Tag: Go See DFW

WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Rock meets Bach with this classical crossover group coming to North Texas

February 28, 2024 by

“I think when you have people who are doing something that they are so passionate about – that’s their life’s work – where every moment onstage, they are doing what were meant to do, the audience knows that,” says violinist Lindsay Deutsch of the Classical Crossover group, Take Three. Ahead of their concert at the… Read more »

WRR101 Focus on the Arts: These four Dallas arts groups are getting $$$ for NEW works

February 21, 2024 by

“There’s such incredible work happening here and we are so proud to do our part,” says Maura Sheffler, the Donna Wilhelm Family President & Executive Director of TACA – The Arts Community Alliance – which recently distributed $125,000 to four Dallas arts organizations. Hear more about those groups and the works they’re creating in this… Read more »

WRR101 Focus on the Arts: A Puccini Double Bill with SMU’s Meadows Lyric Theatre

February 14, 2024 by

“I think what makes these works still so viable today is that Puccini had this amazing ability to get to the heart of the human condition,” says Michael Scarola, Interim Director of SMU’s Meadows Lyric Theatre, referencing the two enduring operatic masterpieces they’ll perform February 15-18, 2024. In this feature with WRR’s Amy Bishop, Scarola… Read more »

WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Branford Marsalis set to play Glazunov, Williams with Plano Symphony

February 8, 2024 by

“To be intermingled with that sound is really incredible… I don’t think of it as me in the front and them in the back,” says saxophonist Branford Marsalis, the GRAMMY Award-winning instrumentalist and composer who will join the Plano Symphony Orchestra Feb. 17, 2024. In this feature, Marsalis chats with WRR’s Amy Bishop about the… Read more »

WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Expect the Merz Trio’s Dallas concert to be a ‘collage’ of sound

February 6, 2024 by

“We love the artform that is concert curation – the kind of conversational possibilities it offers both between ourselves and the composers whose works we choose to play,” says violinist Brigid Coleridge of the Merz Trio. Dallas Chamber Music Society will welcome the group in concert at SMU Feb. 12, 2024, marking the organization’s inaugural… Read more »