Carnegie Hall

Practice. Practice. Practice.

Q&A: Turtle Creek Chorale's Jonathan Palant

To Cuba and back

A trip to Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club is nothing short of heavenly

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

She's got you

Lisa Layne's terrific voice carries A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline

Events for the week

Lisa Layne's terrific voice carries A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline

Girls school

DIVA's learned a lot about prejudice and potential

Events for the week

DIVA's learned a lot about prejudice and potential

Stars of India

Two generations master an ancient art

Letters

Two generations master an ancient art

Events for the week

Two generations master an ancient art

The mind's ear

Jimmie Vaughan is two albums into a solo career he didn't necessarily want

Say cheesy

The Cheesecake Factory aims to please everybody. Blah.

Good at being the best

The youngest man in rock and roll, Ronnie Dawson gets hitched and grows up (sort of)

Best Debut by a New Acting Company

Martice Enterprises, Latinologues

Best A Cappella

Turtle Creek Chorale

First Ladies of Jazz

Ella enchants at DTC and Billie swings at Contemporary Theatre

Not Your Average Joe

The new county treasurer isn't too sure how he got here, but he's happy to help

Plain folk

Roger McGuinn, still a Byrd man, doesn't wanna be a rock 'n' roll star

Tenors Texas-Style

Sung in the key of Redneck major

Maim That Tune

Sour notes (on purpose!) at Theatre Three; at DCT's Rabbit, the paw that refreshes

Keith Jarrett

The Carnegie Hall Concert (ECM)

Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane

The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Riverside

Curl Up and Die

Steel Magnolias: To the salon with the sisterhood of graveling rants

Ripped Off

When singing the blues, DISD's Corrine Silguero knows it helps to live through them

Hotsy Totsy Nazis

The Producers verks up a shvits at Fair Park; gradually moves backward, Betrayal does

Last Stand

The Producers verks up a shvits at Fair Park; gradually moves backward, Betrayal does

Hang on, Snoopy

Good grief! Happiness is Charlie Brown at Theatre Three; Patsy Cline and Magi are magical, too.

Love and Marriage

Robert and Jill have an Affair to remember

A Classic, With a Twist

Young people didn't see Matt Haimovitz play, so he went to them

Against All Odds

2003's theater winners gambled on edgy themes, took risks on new talent, new material

Segregation Forever

How Dallas got what it wanted

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped, the Folksmen turn it way down from 11

And the Nominees Are

Various Dallas acts up for Grammy awards

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

Still the Rage

Even at 73, Patti Page isn't ready to fade away just yet

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

SRV (Epic Records/Legacy)

Letters

Every egg matters; The little ingrates; Groucho does Iowa; Conan's feminine side; Salt in the wounds

The old old thing

Malvina Reynolds and Harry Smith argue for folk's historical authenticity. Whatever that is.

Folk that

The Chieftains prove folk music can be popular -- as long as you record with Elvis Costello and The Rolling Stones

Ego trip

Carrey channels Kaufman, but is it worth a trip to the Moon?

Built to last

Last Beat Records creates its own scene with a new studio and rehearsal facility

Go Ahead DISD Trustees. Gut the Magnet Schools. If You Want a City That Aspires to Mediocrity.

Last Beat Records creates its own scene with a new studio and rehearsal facility

Partly Mozart

Last Beat Records creates its own scene with a new studio and rehearsal facility

Dallas Symphony Not Syke-d About Ticket Sales And Cancels Community Concert

​This, if I am not mistaken, is the very National Public Radio story that introduced me to Jubilant Sykes, the classically trained baritone who crossed over to pop long before Renée Fleming released her controversial new Dark Hope. Sykes, who's performed at venues as varied as Carnegie Hall and t ... More >>

The Cowboys Host the Cowboy

​This, if I am not mistaken, is the very National Public Radio story that introduced me to Jubilant Sykes, the classically trained baritone who crossed over to pop long before Renée Fleming released her controversial new Dark Hope. Sykes, who's performed at venues as varied as Carnegie Hall and t ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: West, Bruce & Laing Climb the Mountain at Memorial

Back when bootlegs had great album covers​Late-afternoon legal matters yesterday ate into the usual work-week-ending rock-and-roll-and offering. So, then, straight to it via a legendary Swingin' Pig LP digitized for your protection: Leslie West, Jack Bruce and Corky Laing at Memorial Auditorium in ... More >>

Before DSO Heads to Carnegie Hall, An Invite to a Recording Session at the Meyerson

Speaking of the arts (and, in the comments, affordable tickets)  ...The Dallas Symphony Orchestra sends word this morning that the DSO's heading to Carnegie Hall on May 11, where, as part of the first-ever Spring for Music fest, the orchestra will perform for the 11th time -- its first with mus ... More >>

For The Children, Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians Schedule A Rare Performance

​Been sitting here trying to think of the last time Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians played a full-on show together, and I'm just coming up empty. Surely, there haven't been too many in recent years -- not since Carter Albrecht's death in 2007, at least. Since then, both Edie and the New Bos ... More >>

For Your Friday Listening Pleasure, Part I: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall

​As we mentioned a few weeks back, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra played Carnegie Hall this week as part of the first-ever Spring for Music fest. The piece performed: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer's August 4, 1964, the LBJ commission that world-premiered i ... More >>