Austin Arts Hall of Fame: Class of 2013

The Austin Critics Table has honored five more pioneers in the Austin arts community

"...Donald Grantham (University of Texas) – composer, educator..."

May 3, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

String Theory

Generous performances from violinist Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio and pianist Gregory Allen made this an impressive recital

"...Sonata for Violin and Piano by the young Turkish composer Fazil Say capitalizes on a range of extended techniques..."

April 19, 2013 Arts Review by Natalie Zeldin

Fit for a King: J.S. Bach's Musical Offering

La Follia's well-crafted program of music by Bach exposed the energetic and dynamic Baroque spirit

"...who was quite the musical enthusiast himself: a flutist, composer, and collector of instruments – at his Potsdam estate...."

April 12, 2013 Arts Review by Natalie Zeldin

Texas Young Composers Concert

For the third time, the Austin Symphony gives Texas composers under 18 a chance to be heard

"...a few select superstars in the classical music firmament, composers who write orchestral music can almost expect that it..."

March 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Austin Symphony Orchestra

Yolanda Kondonassis joins ASO to show there's much more to harps than angel strumming

"...she describes as having "tons of magical material." The composer employs a full range of tonal colors in the..."

March 8, 2013 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Precious Lloyd

Butler School concert honors African American composer

"...American music, but little attention has gone to the composers who have preserved and developed a place for them..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Think 'New' Music

eighth blackbird helps Texas Performing Arts change how we regard classical

"...powdered wigs writing for the blue-blood-and-lace-ruffle set to of-the-moment composers raised on rock and hip-hop using technology and fusing..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Baby Grand

Visit from stork means shift in Schumann's concert schedule

"...1 & 2 concerts with music by the busiest composer in Austin, Graham Reynolds, although the nature of that..."

Jan. 9, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Have You 'Herd'?

It's another stampede to La Follia's harpsichord concert

"...the Bach harpsichord concerti. Last year, it was the composer's Fourteen Canons on the Goldberg Grounds, a splendid set..."

Jan. 5, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

There's little about this return trip to Middle-earth that feels "unexpected" or fresh.

"...so abundant that one has to wonder if the composer was being paid by the minute...."

Dec. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cloud Atlas

This spellbinding adaptation of a supposedly “unfilmable” novel achieves near-perfection on virtually all levels.

"...chapter set in 1930s Cambridge has a young, gay composer (Whishaw) struggling to pen The Cloud Atlas Sextet, a..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín'

UT symposium honors and ponders art created in the Nazi concentration camp

"...from Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Germany in one location. Painters, composers, singers, musicians, writers, architects, and more passed through the..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback

Crooked Bangs sings en français, Western Medical pulls plug on the big machine, and UtopiaFest finds a soul-stirring hero ankle-deep in the mud.

"...the local trio's dark wave sound forged by primary composer Samantha Wendel, whose guitar progressions come from being self-taught..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

FF2012: Day One of Fantastic Arcade

It's all about money, stories, and nerds.

"...$100,000). Some of that money went to pay in-demand composer Austin Wintory, who just came off his lauded work..."

Sept. 20, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

'Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One)'

A surreal musical recording of the 1940s yields a charming stage spectacle today

"...1940s record album of the same name by jazz composer Robert Scherman. That record is bizarre, combining narration and..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

Jupiter String Quartet

Much masterful playing of works by the masters of the string quartet

"...quartet genre himself, we know that, as a young composer, he spent a great deal of time with those..."

July 6, 2012 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson is back with another delightful movie about beautiful dreamers and full-time schemers.

"...alongside so-lonesome Hank Williams, a Françoise Hardy pop-chanson, and composer Alexandre Desplat's fairy-tale pizzicato scoring. When the storm arrives,..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Moving Toward the Light

On the heels of its balletic colleagues, Chrous Austin melds music and movement to voice the unutterable

"...and theory at the University of Oregon and featured composer of Conspirare's highly acclaimed Renaissance & Response festival last..."

March 30, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...1am, Haven Prolific electronic composer Sascha Ring has found success mixing intricate, digital experimentation..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday showcases: Stay local (Western Vinyl) or surf Japan Nite, plus reggae Bass Culture.

"...as Father John Misty. Better known as a soundtrack composer having worked for David Gordon Green among others, David..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Director Sophie Fiennes gives us this elegant examination of the highly personal artwork of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.

"...by the clashing brasses and insistent strings of Hungarian composer György Ligeti, we are taken on a Steadicammed walking..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Gary Oldman is John le Carré's unflappable spy, George Smiley, in this dandy espionage tale.

"...with cigarette smoke. And Alberto Iglesias, Pedro Almodóvar's go-to composer, provides the crucial aural analog, alternating bar to bar..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Take Shelter

Is Curtis LaForche slowly going mad or is something apocalyptic about to happen? Michael Shannon stars in this truly unsettling movie.

"...Also on board is David Gordon Green’s regular collaborator, composer David Wingo, whose score for this movie effectively conveys..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Post Office

Austin's indie A/V boutique Stuck On On gets movies across the finish line

"...together for four years, Gregg and his colleagues – composer/mixer/sound designer Lyman Hardy III and producer and head of..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Another Earth

Shaky science fiction shacks up with a corny redemption tale in this Sundance Film Festival double award-winner.

"...wreck destroys the family within: The driver, a music composer named John Burroughs (Mapother), is left in a coma,..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Trip

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon co-star as best friends on a road trip in Michael Winterbottom's colicky, melancholy, and very amusing comedy.

"...wistful piano score (cobbled together from earlier works by composer Michael Nyman). But these characterizations aren't established and then..."

July 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Culture Flash!

Bobcats go Broadway, Palindrome goes Scottish, and billboards go for Austin art

"...in San Marcos as the musical theatre program's first composer in residence, the composer of Broadway musicals The Addams..."

June 17, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Black Arts Movement

In Katrina's wake, Samuel Thompson eased survivors' pain with Bach

"...1 in G Minor and the "Andante" from the composer's Sonata in A Minor. It was an incongruous sound..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick's latest film bursts with unbridled ambition and vision, and while it doesn't always reach the heights for which it aims, it soars boldly and fearlessly.

"...of Life – cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, the five editors, composer Alexandre Desplat (whose score blends seamlessly with a vast..."

June 3, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

First Generation

The 2011 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...in 1940 consisted of only seven instructors, including Doty, composer Kent Kennan (an earlier Austin Arts Hall of Fame..."

June 3, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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