Red Dirt Country

Johnny Solinger's pie in the sky

"...Replacing Sebastian Bach was no small chore, so the New Jersey boys..."

April 8, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Water

Don't come to this movie expecting a doom-and-gloom forecast about ecological catastrophe. It's instead an encounter with "voodoo chemistry" that aims to show why we all should start imbibing "structurized water."

"..."gratitude" make pretty images, as does the music of Bach and Mozart; heavy metal music warps water's crystalline shapes,..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Slow Motion Sound

"...up in an age when you can listen to Bach and listen to Radiohead, and that’s just the way..."

March 15, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

Vitality: A Baroque Thanksgiving: Music to give thanks by

Opening your concert season on Thanksgiving weekend might seem odd, but it's worked out well for Chamber Soloists of Austin

"...14 musicians will participate in Vitality, playing pieces by Bach, Vivaldi, and Telemann, two of whom were employed as..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Man With the Light Touch

Peter Bay leads the Austin Symphony with the finesse of Astaire

"...The Austin Symphony Orchestra performs the Bach Magnificat and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony Nov. 16 and 17,..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Conspirare: My favorite year

In a banner year, Conspirare signs with the prestigious Harmonia Mundi label and plans a powerful Long Center debut with the Verdi Requiem

"...bringing up some musicians and vocalists from the Victoria Bach Festival, where he's also the artistic director, to perform..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Les Enfants Terribles'

"...Jean-Pierre Melville? Besides an enveloping tide of Vivaldi and Bach? Cocteau has the answer: "Beauty enjoys immense privileges --..."

July 27, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

And the Award Goes to ...

The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Achievement in Cooperative Music-makingSt. Cecilia Music Series for the Bach Christmas OratorioTakin' It to the Streets AwardMeredith Powell and..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Outstanding!

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Nuevo Tangos of Astor Piazzolla, Austin Chamber Music CenterChoral ConcertBach: Christmas Oratorio, St. Cecilia Music Series..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ah, Wilderness!

Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, is given a lavish treatment at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre, resulting in a dream production full of bright, endearing charm

"...is like listening to the stentorian clarity of a Bach fugue played on a jangling player piano. Despite this,..."

April 20, 2007 Arts Review by Iris Brooks

Bach Vocal Music: His wondrous way with the human voice, exhibits A and B

Bach is in the air most splendidly this week, in concerts by La Follia and UT's Chamber Singers that testify anew to the composer's magnificent way with the human voice

"...Lent needn't be all sackcloth and ashes, not when Bach is in the air, and he is most splendidly..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Plays Well With Others

Why Michelle Schumann is meant to be running the Austin Chamber Music Center

"...played two other festivals this summer, too: the Victoria Bach Festival and the Snake River Chamber Music Festival in..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Black Belly of the Tarantula

"...in a row: Barbara Bouchet, Claudine Auger, and Barbara Bach quiver throughout, awash in giddy anxiety, anticipating everything bad..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

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

TCB

TCB scales the Wall of Sound festival at Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater

"...with a robotic, caffeinated upstairs set that indirectly evoked Bach, hip-hop, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah as the..."

April 14, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

A Shostakovich Primer

"...piano, the Preludes and Fugues, which were inspired by Bach, are a good place to start. [Shostakovich: 24 Preludes..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature

Shostakovich 100 Schedule

"...on piano, on a program with works by Telemann, Bach, and Bartok. Feb. 11, 8pm, at First Presbyterian Church,..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Color and Brightness

Gift guide

"...off-putting sometimes; then again, our parents' generation read Richard Bach. It'd be nice to be a seagull, but my..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Books Feature by Nora Ankrum

Culture Flash

Calling all Eastside artists, here come the Russians, visual artists talk residency programs, and Steven Dietz comes to UT

"...in mime and dance based on work by Richard Bach. VSA arts director Celia Hughes worked with six partners..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Essential Chopin: A Genius Displaced

In advance of her Oct. 30 program, the Essential Chopin, pianist Mary Robbins talks about Chopin and Mozart, and what makes for essential Chopin

"...When he was a little boy, Chopin slept with Bach and Mozart under his pillow. For his funeral, he..."

Oct. 28, 2005 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

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar weighs in on Daisy Duke, life's rich (Republican???) pageant(s), and the passing of a style great. Read on!

"...the red bikinis, and I had to do Catherine Bach proud." Daisy Duke. Icon. In the same sentence. There..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Finding Light in Shadow

Conspirare sings of deep hope in the midst of great suffering

"...is available, when we could collaborate with the Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra, etc. Shortly after we decided on the..."

June 17, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

May I Have the Envelope, Please?

The 2004-2005 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Miró Quartet (Yamamoto, Gindele, with Gregory Allen)Choral ConcertPathways to Bach, Texas Early Music ProjectOperaDella's Gift/Holy Night, UT Opera TheatreSinger,..."

June 10, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...Pathways to Bach, Texas Early Music ProjectOpera..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Degrees from Beethoven

UT pianist Anton Nel, figuratively descended from a line of teachers beginning with Beethoven

"...of the 19th century, after Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and Bach were all dead, that the piano reached its final..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

The Concerts

"...of his life, absorbed it all. While composers like Bach, Schubert, and Liszt cranked out music by the truckload,..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Music Feature

Hark! The Herald Organ Sings

New UT faculty members and exceptional organists Gerre and Judith Hancock give the mighty Visser- Rowland organ a workout with their own holiday concert

"...husband. He'll be performing works by Messiaen and J.S. Bach, topping them all off with an improvisation on Joy..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Baroque Festival Concert II

Despite many glorious moments in St. Cecilia Music Series' Baroque Festival Concert II, there was evidence throughout that the musicians may have taken on too much

"...in "Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, which sounded under-rehearsed, but baritone Bruce Cain..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

It Is Risen

The newly restored 'Heaven's Gate' plays the Paramount

"...much more complicated, of course (we recommend reading Steven Bach's Final Cut for the whole giddily ridiculous picture), but..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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