Movie music will be featured in a new series of Dallas Symphony Orchestra pops concerts for the next two seasons. Starting in 2010-11, the concerts will feature music from some of the most popular films of recent years. Each of...
The review of last night's DSO concert, including his performance of the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, should be posted shortly. It was filed last night, but night editors were swamped with coverage from the Ft. Hood shootings....
In addition to playing concerts around the world--including, this weekend, with the Dallas Symphony--pianist Stephen Hough blogs for the London Telegraph newspaper. And a new posting reports the disspiriting experience of walking around downtown Dallas--nothing to buy! Well, he did...
I'm not talking about patrons murmuring during performances. I' m talking about presenters and performers talking before concerts. And it's become a veritable plague around here. Talk, talk, talk -- hey, folks, we come to listen to music, not hear...
Here are highlights from the 2009-10 Dallas Symphony Orchestra season, which was announced today. You can read Scott Cantrell's analysis on the GuideLive.com Arts page; ticket information will be posted Monday at the symphony's Web site. Sept. 12: Opening gala,...
Alas, the printed version of my Dallas Symphony review from last Thursday eliminated a couple of cranky final sentences. (The review was complete on the web.) One sentence complained about the darkness in the Meyerson Symphony Center and asked for...
Danail Rachev, former assistant conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, has been named music director of the Eugene Symphony Orchestra in Oregon, starting in fall 2009. Rachev, who left the DSO last summer to become assistant conductor of the Philadephia...