Five Degrees from Beethoven

UT pianist Anton Nel, figuratively descended from a line of teachers beginning with Beethoven

"...Beethoven, who for his part was taught by Mozart's composer friend, and rival, Joseph Haydn. Before that, the piano..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Golden Arm Symphony

Unraveling the budding symphonic genius of Graham Reynolds

"...where rent is still cheap (momentarily), lives Reynolds the composer. If not for the mailbox, you'd miss the house..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Speed Dating Sampler of All 69 Virtual SXSW Music Showcases

The sun always shines on TV

"...Community hip-hop and R&B cultivators proffer beatmaker/composer/Black Pumas keyman JaRon Marshall; the wise, aggressive, impassioned raps..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Review: 2018 Austin Chamber Music Festival

How the Attacca Quartet, Emerson Quartet, and invoke played

"...of his predecessor with exuberant flourishes matched with the composer’s familiar bolder strokes, a dichotomy that had the quartet..."

July 17, 2018 Arts Post by Robi Polgar

Keeping Score

With a bumper crop of musicals onstage in August, musical directors give some notes on what they do

"...from popular music styles, but in their Seventies score composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb sought to evoke..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Revolutionary Score

The Founding Fathers' first declaration: 'We're an American band!'

"...born in the colonies, the first generation of native composers arises. One of the most unlikely – a poor..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Daniel Catán

Renowned opera composer dies while in residence at the Butler School of Music

"...of Music ended sadly on Saturday, April 9, when composer Daniel Catán passed away in his sleep here in..."

April 22, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

When Wagner Became WAGNER

With 'The Flying Dutchman,' Richard Wagner made opera bigger than big

"...Lyric Opera is staging the first opera by the composer for which that term fits, The Flying Dutchman...."

March 26, 2004 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

For the People

Why Shostakovich, as played by the UT Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Kevin Noe, is better than 20 punk rock bands

"...reside, where operas are premiered, and where famous classical composers, conductors, and performers both celebrate and are celebrated...."

Feb. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Blame It on the Bossa Nova

"...and began to vary in form. The samba cancao composers of the Thirties emphasized melodic and harmonic development and..."

July 2, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Art Fun in the Summertime

May

"...Men's Chorale of San Antonio. The title piece by composer Robert Seeley and lyricist Philip Littel explores the vulnerability..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Record Reviews

"...work) fires up the pulpit further. Bley, a prodigious composer with an endearing silly streak, has seen fans stray..."

June 6, 1997 Music Review

The Connection of Merce Cunningham and John Cage Chance

"...new Cunningham work to a Cage score since the composer passed away in 1992. You would think that after..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Arts Feature

Review: Zach Theatre's Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone

A masterful tribute to the father of the Great American Songbook

"...Montreal-born, Florence-based pianist, actor, composer, and playwright Hershey Felder does an absolutely splendid turn..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Austin's Throwing a Big Bash for Beethoven in 2020

The classical community is lighting 250 candles for this musical superhero

"...van Beethoven. These musicians are so excited about the composer's 250th that they're programming special events and concerts of..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos

Dude ranch antics make this reimagining of Strauss too busy, but when the music takes center stage, it’s gorgeous

"...auf Naxos, the debut work of a high-strung young Composer (soprano Aleks Romano), and an Italian comedy, performed by..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

La Follia Plays J.S. Bach’s Greatest Chamber Music

Choosing Bach’s top chamber works may be impossible, but the baroque ensemble made a convincing case for five not-easy pieces in this concert

"...all-Bach season. Among them, these intimate works showcased the composer at his most complex, his most intricate, and his..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Chamber Music Center’s My Life

This concert of works by Brahms, Smetana, and Fujiwara contrasted autobiographical stories told within music by young composers and mature ones

"...the moment in which it is conceived. Yet a composer's work also lives beyond its moment on the timeline,..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Austin Chamber Musical Festival Sixth Annual Pride Concert

Was G.F. Handel on your Gaydar?

"...On the list of gay and lesbian composers whose music is celebrated in the Austin Chamber Music..."

July 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

The Menuhin Competition 2014

"...includes "The Cowboy and the Rattlesnake," commissioned from UT composer Dan Welcher. The Seniors semi-final round includes "Black-Eyed Suzy"..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Arts Feature

Austin Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Peter Bay spices up the symphonic menu with some new compositions

"...Fourth Symphony by Edward Burlingame Hill (1872-1960). This American composer taught some of the most innovative composers of the..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Review: ASO With Quattro Mani

Symphony scores with new works by Lansky and Fitkin

"...at the outset with Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio, the composer's fourth and final attempt to write an opening to..."

May 8, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Blist'ring Strings

This summer the Austin Chamber Music Festival really brings the heat

"...the festival as with ACMC's regular season concerts. The composers represented on festival programs now go far beyond the..."

July 8, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Hat' Trick

The Austin Chamber Music Festival gets you as close to opera as can be

"...adapted from the neurological study by Oliver Sacks by composer Michael Nyman. But there's a big difference with this..."

July 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Outside the Bachs

Classical sounds new when Austin artists do the composing

"...city is home to a phenomenal corps of local composers who seem to think they're in late-18th century Vienna..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Butler School of Music: For this John Adams, a King

UT honors the Nixon in China composer with an award for his notable musical work and three concerts featuring his compositions

"...There, the buzz is all about John Adams the composer, who will be at the school in the flesh..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

George Gershwin: From the Alley to the Concert Hall

A brief look at the life of the composer of Porgy and Bess

"...begun in earnest. Gershwin was a Tin Pan Alley composer who wrote pop songs and didn't even have the..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

Uniters, Not Dividers

"...Johnson has assembled a distinguished panel of presenters and composers for the festival. Here's what makes them exceptional, in..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Feature

The Concerts

"...of the oddities of classical music: a French impressionist composer's version of the blues. By the time Ravel composed..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Music Feature

Summer Schedule Highlights

"...other is that of Claude Debussy, the seminal, turn-of-the-century composer. Hidden in these shadows is a wealth of great..."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

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