Miró Quartet and Jorge Caballero

A toast to exceptional musicians with their namesake cocktails in hand

"...up some fine, aged single-malt Scotch with a solo Bach Partita, then the evening closes with a limoncello martini:..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Soccer Watch

Aztex players named to all-conference team, Hope Solo rips Chastain, and more

"...After winning their group with a perfect record, Abby Wam­bach and company move into the quarterfinals Friday against surprise..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Solo Symphony

When maestro Peter Bay was truly conducting, electricity charged this dance he inspired

"...love of music, he conducted an orchestral arrangement of Bach's lilting "Sheep May Safely Graze." After a few minutes,..."

July 20, 2012 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Yankee Baroque

La Follia expanded our sense of our country's founders through the music they heard and sang

"...will displace the work of Vivaldi, Handel, or J.S. Bach at the summit of baroque musical achievement, but that..."

July 6, 2012 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Fast Approaching Swiftly Gone

American Repertory Ensemble's latest conveyed the mood and form of good poetry

"...accompanied a dance trio with the "Sarabanda" of J.S. Bach's Partita No. 2. The dancers wore flat coppery-beige costumes..."

June 1, 2012 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Five O'Clock Land

Closing Encore Records is no walk in the park for Chuck Lokey

"...In used vinyl, Ransom Wilson looks up from his Bach/Telemann suites LP, a flute to his lips, his eyes..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Soccer Watch

World Player of the Year nominees announced, and more

"...are Homare Sawa of World Cup champion Japan, Abby Wam­bach, and Marta...."

Dec. 9, 2011 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Headlines

"...Two of his presidential nomination rivals – Congresswoman Michele Bach­mann and former Sen. Rick Santorum – savaged Perry's 2007..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Feature

Point Austin: Rick Perry, Boy Scientist

When it comes to science, the Inquisition's got nothing on the guv

"...he understands what it was like to be J.S. Bach. But more to the point, had Perry been around..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Stanford Kay and Sarah Ferguson

The patterned squares and rectangles rendered here suggest frozen music

"...some baroquely ornate cathedral, and you likely imagine whatever Bach you may have heard; a pile of once-residential rubble..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Blist'ring Strings

This summer the Austin Chamber Music Festival really brings the heat

"...Johnson Wildflower Center. They've played the Continental Club, for Bach's sake! This isn't just the same old, same old..."

July 8, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Strength in Numbers

Got MilkDrive?

"...that are really kind of taken from people like Bach with different patterns going on. We really started out..."

June 15, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Soccer Watch

Orlando City (ex-Austin Aztex) open play in the new USL Pro league, and more

"...day. Thursday: 4A semifinals; Friday: 5A semifinals; Saturday: finals. Birkel­bach Field behind Georgetown High School, 2275 N. Austin Ave...."

April 8, 2011 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

A Maestro Prepares

Before the baton goes up, conductors have to know the score – every note of it

"...blank piece of music – "blank" would be Mozart, Bach, Haydn, where you have few if any directions –..."

April 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hightower Report

Congress Incorporated; and Mountaintop Tiff

"...power to corporate interests. For example, Alabama Rep. Spencer Bach­us, the new Republican chairman of the Wall Street oversight..."

Feb. 4, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Anton Nel

The star pianist and actor Martin Burke welcome the elephant king

"...to enjoy: works by Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and C.P.E. Bach. But all of us who are still kids at..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Vinyl Ashes

A gray vinyl 7-inch with your exit songs?

"...in the dust you'll lie/With everything you know." B-side: Bach's Mass in B minor (or at least the first..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

December's House of Songs

A partnership between Texas and Danish songwriters yields great music

"...plus fellow Danish artists Anna Bell and Ida Wenoe Bach, Lara Runarsdottir and Johan Kristinsson from Iceland, Norway's Therese..."

Dec. 8, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest by the numbers and Asleep at the Wheel's Top 40

"..."Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," Bach..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Baird To Rule on Recusal From Willingham Hearing

Willingham family seeks posthumous declaration of innocence

"...convicted is "inexplicable." According to Perry's general counsel, Caren Bur­bach, there is no "legal basis" for such a declaration..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Cuando los Disfraces se Cuelgan / Carmina Burana and Kai

Completeness from Delfos Danza Contemporánea, mixed results from Ballet Austin

"...the self. Set to music by Robert Schumann, J.S. Bach, Mario Lavista (Claudia's father), and others, the work demonstrated..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Conspirare

The esteemed choir scores a Dutch Grammy and support for a new commission

"...leading Conspirare in the Duruflé Requiem and the J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor. The former will be sung..."

June 4, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dark Was the Night

Blind Willie Johnson gets his place in history

"...Voyager Golden Record, launched into space in 1977 alongside Bach, Mozart, Chuck Berry, and others to portray the diversity..."

June 2, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Astringent 16th Note Runs

The Fireants' Ian Stewart is accepted to Berklee College of Music

"...violin, a medley of four tunes that had a Bach partita, a breakdown, a Johnny Gimble waltz, and a..."

March 19, 2010 Music Post by Livvy Bennett

So Percussion

If the future is now, then the future of percussion will likely make it So

"...drone into tones stretched like aural latex from a Bach prelude; a small array of digital drum machines and..."

March 19, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

A New Year's Conspirare Classic

A choral welcome to the new year that opened one up to all time and all creation

"...smoothly ascended the scales. Reger's 20th century evocation of Bach then gave way to the real thing: Johann Sebastian's..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

There Will Be Blood

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

"...of Doom. The creepy orchestral sounds culminate with J.S. Bach's Toccata in D Minor. Mon., Oct. 26, 7pm. Austin..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 1821 Club

Tuning in to the future of Austin's music scene today

"...then we realized that all these years of playing Bach for hours on end paid off, giving us skills..."

July 10, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Superlatives

The 2008-2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Victoria Bach Festival Chorus Opera..."

June 5, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Game-Changers

The 2009 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...music you can hear comes from the likes of Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi. But in our town, we're regularly..."

May 29, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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