Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2014

It was a year in which the personal shone through in dance and classical works small and large

"...compelling pairings driven by Michelle Schumann's expressive readings of Bach and Glass...."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gilmore Girls Reunion Coming to ATX Television Festival

Lorelai, Rory, and the show's creator scheduled to attend

"...reunite Stars Hollow's favorite band, Hep Alien? Surely Sebastian Bach can't be that busy...."

Nov. 13, 2014 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Soul / Sole Connections

This Tapestry concert saw each dancer create a deeply personal solo from the past, then riff on it in the present

"...distinct way. The first, Jeremy Arnold, had me at Bach. In a voiceover, he recalled his childhood exasperation when..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Roll Over, Beerthoven

Saengerrunde Hall's new series turns classical music's "Three Bs" into brezels, bier, and bowling

"...violin and piano, a solo suite for violin by Bach, and Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 101. Food, drinks from..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Campaign Snapshots

City Council Districts 5 and 6

"...Phillips was recently named one of Austin Monthly's 2014 Bach­elors (one assumes the "most eligible" is implied), and fitness..."

Sept. 19, 2014 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Cavatina Duo

The performance by this guitar-flute duo was equal parts intensity and grace – with rich and complex musicianship

"...The eclectic program ranged from a sonata by J.S. Bach to a world premiere commissioned from Austin Classical Guitar's..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Review by Natalie Zeldin

American Roots: Music of the Moravians

This concert of music from the pacifist community offered a meaningful alternative to the usual July Fourth celebration

"...community kept a large library of works by the Bach family, Mozart, and Haydn, among others, and the works..."

July 4, 2014 Arts Review by Natalie Zeldin

comPassion

In its latest festival, Conspirare finds passions thriving in 21st century music

"...Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion may be one of the most..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Bach Plus: Elegant Craft, Ardent Expression, Conspirare..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

Immortal Guardian Prepares for Revolution

Mobile prog/extreme metal quintet takes to the streets

"...album with Roy Z, who produced Judas Priest, Sebastian Bach, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickenson, and Helloween. We finished it..."

March 24, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Letters at 3AM – Manifesto: A Radical Aesthetics

Get stuff out there; work with cause: That's the genesis of LettersAt3amPress

"...was a hunchbacked dwarf with long fingers who played Bach and wrote brilliant essays from 1911 to 1918, when..."

March 21, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Kinesthetic Imperative

Dance Repertory Theatre's latest program took audiences on a journey from light to dark

"...suffer from violinist Hye Jin Chang's weak performance of Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor; the dancers didn't..."

March 14, 2014 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Your Menuhin Winners

Fukuda, Waarts take first in young violinist competition

"...that's not all: He was also recognized with the Bach Prize ($1,500), for the best performance of a work..."

March 4, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

The Glass Project

The music of Philip Glass in the three works of Ballet Austin's program provided more thread than theme

"...was there to play the music, piano pieces by Bach and Glass. Conjecture: Perhaps it's the (once again) return..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The Menuhin Competition 2014

"...Bach's Double Violin Concerto, Vivaldi's Flute Concerto No. 3, and..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Arts Feature

Sonobeat Records

Late-Sixties local label Sonobeat – the missing link between the Vulcan Gas Company and Stubb's?

"...Records in 1967. The Lee Arlano Trio, Vietnamese singer Bach Yen, and jazz vocalist Fran Nelson added traditional appeal..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Gay Place

Old friends bring new art to new gallery, and it's Q as all get-out

"...what that means: Getcher powdered wig on. Last year, Bach. This year, Mozart. Sat., Feb. 8, 8pm-12mid. Butterfly Bar..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

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

Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom ‘Cutz’ New Music

Chris Searles revisits the cult local trio’s salad years

"...According to Searles, Twang Twang worshiped everything from Mahler, Bach, and Debussy to Miles, Monk, and Coltrane; from Eydie..."

Dec. 10, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Fall for Dance

Dance Repertory Theatre's program was divided between live and canned music, with the live half clearly deeper

"...the deeper half with a 21st century nuzzling against Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor. Violinist Molly Emerman's..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Texas Choral Consort

Double-barreled Requiem concert brings back Brahms and resurrects more Undead Mozart

"...Chronicle: Your Partita for 8 Voices takes inspiration from Bach. What different compositional muscles did you have to exercise..."

Aug. 16, 2013 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

Heavenly Hyrulian Harmonies

'Legend of Zelda' goes symphonic

"...on the NES, which used pieces from Handel and Bach, respectively. The fact that orchestral music translated well with..."

July 2, 2013 Screens Post by Sean Carey

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

Fit for a King: J.S. Bach's Musical Offering

La Follia's well-crafted program of music by Bach exposed the energetic and dynamic Baroque spirit

"...Fit for a King: J.S. Bach's 'Musical Offering'First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa April 7..."

April 12, 2013 Arts Review by Natalie Zeldin

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

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