Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 is one of the great peaks of classical music, but opportunities to hear it live are rare — at least around here. That makes this weekend’s concerts by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra doubly desirable. Or triply, if you consider the conductor, Jaap van Zweden.
Van Zweden led a magnificent performance Thursday night [...]

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced today that it will present a two-year, pops concert series that will feature  DSO-commissioned world-premiere works plus multi-media retrospectives by five leading film composers — and Sir Anthony Hopkins.  “The Masters of Film Music” are James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight), George Fenton (Gandhi), Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder), Michael Giacchino [...]

Guest blogger Walton Muyumba is a University of North Texas professor who teaches classes on blues, jazz and American literature. He is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation and Philosophical Pragmatism.
Al Jarreau makes “adult contemporary” music. That’s not a problem, except that Jarreau’s set at the Winspear [...]

You may remember the Bucks Burnett exhibit we told you about last week, along with the video interview with Bucks himself. Thanks to our friend, local video-journalist extraordinaire Randy Eli Grothe, we bring you some rehash from that night.
The band performing is The BBC, Barry Whistler’s band. The still photos in the video were [...]

Legend of the Dot Race – Of the area’s four major pro-sports franchises, the Rangers are by far the most family friendly. Part of that is just the laid-back nature of baseball, and part of it is Chuck Morgan. For most of the last 25 years, Morgan has been the team’s announcer and been in [...]

THINK GLOBALLY, RECORD LOCALLY: “All I knew was that I wanted to be a musician, and I wanted to skip the step of paying other people to record,” Fort Worth musician and sound engineer Zaq Bell says in reference to using a home recording studio. That’s the approach that more and more Fort Worth musicians [...]

This Friday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will hold a major press conference, but so far, it has not revealed even the topic of discussion. At the same time, the DSO has been enticing (or taunting) us — we, the officially jaded skeptics in the media — with tidbits such as: The announcement will be “the [...]

MINING THE PAST: “You learn more from reading than from reading books on writing.” That’s the strategy that Southlake author Suzanne Crowley says guided her to a successful career as a young-adult author. Her second book in the genre, The Stolen One, is set in Tudor England and was inspired by the many books she [...]

Maybe you’ve heard that KERA is launching KXT 91.7 on Monday. Ahem.
Well, today some fine members of the media  are here visiting KXT’s shiny sparkly studio, and listening to Gini Mascorro and Joe Kozera punch up a few tunes and get comfy behind their new board.   And we have special guests  making beautiful music upstairs [...]

If you want to join this year’s Art Conspiracy, today’s the day and now’s *almost* the time. You’re committing to making an artwork on Dec. 11 that will be auctioned on Dec. 12. Here are your instructions:
Send an e-mail to art@artconspiracy.org at noon today. Put “I’m in!” in the subject line. Space is limited for [...]