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All Over Creation: Hit Where You Live
A recital at a holiday soiree confirms there's no place like home for art
"...comes a sound that slices through the white noise of holiday party chatter like a hot knife through figgy..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

World-Class Trombonist Andre Hayward's Spiritual Journey
"Big Butter" brings his warm sound to Austin
"...melody at first, adding slight variations, before scattering flurries of notes that belie their creator's relaxed state...."

April 2, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

The Thousand-String Guitar
Austin gets the world jazzed about classical guitar
"...Barton Springs, sleeping in. But on this second Tuesday of the month, 11 youths have forsaken the usual rituals..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Queenie Pie
A slice of UT's Duke Ellington opera “Queenie Pie”
"...let the word "opera" scare you. This is a musical. And don’t let the assignation "musical" scare you, either...."

April 21, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Cultural Cancellations and Postponements: The Big List
What's not happening around Austin, arts-wise
"...The Chronicle has been collecting all of the official notices we've received about closings, cancellations, and..."

March 24, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Let Him Entertain You
Why producer Charles Duggan is staging the biggest holiday spectacular Austin's ever seen
"...That's the kind of audacious theatrical effect that you wouldn't expect outside of..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Crosstalk: KMFA Announces Middle Sattre’s Sophie Mathieu as 2024 Composer-in-Residence
While Mange plays final show due to anti-trans legislation
"...a Jan. 23 event at the station’s Draylen Mason Music Studio. Launched in 2022, the initiative seeks to diversify..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

Friday SXSW Picks
"...kids with floppy hair and black clothes to dream of Rob Tyner-style afros and buy used Rush LPs. Always..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Michelle Schumann and Graham Reynolds' Joyful Noise
For their new Austin Chamber Music Center collaboration, the pianist and composer crank up the reverb but good
"...anyone fortunate enough to have seen the Austin Chamber Music Center artistic director play at one of the organization's..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards
For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please
"...in the Continental Club, and the next, a couple of decades have zoomed by, and your casual little awards..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Goes Classical
This week of musical events expanded our sense of what classical guitar can be
"...(and even knowing a bit of his music) and, given its incessant repetition on Top..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

If You Build It ...
Ah, you know the rest
"...big arts story for 2008 was? After 16 years of planning, designing and redesigning, raising millions of dollars, and..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Renaissance Splendour
This enchanting debut proved Ensemble VIII boasts singers of the highest order
"...Chapel of St. Louis Catholic Church, 7601 Burnet Rd...."

May 20, 2011 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Lingua Ignota, Daniel Fears, Mobley, a Doug Sahm celebration, and more worthy local shows
"...Ignota's third LP, Sinner Get Ready, in the Christian music section, causing an unassuming listener to grasp their rosary..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Spectrum Dance Theater’s Rambunctious
The company’s program, with a new work inspired by the 1966 UT Tower shooting, spoke powerfully to our present moment
"...the top-notch New York-based Aeolus Quartet at the University of Texas for two performances of Byrd's dances to music..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Consummate Artistry
The 2013-14 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...Zach Theatre's production of In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play and..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"It Was a Difficult Choice, But..."
The Austin Critics Table named its tops in the arts for 2014
"...Of course, the loose and jokey nature of the Austin..."

June 3, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Awards 2014
"...during the collective's induction into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the Austin Critics Table Awards on June..."

June 3, 2014 Photo Gallery

Best in Show
The 2012-13 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...The Hidden Room Theatre production of Rose Rage was the runaway winner at the Austin..."

June 7, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

String Theory
Generous performances from violinist Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio and pianist Gregory Allen made this an impressive recital
"...The Austin Chamber Music Center's String Theory marked a sort of homecoming for..."

April 19, 2013 Arts Review by Natalie Zeldin

Crown Thy Good
The mood of Revel's inspired performance didn't fade with the final note
"...wasn't going to be your typical salon performance. First off, the performance began at 6pm – intentionally more like..."

March 4, 2011 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

American Repertory Ensemble
Coming soon to a computer or TV screen near you: dance and classical music from ARE?
"...thing is happening, where you can feel the immediacy of it and the exchange of energy between artists and..."

July 24, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Honor Roll
The 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...ceremony, the 16th such presented by this informal association of local arts writers, began with the induction of Margie..."

June 6, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Politics Upstaged
This election year brings out the political in Austin's arts
"...The offerings range from a sketch comedy show that includes serious..."

Sept. 13, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Three More Views
"...• Interdisciplinary theatre artist and educator • Divorced father of two "in a healthy relationship" "[Fatherhood] made me really..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Arts Feature

There's Peter, Never Mind the Wolf
The Golden Hornet Project turns Prokofiev
"...Sergei Prokofiev?..."

Jan. 19, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Opera to Mount Manchurian Candidate
Kevin Puts' take on political thriller opens 2016-17 season
"...American operatic repertoire, as with the recent Carlisle Floyd Of Mice and Men, and he's long been interested in..."

Jan. 27, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

2012-13 Austin Critics Table Awards
June 3, 2013. 21 photos.
"...Composer and Butler School of Music composition professor Donald Grantham, newly inducted..."

June 4, 2013 Photo Gallery

Birthday Suit(e)
Old friends Hanan Alattar and Michelle Schumann tackle the art song artfully
"...through town this past weekend for the Austin Chamber Music Center's latest concert, Birthday Suit(e). For this celebration of..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Anton Nel, Piano, With Martin Burke, Actor
A tremendously memorable day of music that showed the breadth of Nel's skills
"...Anton Nel walked onto the spare stage of Bates Recital Hall in black pants and a bright,..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

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