Final Flowering

With Cold Sassy Tree, distinguished composer Carlisle Floyd crafts an opera to crown his lengthy career.

"...of artistry and craft at work in this new opera by Carlisle Floyd. Character, atmosphere, mood, dramatic tension --..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arias From Death Row

In conjunction with its production of the opera Dead Man Walking, Austin Lyric Opera will present a seminar focusing on the unlikely journey of her story about providing spiritual counsel to a convicted murderer on death row to the operatic stage.

"...music and sung from the stages of the world's opera halls. And yet that's just what has happened; as..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...lungs and heart. It's an unlikely setting for an opera, even one that deals, as so many operas do,..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cold Sassy Tree

The Austin Lyric Opera production of Cold Sassy Tree, Carlisle Floyd's sweet, simple opera of blooming love between a small-town Georgia shopkeeper and a much younger woman, featured a fine ensemble giving heartwarming performances, but their efforts were repeatedly wrecked by poorly executed set changes that brought the show to a halt.

"...It is appalling and unforgivable that Austin Lyric Opera could take Carlisle Floyd's sweet Southern tale and wreck..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Austin Theatre Critics Table 2000-2001 Nominations

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

"...The Baltimore Waltz, UT Dept. Theatre & Dance..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature

10 in Focus

Alma

"...Carmen Nogales) is a popular and successful Mexican soap opera star. Yet her obsession in life is to compete..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

SXSW List No. 8

Chvrches, Mike Watt, MSTRKRFT, and 123 more

"...Internet have all been tapped for appearances. So have Baltimore indie rock lovelies Wye Oak, trap producer Swizzymack, veteran..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Y Ask X and Y?

"...from each of its audience members. Coined a "cybernetic opera," this trio of trance-music musical dramas -- The Black..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Where Everything Is Music

"...Digital image from the "Monsters of Grace" cyberopera...."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Art, Eggs, Kink, and Sleaze in This Weekend’s Art Events

Recommended happenings for your calendar consideration

"...stars. Full name Dorothy Karen, “Cookie” Mueller was a Baltimore native who played perfectly into John Waters’ underground universe..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Music List 10

The Damned, 2 Chainz, War on Drugs, and 242 more added

"...The Black Opera (Detroit/Atlanta/Chicago/NewYork/L.A.)..."

March 6, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good

"...and the rest of the sundae ain't bad either. Baltimore duo Wye Oak's third and latest, Civilian, melts sweet,..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...packs a Lower East Side art-punk tradition on the Baltimore quintet's latest, All Around, one of last year's finest..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Jennifer Higdon, American Voice

One of this nation's most acclaimed and active composers, on our rich melting pot of music

"...Low Brass Concerto (co-commissioned with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony), and the Del Suono Trio released its recording..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Man With the Light Touch

Peter Bay leads the Austin Symphony with the finesse of Astaire

"...age of 23, Bay took first prize in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition and seven years later..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Knocking 'em Dead in the Streets

"...Spain, which is a helluva lot farther away than Baltimore -- where Hunter Darby has announced plans to move..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...Eve, newly sober Cliff embarks on an adventure through Baltimore with Didi, his emergency dentist. Cast: Michael Strassner, Liz..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Star Parks' New Album Proves Prescient in These Uncertain Times

Sophomore LP, The New Sounds of Late Capitalism captures our suddenly insecure moment

"..."A lot of times it feels like an opera would, or like the prelude to an old movie..."

April 3, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Holiday Viewing: Diner

Or how I fell in love with Mickey Rourke

"...New Year’s Day, drew from his teenage memories in Baltimore in the late Fifties to evoke a sense of..."

Dec. 16, 2017 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Austin Chamber Music Festival: Marian Anderson String Quartet

At the end of a tragic week, the Marian Anderson String Quartet reached for grace and tendered it to us

"...Baton Rouge on Sunday – or of Ferguson or Baltimore or any of the other communities that have been..."

July 15, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...fills provided Deep Purple pathos to Watt's semi-autobiographical rock opera based on Dante's Inferno. A pensive cover of "Shit..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Some East (Maybe Mars), some West (UK Trade & Investment), all South by Southwest

"...tunes reminiscent of a hooky, denser Talking Heads. Clock Opera is an eclectic fourpiece led by former "pop-chop" guru..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

ACL Music Fest Friday Interview

Proving the suede-to-silk theory

"...At a sold-out Emo's show in April, Baltimore's Beach House proved evolution in action. More specifically, it..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...to the true blue classics, the Hong Kong Blood Opera serves up its punk rock hard and fast, still..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Top 10 Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2006

"...jobs, Star Wars, and, most hilariously, the invented soap opera Harbor Cove, this Rudes premiere was wickedly entertaining. But..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...rhythms and humid riffs. In Earthride, as in their Baltimore HQ, hardcore is the heart, lumbering and Southern, Dave..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and that hard rock bullshit to them ["Southern Rock Opera," Music, March, 22, 2002]? I'm from Minnesota and feel..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...comedy (his Payne and Critics Table wins for The Baltimore Waltz came for a role that is as broadly..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...in less than two years, inking a deal with Baltimore's Temporary Residence, home of challenging instrumental acts Sonna and..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

In Search of Marcel Proust

Once UT's Dr. Seth Wolitz discovered Proust, he didn't turn back, but it took a real beating for him to get to that point.

"...get out and we drove like crazy up to Baltimore. A good hour and 15 minutes and that's when..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Sidney Moody

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