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Nov. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Piano Teacher
"...breakthrough ideas about sex and repression and civilization. The Piano Teacher seems as though it might be a page..."
July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
DVD Watch: 'Grand Piano'
Elijah Wood's thriller heads up this week's releases
"...If musical thriller Grand Piano teaches you anything, it's this: Learning "Chopsticks" could save..."
May 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
‘Grand Piano’ Is a Virtuosic Instrument
Craft and performance anxiety rule this Fantastic Fest dazzler
"...The suspense is as taut and responsive as piano wire in this Fantastic Fest world-premiering film that stars..."
Sept. 24, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
Grand Piano
Elijah Wood and John Cusack play cat and mouse in this concert-stage suspense dazzler.
"...composition that serves as its elegantly anxious heartbeat, Grand Piano is a manic feast for the senses. Fantastic Fest..."
March 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Elijah Wood Plays Impossible Tunes in 'Grand Piano'
Director Eugenio Mira and Wood on real time thrills and music lessons
"...depends on it. That's the basic story behind Grand Piano, the new thriller starring Elijah Wood. As the actor..."
March 6, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Watch This: Highlights of the Original Austin City Limits Piano
The legendary ivories of the legendary show, played by legends
"...The 1911 Steinway Grand Piano, a fixture of the show’s first 36 years taped..."
June 1, 2023 Screens Post by Doug Freeman
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Like a dream, the Quay Brothers' The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is wispy and ethereal; like a nightmare, it lodges in your hindbrain and gnaws away with gleeful abandon.
"...all of the work of the brothers Quay, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is shrouded in gloomy atmospherics, Expressionist..."
Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Checking In: Trumpet Clarion Ephraim Owens Sits at the Piano
Tedeschi Trucks Band brass man always broadens our scope
"...EO: Putting attention toward yardwork, walks, sitting at the piano and on the trumpet, and using this time to..."
April 17, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Fantastic Fest: 'Grand Piano' Red Carpet
Sept. 20, 2013. 11 photos.
"...'Grand Piano' red carpet at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline, Sept. 20, 2013..."
Sept. 23, 2013 Photo Gallery
Texas Piano Professors
"...who are issuing proclamations for Sunday's Tribute to Texas Piano Professors like Grey Ghost (inset), and the recently departed..."
Sept. 15, 1995 Music Feature
Checking In: Trumpet Clarion Ephraim Owens Sits at the Piano
Tedeschi Trucks Band brass man always broadens our scope
April 24, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Whole Lot of Rockin' Goin' On
Linda Gail Lewis received her first piano lesson from her brother at 40
"...stubby fingers. I don't have the reach of other piano players, so I have to play faster to cover..."
Nov. 20, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall
Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Industry Awards Grow Into Emo’s
Berkshire Hounds back a piano-smashing good time, non-Spring Break SXSW needs more volunteers, and Bayonne brings his piano home
"...winner's past performance piece – destruction of a red piano – band member Garland enthusiastically demolished a Charlie Brown-sized..."
Feb. 22, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe
Anton Nel
The concert pianist shows off the Hamburg Steinway he chose for Dell Hall
"...years ago, the celebrated concert pianist and professor of piano at UT's Butler School of Music was playing his..."
March 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Austin Symphony Orchestra: "Rach Star"
Orion Weiss played Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto with the Austin Symphony, and we were spellbound
"...Saturday night during Orion Weiss' performance of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3. The pianist's handling of the work's..."
Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Bringing Up Baby
Baby Dee creates magic out of life
"...classic, Freaks. She’s a transgender performer classically trained in piano, harp, and a million other instruments, and her words..."
Feb. 14, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens
Wreck of the Elizabeth Dane
Ghost stories
"...Lee Curtis climbs back aboard as well. Cue the piano...."
July 13, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
The Quiet
The first Burnt Orange Productions joint mixes The Piano with Poison Ivy. Perhaps future generations of film scholars will embrace The Quiet as a B-movie that problematizes the oppressive gaze, but for now, it's a misfire.
"...script (by Abdi Nazemian and Micah Schraft) kludges The Piano with Poison Ivy: enigmatic young woman (Belle), mute by..."
Sept. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Tale of a Tale Spinner
How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.
"...and musical shows. Pauline Pierce Allen was a professional piano player -- a real barrelhouse jazz and blues musician..."
Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Legend of 1900
"...for a physics-defying spin around the ballroom on 1900's piano bench. It's amazing to watch, but adds up to..."
Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Eyes Wide Shut
Kubrick's final work gets sexual
"...school pal Nick Nightingale (Field), who's now playing jazz piano in a Village bar. It's here that Harford is..."
July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Portrait of a Lady
Jane Campion brings her modern sensibilities to this story of Henry James’ 1870s heroine Isabel Archer, a young, sharp-minded, American woman abroad who inherits unexpected wealth and uses it to live as she likes, traveling and rejecting numerous suitors until she falls into an unwise marriage that nearly becomes her ruination.
"...it fascinates. Jane Campion, the much-lauded director of The Piano, and screenwriter Laura Jones (An Angel at My Table)..."
Jan. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Shine
"...his 20s while performing his personal bogeyman piece, Rachmaninoff's “Piano Concerto No. 3” (affectionately referred to throughout the film..."
Dec. 25, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Ballet Austin's Masters of Dance
This triple bill of abstract works was a tribute to the piano and its range, excellently performed
"...Piano moves the body. It's a rule that ballet dancers..."
Feb. 23, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz
10 Minutes With Ry Cooder
Journeyman guitarist yes, ethnomusicologist maybe
"...Sharon White, and her 85-year-old Texan father Buck pounding piano...."
Sept. 17, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri
Three Weeks of Bear(ing) Soul
Nakia begins his three-week residency at the Belmont tonight
"...A seven-foot wide piano now sits inside the Belmont. And Austin’s one and..."
Jan. 15, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff
Nostalgia
A life well lived examined in a film uninspiringly made.
"...But with Pellington’s wandering camera and an insufferably maudlin piano score that telegraphs every emotion, Nostalgia feels like an..."
March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Shut In
Naomi Watts stars in ho-hum thriller
"...teeth of an oncoming blizzard, Mary’s mental state, already piano-wire taut, begins to fray even more. Is it merely..."
Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Playback: Charlie Pierce Burns It Down
Charlie Pierce, the Gibby Haynes of piano, speaks out; Sweet Spirit serenades Spoon in a tour diary excerpt; and Phil Anselmo says maybe next year for a Housecore Horror ATX return
"...Five years ago, piano man Charlie Pierce taught elementary education in Benton Harbor,..."
May 29, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin
Oswaldo "A.B." Cantu Pan-American Recreation Center
