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Ancient voices, singing strings, and lots of Bach made 2011 a fine year for ears

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

The nominees for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

Classical companies respond to the economic crisis before the fat lady can sing

Chronicle Arts writer Michael Kellerman recalls 2008, in classical music

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

Austin's new performing-arts center releases the performance schedule for its first few months

Ballet Austin's bill of 'One / the body's grace' and 'Carmina Burana' provided a living spectacle of sound and motion that evoked the pleasure in what it means to be human

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

Robert Faires lists his favorite theatre, dance, and classical productions of 2004

Stephen Mills in Montreal, Conspirare in the studio, the Blanton's first Impressionist painting, and party for the Texas Biennial

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

The singular, compelling choral music of the Baltic Sea countries has grown in popularity, so Conspirare is exploring the region's sounds in Cool Blue, its first concert of 2004

The Conspirare choir can do anything, from communicating a work's sonorous beauty to delivering well-placed, carefully planned emotional punches, and they did both in their recent performance of the Bach B Minor Mass.

To accompany the screening of Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein's 1938 epic film about the 13th-century Russian hero and the army he led to defeat a German invasion, maestro Peter Bay led his own army -- some 200 musicians from the Austin Symphony and Conspirare choir -- that performed Prokofiev's epic score with grandeur and a stirring power.

Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay has tremendous regard for both Sergei Prokofiev's score and Sergei Eisenstein's images for the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, and as he prepares for a live performance of the score as the film is being shown, he talks about this remarkable fusion of image and music and what's involved in performing it live.

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

May

Much outstanding new dance and music this year took its cue from the world around us and pressing social issues

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

The richest work in dance and classical music this year ran the gamut from a dance in a backyard pool to an opera about Cold War brainwashing

The service organization moves beyond talk with four ideas on how the city can expand its cultural infrastructure

Lone Star accolades span country, gospel, folk, and R&B

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Outlaws wanted (for Awards), God calls back Gean West, and SXSW wristbands back on sale!

It was a year in which the personal shone through in dance and classical works small and large

Austin Chamber Music Center's lessons on developing a holiday tradition with A Charlie Brown Christmas

Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts brings waves into the concert hall with new symphonic work

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