..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Happy Bachday!

What do you give a famous composer for his 419th birthday? The Budjanova Quartet is giving J.S. Bach a concert of his music performed by some of Austin's most gifted musicians.

"...Bourianoff, is making a concert gift to Johann Sebastian Bach (and the rest of us) on Sunday, March 21...."

March 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Big Old Jam Thing, Baroque Style

For its post-Thanksgiving concert of Suites and Leftovers, La Follia reheats the best bits of the musical past into a jazzy feast.

"...from juicy movements by Frederick the Great, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, and Ludwig Hasse...."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Austin Symphony with Caitlin Tully

Local Arts Reviews

"...The audience was treated to a single extra (exquisite) Bach solo, and that was that...."

Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Hearts and Violins

Jennifer Bourianoff has found happiness playing chamber music and living in Austin.

"...her beloved hometown only long enough to obtain her bachelor's degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music [CIM]. "I..."

June 29, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Putting It Together

The Austin Symphony's Peter Bay on Leading an Orchestra, Interpreting a Score, and Seeing Music

"...time frame of music. I love Copland, I love Bach, Beethoven, and some contemporary music I'm very fond of...."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Articulations

Director Don Toner announces a new theatre company for himself, David Stevens announces his departure from Chorus Austin, and UT's Department of Art & Art History announces a rare meeting of critical minds.

"...Austin Civic Chorus, Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble, the Texas Bach Festival, the Orchestra of St. David's, and the Summer..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Yo-Yo Ma, Hogg Auditorium, October 11

"...seat. Seconds later, the opening strains of Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

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