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

German Masters Hoot Night

Club de Ville, Aug. 15

"...then launched into some freewheeling versions of Handel and Bach, with some chopped beats added in as background. Golden..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

A Shadow of Light

Musicians get away with revamping one another's work all the time – and it's great

"...music. You get Arvo Pärt on medieval chant, J.S. Bach on a Lutheran hymn, Felix Mendelssohn on Bach, and..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Early to Rise

Daniel Johnson loves early music's purity of sound and intimacy, and he's not alone

"...and 19th centuries. "There's a thing about doing a Bach B Minor Mass with a choir of 300 that..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Moog: A Revolution in Sound

"...Carlos (then Walter Carlos) and her debut, 1968's Switched-On Bach, to bring Moog's invention into the mainstream. Carlos' renditions..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Verdi: Messa da Requiem

Conspirare's performance of the Verdi work provided a blazing vision of Judgment Day and a transcendent glimpse of glory

"...massed voices of the Conspirare Symphonic Choir, the Victoria Bach Festival Chorus, and the Texas State University Choirs –..."

June 27, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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

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

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

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

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

Midsummer Night's Renaissance

Conspirare's midsummer concert of choral works from the Renaissance provided yet another example of enchanting song by this local treasure

"...composer Philippe Hersant, "Aus Tiefer Not," taken from a Bach cantata and rendered into something quite new. To allow..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Articulations

Choreographer Deborah Hay is welcomed home from New York, Doyle Bramhall rocks the house at Zach, and new plans for the Long Center are being unveiled

"...century makes. In my plug for the Budjanova Quartet's Bach birthday concert, I claimed that Johann Sebastian was turning..."

April 9, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Back to Josquin

Texas Early Music Project Director Danny Johnson on the 15th-century composer he keeps returning to.

"...admiration for Josquin runs deep. He compares him to Bach, Beethoven, 20th-century serial composer Anton Webern, and the Beatles...."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Japón

"...historical pageants or Buñuel’s Los Olvidados. Choirlike music by Bach, Shostakovich, and others often swells on the soundtrack along..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2002-2003

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony, Victoria Bach Festival..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ah, Sweet Air!

The 2002 Austin Chamber Music Festival

"...Serenade for Strings by Dvorak. 7:30pm, First Unitarian.July 1: Bach to Big Band Bluebonnet Brass performs works by Gabrieli,..."

June 28, 2002 Arts Feature

Jubilee Jewels

Modern chamber pieces by such composers as Leos Janácek, Joseph Jongen, Andre Jolivet, and Harald Genzmer received a good airing at Austin Chamber Music Festival's Jubilee Jewel concert..

"...than the classical two-violin/viola/cello quartet paying serious homage to Bach, Brahms, and Beethoven, the Austin Chamber Music Center has..."

July 13, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Diary of a Country Priest

"...film of great purity and, at the end, of Bach-like intensity.”..."

Sept. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Book Reviews

Reviews of Recent Fiction and Nonfiction

"...in cold blood. There's your black hat. Add Ingrid Bach (this one's complicated), daughter of a German industrialist and..."

May 19, 2000 Books Feature by Mike Shea

Small Screen, Big Ideas

The Territory Begins A New Season

"...Seeking Bach (Oct. 31)..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Goodbye Lover

"...covering for his brother at the agency and playing Bach (and schtupping Sandra) at the local church. Also in..."

April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

10 in Focus

Alma

"...artists to collaborate with him on interpretations of the Bach Cello Suites. He asked dancers, choreographers, and then he..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Making Joyful Noises

Mr. Holland's Opus

"...without words. He has put an instrumental piece by Bach on the phonograph. His girlfriend, the deaf student played..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

How I Learned to Love the Bomb

Awake in the Dark

"...film book, go and secure a copy of Steven Bach's Final Cut. Bach was a production executive at United..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature by Patrick Taggart

A Great Day in Harlem

This hourlong documentary is the fascinating story of a photograph that captures 57 New York City jazz musicians on a Harlem brownstone stoop one summer morning in 1958.

"...Directed by: Jean Bach. This hourlong documentary is the story of a photograph:..."

June 16, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crossroads, Crafts, and Close Encounters in Our Recommended Events

The workweek is chockablock with do-able things

"...Writer/director Sandra Goldbacher’s criminally underrated 2001 film is equal parts love letter..."

May 16, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

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