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February 22, 2024 by Therese Powell
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WRR101 Focus on the Arts: These four Dallas arts groups are getting $$$ for NEW works
February 21, 2024 by Amy Bishop
“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 »
Black Futures: Nailah Hunter forges her own dark fantasy on ‘Lovegaze’
February 15, 2024 by
The Los Angeles-based harpist and composer talks about approaching her instrument in new ways on her debut album.
Amanda Gorman’s poetry and Bach’s music offer joint message of hope
February 15, 2024 by
Poet Amanda Gorman and German cellist Jan Vogler combine poetry and Bach’s cello suites at New York’s Carnegie Hall to share the “lows and highs” of human experience.
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: A Puccini Double Bill with SMU’s Meadows Lyric Theatre
February 14, 2024 by Amy Bishop
“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 »
‘Rhapsody in Blue’: After a century, Gershwin’s musical melting pot still resonates
February 12, 2024 by
On Feb. 12, 1924, a sassy fusion of jazz and classical music debuted in New York, sparking a mutual exchange of ideas still debated today.
Seiji Ozawa, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died at 88
February 9, 2024 by
The pioneering Japanese-American conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly decades died Tuesday.
The Longhorn Ballroom is now a National Historic site
February 8, 2024 by Jerome Weeks
Ed Cabaniss, the Longhorn Ballroom’s new owner, has restored it, re-opened it and now has gotten it historic designation.
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Branford Marsalis set to play Glazunov, Williams with Plano Symphony
February 8, 2024 by Amy Bishop
“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 »
Valentines or Galentines: Here’s where to celebrate this weekend in Dallas/Fort Worth
February 8, 2024 by Therese Powell
Whether you’re celebrating with your sweetie pie or your gal pals, we’ve got you covered with picks you’re gonna to love.
WRR101 Focus on the Arts: Expect the Merz Trio’s Dallas concert to be a ‘collage’ of sound
February 6, 2024 by Amy Bishop
“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 »
A 639-year-long John Cage organ performance strikes a new chord in Germany
February 6, 2024 by
The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.
A piece titled ‘As Slow as Possible’ has been in performance for 21 years — so far
February 6, 2024 by
A John Cage piece for organ titled ASLSP — as slow as possible — lives up to its name. It has been in performance for 21 years so far.
Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina shares postcard of Venice through the ages
February 2, 2024 by
Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina releases her Sony Classical debut album — featuring composers from the 17th century to today whose works evoke Venice.
Cellist shares impressions of Venice across the centuries in new album
February 2, 2024 by
Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina releases her Sony Classical debut album Friday — featuring composers from the 17th century to today whose works evoke Venice.