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"...http://www.main.org/newtexas. 476-5775.New Texas Festival: Welcher: JFK: The Voice of Peace/Bach: Cantata BWV 39Southwest premiere of Austin composer Welcher's oratorio..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art of the State

Art:

"...Theatre Center, 500 Texas Ave., Houston. 800/828-ARTS. Music: DALLAS BACH SOCIETY presents A PDQ Bach New Year's Eve, ringing..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Arts Feature

Unheard Voices

Diverse Stories Break Through

"...You're listening to a men's chorale sing... say, a Bach cantata. The music is glorious and gloriously rendered but..."

July 7, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Celebrations of NYE Weekend

Boot out 2022 and usher in 2023 with laughs, music, and a good walk

"...humanity's ultimate fate. La Follia: End the Year With Bach..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...Geezer Butler talking with former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach about the enduring power of metal...."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Ventana Ballet Opens Season Three With a Flock of Night Birds

The company's avian-themed program includes five dancers, three cellists, and art from the atxGALS collective inside the Cathedral

"...One of the dancers explained that the "Prelude" from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 reminded her of an owl..."

July 30, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 14-20

"...20-May 20): A fan once asked composer Johann Sebastian Bach about his creative process. He was so prolific! How..."

May 14, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...'Slap My Butt' (France) / D: Pierre Saba-Aris King Bach - 'Secrets' / D: King Bach Lizzo - 'Juice'..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

Activities to get your summer sizzling

"...Bach at the Bach June 15, Luckenbach, www.fredericksburgorchestra.com..."

June 1, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Ballet Austin II and Butler Fellowship Program's Spring Performance

The program's mix of classical and contemporary work challenged its young dancers and left you wanting to see what's next for them

"...Beauty, dancers from both groups drank in the music (Bach), reverent as they moved in canon. Next, Kayla Hallman,..."

March 10, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Dance Repertory Theatre's Momentum

This program of dances informed by African American experiences and culture was highly physical and emotionally urgent

"...Tapestry Dance Company, continued his rhythm tap exploration of Bach with "Bach in Time," for eight women, and "Second..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Break Into the Future

It's a new day for chamber music, as the Austin Chamber Music Festival shows

"...name like Break of Reality (!!) and mixing its Bach with a little Metallica or Tool (!!!). And you're..."

July 3, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Ascent of Mandolin

The next step in Avi Avital's mission to convert the world to mandolin: Vivaldi

"...the balance of tension and release. If you gave Bach and Vivaldi the same little theme and asked them..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Top 10 Kicky Linkups in 2014

This year, dance was all about the partnering – some of it unusual, all of it captivating

"...9) JEREMY ARNOLD/J.S. BACH ("Bach Home," Tapestry Dance Company)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Nymphomaniac: Volume 1

Lars von Trier's latest provocation is more meditation than outright flagellation.

"...the main story. While Seligman rattles off digressions on Bach, the tritone (the dissonant musical interval nicknamed the diabolus..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

World on a String

Young violinists from across the globe flock to Austin for North America's first Menuhin Competition

"...Gregg Young Artists Competition, Dallas Symphonic Festival, Oregon Junior Bach Festival), played with chamber orchestras in Kansas and Germany,..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Butler School of Music

Two concerts – one by Harvey Pittel, one for the late Rose Taylor – pay tribute to 'living in a song'

"...Hovhaness, but expanding it, taking pieces composed by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Marcello, and Loeillet for other instruments and reworking..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 (+1) Dance Classical Music Treasures of 2013

In 2013, dance and classical music were distinguished by their breadth of expression and eloquence

"...8) 'BACH PLUS: ELEGANT CRAFT, ARDENT EXPRESSION'/'CONSPIRARE CHRISTMAS' (Conspirare) Kin concerts..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Organic Chemistry

Austin Chamber Music Festival ensembles prove the key to great musicmaking is to like your fellow players

"...high level that it didn't matter that it wasn't Bach or Beethoven. They were actually encouraged by the president..."

July 12, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Festival 2013 Schedule

Your guide to the 2013 Austin Chamber Music Festival

"...July 21: Eroica Trio Program: Bach, Piazzolla, Gershwin, Brahms. 3pm, Bates Recital Hall, 2406 Robert..."

July 12, 2013 Arts Feature

Culture Connectors

The 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...go to one of classical music's Big Boys: a Bach or a Beethoven. The fact that Donald Grantham can..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dawn Upshaw

The celebrated singer of opera and musical theatre knows how to use the tools for doing her job

"...does on his own, a solo piano evening called Bach and Forth. He alternates Bach piano music with all..."

April 5, 2013 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Fourplay

These four stories of unabashed sexual intimacy are often funny, sometimes poignant, always unconventional and playfully erotic.

"...art images through the ages set to music by Bach and Brahms as performed by the Swingle Singers –..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...Rommel Sulit, Big Love/Men of Tortuga/Bacha Bazi (Boy Play)/The Dragon Play Ensemble Performance..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Orchestrating Partnerships

Maestro Peter Bay likes to play with others – especially when they're outside the orchestra

"...with it?' That took longer to figure out. Somehow, Bach and Stravinsky always make good pairings for me, and..."

May 4, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Black Arts Movement

In Katrina's wake, Samuel Thompson eased survivors' pain with Bach

"...trained musician responded with the "Adagio" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata No. 1 in G Minor and the "Andante"..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Dead and Alive on the Fourth of July

A eulogy spoken over the coffin of our empire

"...Johann Sebastian Bach is dead. Duke Ellington is not. The order Bach..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

SPOT Festival

Making connections at Denmark's SPOT Festival

"...collective that included Danish artists Anna Bell, Ida Wenoe Bach, and Vibeke Falden; Lara Runarsdottir and Johan Kristinsson from..."

June 4, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Possibility of Failure

Pulitzer or not, composer David Lang won't play it safe

"...melds Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" with Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Lang was in Austin for the..."

April 30, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...as my contribution to the cause. Dokken succeeded Sebastian Bach on that quasi-debauched Valentine's Day months earlier, Tell the..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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