Flutist Marina Piccinini made clear from her opening comments where Friday night’s concert downstairs at the Nasher Sculpture Center was headed: toward those twelve minutes of ear-splitting energy otherwise known as Boulez’s Sonatine for Flute of 1946. Getting there was half the fun, in a program which was part of...
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Tchaikovsky 's First Piano Concerto at Dallas Symphony Is a Crowd Pleaser
DALLAS SYMPHONY 2-26-2016 Thursday night at the classical subscription concert of the Dallas Symphony at Meyerson Symphony Center, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto once again played the role it has fulfilled so well for 130 years. Dramatic musical gestures (e.g., that riproaring introduction), echt-romantic melodies (as in the sweet, not-quite-gooey middle...
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Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto at Dallas Symphony Is a Crowd Pleaser
DALLAS SYMPHONY 2-26-2016 Thursday night at the classical subscription concert of the Dallas Symphony at Meyerson Symphony Center, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto once again played the role it has fulfilled so well for 130 years. Dramatic musical gestures (e.g., that riproaring introduction), echt-romantic melodies (as in the sweet, not-quite-gooey middle...
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The National’s Bryce Dessner Goes Classical with the DSO
Bryce Dessner is probably best known for his role as guitarist in the baritone-driven indie rock band The National, but he is equally accomplished as a classical composer. “A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I’m in a rock band,” he says, speaking...
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Embark on a Musical Adventure with The Revenant Composer at DSO
Three things you don’t expect at a Dallas Symphony concert: a free s’mores bar in the lobby, electric guitars, and a concert made up entirely of music written in the past thirty years. Such was the case, however, as the orchestra continued its Remix series—not at the Meyerson, not on...
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REVIEW: Beethoven's Fifth at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
The Dallas Symphony and music director Jaap Van Zweden indulge, this weekend, in the time-honored classical music programming tactic of matching a new, unfamiliar work with a standard box office cash cow—in this case, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. This strategy can, and often does, result in an odd evening in which...
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DSO Assistant Conductor Karina Canellakis Wins Major Award
The conductor’s podium at the Meyerson Symphony Center is hot right now. Just two months after Jaap van Zweden was named the next music director of the New York Philharmonic, the Solti Foundation U.S. announced that Karina Canellakis, the Dallas Symphony’s quickly rising assistant conductor, is the recipient of this...
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Dallas Chamber Symphony Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Since it was founded by artistic director and conductor Richard McKay in 2011, the Dallas Chamber Symphony has enlivened Dallas' classical music scene with innovative programming. Now that work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which announced yesterday that the Dallas Chamber Symphony will receive...
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Two Dallas Music Teachers Are Topping the Classical Charts With Songs by a 19th Century Frenchman
Jared Schwartz and Mary Dibbern don’t exactly look or act like international chart-topping musicians. Schwartz, draining excess oil from his salad dressing, cracks jokes about avoiding “the stereotypical opera singer physique.” Dibbern speaks softly of her globe-hopping adventures, uncovering lost music and meeting the descendants of classical and operatic composers...
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Creating Space: The Dallas Opera’s Institute for Women Conductors Passes the Baton
Maestra Marin Alsop is sitting near the harpist. She’s leaning back with her index finger resting across her cheek, observing the interaction between conductor Chaowen Ting and the orchestra. You can tell she wants more than she’s getting from this overture. Alsop gestures a cutoff and walks toward the podium...
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Watch the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Take on 'Carpool Karaoke'
If you've ever watched the Late Late Late Show with James Corden, you're familiar with his popular segment "Carpool Karaoke." For the bit, Corden picks up a famous singer in his car and they proceed to belt out some of the passenger's biggest hits. Guests have included everyone from Adele...
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The Dallas Symphony Thinks You Might Enjoy Condescending Lectures on Saturday Nights
Sometimes when you love somebody, you have to tell him when he's hurting himself. I love the Dallas Symphony, which is why I have to warn it that it should never, ever do anything like Saturday, June 3’s, disastrously boring concert again. Ordinarily, the sight of a patron in a...
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Nicola Benedetti Trades Wynton Marsalis for Beethoven With the DSO
This weekend, superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti will perform a feat of musical versatility. Fresh off two years of performing Wynton Marsalis’ wild, polarizing Concerto in D, she will return to the classical canon and tackle a giant of the past: Beethoven’s revered violin concerto. Benedetti, 30, has been touring Marsalis’...
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Performance of Philip Glass and Anton Bruckner Was Magical
Even compared to the grandeur and rapture that normally accompanies well-executed symphonies inside the Meyerson Symphony Center, Friday night felt exceptional. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's program was divided into two portions — one a contemporary work, Philip Glass' Double Concerto for Two Pianos, and the other a towering classic, Anton...
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The Ring of Polykrates Nears the Line of Cheesy, but Impressive Cast Pulls it Off
As the rather sparse crowd settled into their seats before Friday's opening performance of The Ring of Polykrates, most look confused. For Erich Wolfgang Korngold's piece at The Dallas Opera, the orchestra sat atop the stage rather than below because they performed Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D Major prior to his...
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Jaap van Zweden Says Goodbye With No Replacement in Sight
Hard to believe it was 10 years ago that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra heralded the arrival of a new conductor with billboards and banners implying the man only frowned and only stood in dark lighting. But in that time, talk about the orchestra evolved from “They’re playing Mozart this weekend?...
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Fort Worth Opera Tries To Stay Relevant Amid DWEMS — Dead White European Males
The performing arts are in trouble. Go to a live performance at any theater, and you will likely see an audience dominated by an older generation. These are the people who fill the seats and support the arts financially. The news reminds us daily that the United States is in...
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra Is so Tight-Lipped, We're Gonna Have to Predict Its Next Music Director
On Friday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced its 2018-19 season schedule, one loaded with prominent guest stars. Indeed, the schedule is nothing but guest stars, because music director Jaap van Zweden leaves this May and the symphony is still looking for his replacement. Who will take the top job? Nobody...
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra's ReMix Series Aims To Bring in a Younger Audience — With Drinks!
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s ReMix series mixes many things — drinks, musicians and patrons, electric-blue shoes and black outfits. It all comes together to create a colorful musical experience. The laid-back affair delivers refinement and fun, showcasing modern pieces amid some of the most recognizable works in the classical canon...
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Jazz Singer Denzal Sinclaire Treats Dallas Symphony Orchestra to Nat King Cole Songbook
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Jeff Tyzik, treated audiences this weekend to The Nat King Cole Songbook. Fans of the popular jazz crooner, who died in 1965, were not disappointed. During the program’s first half, Denzal Sinclair sang many popular Cole tunes. His silky vocals echoed the romantic,...
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