Texas Choral Consort

Double-barreled Requiem concert brings back Brahms and resurrects more Undead Mozart

"...rest, their forgiveness, their entry into paradise. But in Texas Choral Consort's upcoming program featuring a pair of Requiems,..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Creation

Texas Choral Consort's performance of Haydn's masterwork reawakened one's sense of life in all its immense variety

"...natural world and universe. Which is what made the Texas Choral Consort performance of Franz Joseph Haydn's The Creation..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

A Cathedral Christmas

The Texas Choral Consort's holiday concert was a tale of two choirs: one inspired, the other flat

"...freezing, a lively crowd joined the members of the Texas Choral Consort in the pews of the cozy Central..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Consummate Artistry

The 2013-14 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Mechs' Fixing King John; Theatre En Bloc's Fat Pig; Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance's Anything Goes;..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A German Requiem

Texas Choral Consort's performance proved how strikingly different Brahms' Requiem is and how compassionate

"...life. It was a striking departure from tradition, and Texas Choral Consort's performance proved not just how different a..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Mozart Requiem Undead Receives an Encore

This Austin-generated reinvention comes to Bass Concert Hall

"...idea with an enthusiastic Brent Baldwin, newly ensconced as Texas Choral Consort's artistic director. "The concept," says Baldwin, "was..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2014

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

"...1) MOZART REQUIEM UNDEAD (Golden Hornet Project/Texas Choral Consort/Texas Performing Arts/Fusebox Festival) An overflow crowd at..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Steve Parker's Song for Bat / Man

For this year's Fusebox, composer Steve Parker flies a batty Austin concert with live echolocation

"...to do something with voice, so we have the Texas Choral Consort with Brent Baldwin, and there's going to..."

April 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...nominations. Four productions captured six nods apiece: Zach Theatre’s Texas premiere of the Robert Schenkkan political drama All the..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

Viva l'Opera!

A rollicking tone made this choral salute to opera's greatest hits an entertaining evening

"...the evening had been set. Those in attendance at Texas Choral Consort's concert of operatic standards knew that they..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Golden Hornet Project: Wolfgang-nam Style

'Amadeus' screening fundraiser for 'Mozart's Requiem Undead'

"...Luther Adams' drum-kit opera Ilimaq, which was commissioned by Texas Performing Arts. (Reynolds insists that no incriminating photographs of..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Somebody Called, Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Charged Up

The 10th Fusebox Festival gets off to an electric start with 'Mozart Requiem Undead'

"...conjured by Mozart Requiem Undead, the "reanimation" of that choral masterwork with all the parts not written by Mozart..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Shadow of Light

Musicians get away with revamping one another's work all the time – and it's great

"...reinvention, it's a big part of musical literature, and Texas Choral Consort Artistic Director Brent Baldwin has built the..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Road to Freedom

The Cost of Art III: How the Fusebox Festival liberated itself from charging admission

"...that money didn't flow through us. Golden Hornet Project, Texas Performing Arts, Texas Choral Consort, the French Legation, [and..."

July 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Top 10 (+1) Dance Classical Music Treasures of 2013

In 2013, dance and classical music were distinguished by their breadth of expression and eloquence

"...1) 'MOZART DANCES' (Mark Morris Dance Group/Texas Performing Arts) Startlingly virtuosic dance, so spectacularly in sync..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...productions are distinguished less by the spectacle seen at Texas big guns like Houston Grand Opera than by stirring..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Mozart Requiem Undead'

April 16, 2014. 10 photos.

"...Texas Choral Consort Artistic Director Brent Baldwin (left) and Golden..."

April 17, 2014 Photo Gallery

Forte at Forty

Thriving under Jack Allen's leadership, KMFA endures as Classically Austin radio

"...Austin Lyric Opera, the Austin Civic Orchestra, Conspirare, the Texas Choral Consort, and the Austin Chamber Music Center...."

July 6, 2007 Arts Feature by Katherine Gregor

Austin Critics Table Awards 2014

"...Composer Peter Stopschinski accepts the Choral Performance Award for "Mozart Requiem Undead"..."

June 3, 2014 Photo Gallery

Best in Show

The 2012-13 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...evenly. Ten projects were recognized with two awards each: Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance's Urinetown: The..."

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

"...the Henry VI saga: Richard III, staged by the Texas State University Department of Theatre and Dance. It also..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Show, Austin Chamber Music Center Medieval Pilgrimage in Iberia, Texas Early Music Project Pléiades, line upon line percussion The..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Culture Connectors

The 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...– such as the recent "Through the Eyes of Texas" or the Austin Critics Table Award winners "Desire" and..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Panoramic Voices’ Bach: Mass in B Minor

Director Brent Baldwin and his chorus made this work of pure uplift – rousing to sing, delightful to hear – a joy to experience

"...by the rousing men's voices that introduced a second full-choral "Kyrie." Or a coquettish "Laudamus te," sung by Ruduski..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

"It Was a Difficult Choice, But..."

The Austin Critics Table named its tops in the arts for 2014

"...Choral Performance..."

June 3, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Butler School of Music

Two concerts – one by Harvey Pittel, one for the late Rose Taylor – pay tribute to 'living in a song'

"...33 years on the faculty of the University of Texas' music school, the other in memory of mezzo-soprano Rose..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

KMFA Premieres Icons of Broadway

Classical station's new show salutes musical theatre legends

"...Austin Chamber Music Center, Austin Symphony Orchestra, Chorus Austin, Texas Choral Consort, and the Capital City Men's Chorus, as..."

July 10, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Free Rangin' Excitement

Announcing the lineup for Fusebox Festival's 10th edition

"...Mozart's final work and finish them themselves. Project partner Texas Choral Consort will provide the singers, and Artistic Director..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Classically Speaking

Focusing on Haydn and Mozart, La Follia did a lovely job linking classical to baroque

"...of Haydn and Mozart. Much in the vein of Texas Choral Consort's Viva L'Opera! concert opening last week (sans..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

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