The Word Made Song

Gospel Music in Austin

"...-- Psalms 100:1-3..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Feature

Orchestrating Partnerships

Maestro Peter Bay likes to play with others – especially when they're outside the orchestra

"..."I was really headstrong about doing [Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms]. It's a piece I've loved for a long, long..."

May 4, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, Austin Choirs Seek Community Through Virtual Worship

Music remains an integral part of most religions, so what happens when the choir can't meet?

"...man after God's heart and majority composer of the Psalms, King David worshipped with exuberance. When the Ark of..."

July 10, 2020 Music Feature by Nataleah Small

Songs of a New Race, Sung Again

A celebration of African-American chamber music from the Austin Chamber Music Center and Huston- Tillotson College

"...Still's Suite for Violin and Piano and Patrice Rushen's Psalms. Faculty and students in the music department at Huston-Tillotson..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

When the Long Night Comes

"...the Old Testament and reading various translations of the Psalms, I had found no good explanation for the word..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

The Luv Doc: Beware the Righteous

Way worse than robots

"...Question is, whose side are you going to be..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Best in Show

The 2012-13 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, Austin Symphony with Conspirare Chamber Performance (tie)..."

June 7, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, Austin Symphony with Conspirare..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 (+1) Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2012

In 2012, dance memorably explored profound topics, and classical embraced Charlie Brown and George Washington

"...as conductors fascinated, but the reading of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms made heaven ring...."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Writing's Not on the Wall Yet

Austin's print culture gets a boost from a new batch of indie presses and literary magazines

"...would take my little flashlight and I would read psalms and proverbs. Then I'd write my own short stuff..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Krewe Kuts: Pride Edition

The Gay Place Krewe has the final word on Austin Pride.

"...he sat on a stool with a sign proclaiming Psalms 19:20. TLDR: The wicked are going to hell...."

Oct. 8, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Baroness

"...("Collapse"), lush acoustic guitars ("Stretchmarker"), and even Radiohead unease ("Psalms Alive"). Perfect. (Baroness plays Fun Fun Fun Fest at..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Wax Encaustic Group Show

The melted materials employed here make for a hellishly good show

"...Psalms 73:26, Proverbs 5:22-23, Jeremiah 17:5. I'll be damned (heh)..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Off the Record

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2010: No rain, no dust, no problem

"...issuing ecstatic tales of West Texas and biblical wrath ("Psalms 40:2") that reigned triumphant in the inspirational "This Year."..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Getting Bitter All The Time

Daniel Clowes' new book presents a cretin with a heart of, well, flesh.

"...simplicity of message. “What is man,” asks the Bible’s Psalms, “that thou art mindful of him?” Wilson is Wilson,..."

July 2, 2010 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...shall surround me with songs of deliverance – Psalms 32:7..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sam Baker

"...Prine, toil unglamorously, overlooked save for Baker's rough, sing-talk psalms giving them fitting voice. Cotton likewise finds its muse..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Secular Cinema in the Holy Land

Screenwriter Noah Stollman talks about how to make a movie about Jerusalem without taking on 2,000 years of tumult

"...said Mosaic law, circumcision, the Temple of Solomon, the Psalms of David, the movies, the Great American Songbook, Your..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

A Revolution of Spirit

Ritual jazz theatre pioneer Sharon Bridgforth premieres a new work, her last in Austin

"...the Song of Solomon from the Bible – the Psalms. They were so beautiful that they moved me to..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Abe Louise Young

Off the Record

The best things in life are free, at least on Red River for the first week of January

"...signee, Pack of Wolves, set fire to a few psalms from Lamb of God's New American Gospel, adding a..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Night Does Not Mean an End

Will Oldham's dark joy

"...Field There’s a Mole” plays calmly like modern folk psalms, braced with a gentle jazz clarinet as Oldham delivers..."

July 11, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

UT Chamber Singers/Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble: Vox Americana redux

American choral music earns more big love in 2007 with back-to-back concerts of American vocal works by the UT Chamber Singers and the Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble

"...Copland, George Mead, and Mark Wilberg to Lukas Foss' Psalms and Vincent Persichetti's Mass to Irving Fine's The Hour-Glass,..."

March 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

ACL Fest Live Shots

Sunday, Sept. 17, Zilker Park

"...rest of the set found Matisyahu swinging between wailing psalms and dancehall chants, including a more than capable double-time..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Page Two: Earth, Stones, and Thorns of the Wild Ground Growing

The poetry of the right-wing soul: an appreciation

"...way of aesthetic: holier-than-thee-and-thou, poetic preaching. These are like psalms, holy visions offered down from the gods – not..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Guy Forsyth

Record review

"...conviction drips from his fifth long player. Joining passion psalms about love at first sight ("Beautiful Mistake") and mother-child..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Music Review by David Lynch

Our Country Mapped in Music

The Austin Symphony's concert with Grantham's Southern Harmony, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin's Second Rhapsody gives audiences a chance to hear how some composers describe an American sense of place through music

"..."Singin' Billy" Walker. "A choice collection of tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems," as its title page reads, the..."

March 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Cry Pitch Carrolls

The Cry Pitch Carrolls uses three crotchety old widows, a homeless mother and child, and a poodle to address the darker shadows of religion and memory, and Salvage Vanguard Theater's revival of Ruth Margraff's opera is a plush, cloudlike dream.

"...Golden Arm Trio plays succulent melodies lingering between nostalgic psalms and coarse vibrations that seem plucked from a soul's..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

The GOP's Inaugurama

"...also lightly mined the Bible, his text not the Psalms but Isaiah. Perry compared, perhaps just a tad blasphemously,..."

Jan. 24, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

United We Paint

On Monday, December 3, 53 members of the community came to the UT Performing Arts Center to create a giant American flag for display outside Bass Concert Hall.

"...the republic to be safe] and the Book of Psalms' "So teach us to number our days that we..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Re: Resisting Evildoers

Defense against one's enemies presents a conflict for individuals who identify themselves as members of a Christian society instructed to turn the other cheek.

"...is to attain Paradise. A Jew may read the psalms of the warrior-priest David, who constantly calls upon the..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

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