Possessor Uncut

Identity melts in this psychotropic assassination brainblender

"...Here) and backed by a haunting, chilly score by composer and frequent Ben Wheatley collaborator Jim Williams, Possessor is..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time

Musical bio-doc hits all the right notes, but with no feeling

"...Grusin: Not Enough Time, Barbara Bentree’s profile of the pianist/composer/arranger/producer, who’s been in the music and film industry for..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Howard

The soaring music and short life of the man who made Disney sing

"...Smile (not so much), Ashman and his frequent collaborator, composer Alan Mencken, set up shop at Disney just as..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda's era-defining political musical brings hope home on Disney+

"...the ways those principles have gone unrealized. As writer, composer, and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda built that tension into his..."

July 3, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

For the 2020 Austin Chamber Music Festival, You Provide the Chamber

With the annual event online in your home, chamber music doesn't get any more intimate

"...McCain, familiar to ACMC audiences from the annual Black Composers Concert, play material ranging from William Grant Still to,..."

June 26, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Musicians of Color Talk About the Pandemic's Outsized Impact on Their Communities

COVID-19 extends into all realities of Austin's pervasive inequality

"...a degree, [so] I was worried," admits the "Colors" composer/vocalist...."

June 19, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

This Is Who We Are #6: Miró Quartet's Faces of America: The Light

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...the Miró did favor some older works by known composers (Antonín Dvorák, Charles Ives), the program pushed beyond the..."

May 12, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

This Is Who We Are #3: A New Year's Conspirare Classic

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...ensemble worked its way through four more of the composer's Acht Geistliche Gesänge (Eight Spiritual Songs), the singers built..."

May 6, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Photograph

Get ready for romance with this Valentine’s release about family secrets

"...Marvin Gaye and a jazzy yet unobtrusive score by composer Robert Glasper weave their own kind of spell over..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Adds 105 Acts

Whoop-Szo, Blood, Fennesz, and La Meme Gang join the fest

"...As does roots song-teller Justin Townes Earle, Viennese ambient composer Fennesz, and the verbal assassin of psychobilly, Mojo Nixon...."

Jan. 30, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Sonata

Musical mystery in this Gothic romance

"...Rose Fisher (Tingley) that her missing father, the reclusive composer Richard Marlowe (Hauer) has died in mysterious circumstances. It..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Levitation Interview: Lingua Ignota

Kristin Hayter on academia, catholicism & the complexity of violence

"...speak English to feel the palpable rage emanating from composer/singer Kristin Hayter, an Ivy League-educated artist compelled to confront..."

Nov. 7, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Monos

Colombian child-soldier drama is a bleak look into the cruelty of innocents

"...medically necessary evacuations. (The thundering, anxiety-inducing score by Oscar-nominated composer Mica Levi only ups the feeling that what you..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Downton Abbey

The beloved Masterpiece series makes a royal return

"...don’t know how to feel about a certain scene, composer John Lunn’s jaunty, carryover music cues are there to..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Where'd You Go Bernadette Red Carpet at AFS Cinema

"...Ginger Sledge, director Richard Linklater, editor Sandra Adair, and composer Graham Reynolds..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Photo Gallery

Local Band Montopolis Scores a Multimedia Ode to the Texas Coast

Galveston (and you) will be blown away by this production

"...everything suffused with a musical score performed by the composer and a coterie of equally talented musicians right there..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Grageriart: Design 4 Everyone at Crashbox

Math rock is hard, let's go shopping with some robots

"...and Peter Stopschinski, the well-known actor and the well-known composer performing their creation together as an electric-ivories-tickling twosome who..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Who will win this epic new battle royal as Godzilla faces King Ghidorah?

"...Bear McCreary’s bombastic score occasionally riffs on composer Akira Ifukube’s haunting, martial music from the classic Godzilla..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mustang

Two wild spirits, man and horse, find peace in the microepic

"...bed’s sudden alkali whirlwinds, the desert’s cacophonous weather, and composer Jed Kurzel’s forlorn score, The Mustang is a microepic..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Faster Than Sound: 15 SXSW Buzz Bands to Cure Millennial Burnout

By legs, Lyft, or Lime scooter, get to the following 15 acts

"...pop connoisseur Will Westerman out of London. The airy composer now carries spacious, organic compositions on a first full-on..."

March 8, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Multidimensional Production Team Musically Reimagines Fantastic Planet

Lifted Traces rescores classic films, Harlem re-emerges locally with Oh Boy, and more

"...is not my style of music," admits the local composer. "Our score is original, so we didn't cover anything,..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Conspirare's Hope of Loving

This concert of works by Jake Runestad conveyed a sense of love as a force that soothes, enlightens, and heals

"...No, in devoting this program to music by contemporary composer Jake Runestad, Artistic Director Craig Hella Johnson had his..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Playback: 2018-19 Austin Music Poll Ballot

Kevin Curtin votes in the only election that matters, and you can too

"...other new categories include Best Festival and Best Film/TV Composer. Hopefully those age better than a short-lived category like..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Medeski’s Mad Skillet

UtopiaFest, Sat. November 3, 10pm

"...in the band is a really creative improviser and composer, and everybody's a producer, so when you have that..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Fantastic Fest Interview: Tumbbad Brings Horror to India

Co-director Adesh Prasad on making a first for the nation

"...shot it. The film has been evolving, and [score composer] Jesper Kyd, between the film I sent him, and..."

Sept. 24, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Steve Parker Wins 2018 Tito's Prize

Big Medium selects composer/sound artist for $15,000 award

"...the second Tito's Prize from art collective Big Medium. Composer/sound artist/curator Steve Parker will receive $15,000 and a major..."

July 17, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

Drac packs some serious SPF sunscreen when the Goth-ish animation goes aquatic

"...No offense to composer Mark Mothersbaugh (who is heavily involved in all three..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Cross-border thriller gets a bloodier, morally grayer sequel

"...is director Denis Villeneuve. Neither is the late music composer Jóhann Jóhannson (whose menacing score was the first film’s..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Peter Bay’s MASS Appeal

The local maestro brings Leonard Bernstein’s massive stagework to Austin with a lot of help from a lot of friends

"...apotheosis of – the Bern­stein100Aus­tin celebration of the late composer-conductor's 100th birthday, a celebration that's included several ASO concerts,..."

June 29, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Being Christeene in 2018

“I’m a collection of all the shit that you’re throwing around in this stratosphere of online media conversation.”

"...a varied career, but is best known as a composer. How did you corrupt him?..."

May 25, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

« 1    ‹ BACK    4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13     NEXT ›    34 »