Soccer Watch

"...high school championships are this weekend, April 18-21 at Birkel­bach Field in Georgetown – games pretty much all day..."

April 20, 2018 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Get in the Spirit of Spring With These Classic Movies

Our critics poke their noses out after winter

"...("Toccata and Fugue in D minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach), the adorable (Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite") and your good ol'..."

April 7, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Seen / Soon: March 16

Getting virtually swept away by A Colossal Wave! and hearing America singing via Bill Murray and Jan Vogler

"...on their recording New Worlds, on which Vogler played Bach and Piazzolla, Murray read poetry by Whitman and prose..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Column

Five Arty Things to Do: Jan. 5-7

Apocalypse indefinitely postponed; go out, have some fun

"...can get some Classical Baroque going with their annual Bach’s Herd of Harpsichords gig. Which glorious event, note, tends..."

Jan. 4, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Holiday Viewing: TV Christmas Episodes

Celebrate the season in Sunnydale, the Oval Office, and more

"...triggers – an incident with a suicidal pilot, bagpipes, Bach’s “Cello Suite No.1 in G Major” – that escalate..."

Dec. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...story, although with a classical soundtrack that includes J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor it can feel..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Rabbit

Fantastic Fest 2017 preview

"...and Beethoven, we go to the Baroque era with Bach, "Air on the G String." We go through those..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Seen / Soon Sept. 15

Winding up 11:11's 11 dances in 11 months and preparing to go string quartet off-roading with invoke and Beerthoven

"...string quartet and the first piano quintet by P.D.Q. Bach "scholar" Peter Schickele. All this, plus beer from Lazarus..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Arts Column

Greezy Wheels Take a Last Bow

Still Greezy after all these years

"...who formed the band in 1970. "It's swamp, it's Bach, it's everything. Every song is its own universe, so..."

June 23, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Show That Never Ends: The Rise & Fall of Prog Rock

"...in 1960s genus pioneers including Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Bach) and Yes (Stravinsky). Another British Invasion, this one populated..."

June 16, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

"Maria Chávez: String Room"

With this interactive sound installation, it’s hard to tell whether it’s more about music or not-music

"...to climb inside a massive pipe organ and play Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor from the inside..."

April 28, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Luv Doc: Crock-Pot Potpourri

In which the Luv Doc gives a one-word answer

"...dance at the bookstore, whether they're playing Bowie or Bach. At art museums, I sometimes find myself in a..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Austin Opera Takes Aim at the Election With Its Adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate

Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell shoot to thrill in their opera based on Richard Condon's Cold War classic

"...tickets for the top spot in early classical music: Bach and Mozart vs. Handel and Haydn. You listen to..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Politics Upstaged

This election year brings out the political in Austin's arts

"...tickets for the top spot in early classical music: Bach and Mozart v. Handel and Haydn. You listen to..."

Sept. 13, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Words and Music

This year's Austin Chamber Music Festival and Austin Classical Guitar summer series really get lit

"...Cortázar alternate with musical works by the likes of Bach, Reich, Britten, Piazzolla, and Austin's Joseph V. Williams II..."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Classical Guitar Narratives Series

"...the messiness of process with process-driven music by J.S. Bach, Astor Piazzolla, Steve Reich, and others. Artists include New..."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Keith Womer, Start the New Year With Bach! Ensemble..."

May 27, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Year of the Booster

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Instrumentalist Keith Womer, Start the New Year With Bach..."

May 25, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Soccer Watch

"...next weekend's state tournament in George­town, April 13-16 at Birkel­bach Field. www.uiltexas.org/soccer for more info...."

April 8, 2016 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Magdalena Jarkowiec's Us Kids Are Alone in the House

The Austin-based choreographer is home alone with her soft-sculpture mutants

"...the shape of turkey drumsticks, doing ballet steps to Bach...."

March 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The Witching Hour

Chorus Austin unearthed a vast repertoire of music – gorgeous, frightening, and comedic – that speaks to mortality and the dead

"...through works centuries old and newly minted – J.S. Bach's "Come, Sweet Death" (1736) matched by the feather-light beauty..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Get Rid of Cornyn

Nov. 3, 2015 Postmarks

Five Faces of Frankenstein

This Halloween, Austin serves up five freaky takes on Mary Shelley's mad doctor and his monster

"...The concert also features Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Bach's Toccata and Fugue...."

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nina on Netflix

Simone leads a chorus of music docs streaming online

"...hoped to become the nation’s first black champion of Bach and his ilk. Like Georgian Ray Charles (1930-2004) and..."

July 29, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate

"...Breedlove, La Femme BohèmeJulie Taylor, La Femme BohèmeNick Zammit, Bach vs. Handel Smackdown..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Femme Bohème Julie Taylor, La Femme Bohème Nick Zammit, Bach Vs. Handel Smackdown..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gay Place: Do You Feel So Used?

Well, OK, if it's aGLIFF, sure ...

"...out that powdered whatsit, and get down with your Bach-self with the tuneful stylings of Lacy Rose & Her..."

April 17, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Director's Choice

Jennifer Hart's first commission for Ballet Austin was this triple bill's highlight

"...Mills' 2001 One/the body's grace, a moody sextet to Bach, Handel, and Gluck, is a good neoclassical dance –..."

April 3, 2015 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

SXSW Live Shot: Victim Mentality

Korea Night II: The Revenge of Glam Metal

"...swagger than Cinderella’s Tom Keifer and Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach combined. The crowd roared its approval and Victim Mentality..."

March 21, 2015 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Shout OUT: Jen Mulhern

These are the people in our gayborhood: The silence between the beats

"...beatbox, and a kazoo, her arsenal combines everything from Bach to Bjork to create a sound that is at..."

Jan. 28, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Blake McCoy

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