Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Resolve To Suit Up

The Overserved, Black Tie Edition

Well, sugars. I hope you took advantage of the karmic energy being passed around town this weekend. Saturday was perhaps the most beautiful day of all time and space and had Dallas in the best mood I have ever seen. The scene was set, whether you found yourself tapping out kegs at Spune's inaugural ... More >>

Yabba Dabba, it’s ABBA

Dirk Nowitzki Announces Musical America Conductor of the Year, Jaap van Zweden

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Musical Director Jaap van Zweden is a powerhouse. He was recently named Musical America Conductor of the Year 2012 -- a first for our fair city. While it was advertised that Mayor Mike Rawlings and "other surprise Dallas-area notables" would gather to celebrate his a ... More >>

Dirk Nowitzki Celebrates Birthday The Way All NBA Stars Surely Do: Vintage Wine and a Nobel Laureate

Mike Mezeul​So what do you give the man who -- all the sudden -- has everything? You throw him a surprise birthday party at a discreet wine room and invite 41 guests, including a Nobel Prize winner he's never met. After getting serenaded with "Happy Birthday" by a post-parade American Ai ... More >>

Extended Q&A: Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Talks Symphonies, Drumming and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off

This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform "Gamelan D'Drum," a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensembl ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Young Maths at Andy's Bar in Denton, Chicago at the Meyerson Center

A pretty slow Wednesday evening musically, but at least there's a nice triple-bill of up-and-comers at Andy's for anyone who wants to head to Denton. And, if you're feeling sentimental, you can head to the arts district and catch a Peter Cetera-less Chicago playing with the DSO...

Windy City Woodwinds

Listomania: The 15 Best Concerts of 2010

​With apologies to Robert Earl Keen, Devin the Dude, Cake, Hayes Carll and the multitude of also-rans filling up the regional concert calendar in these final weeks of 2010, it's safe to say, I think, that, with Friday night's Wu-Tang show at the Granada Theater, the year in live music effectively ... More >>

Some DPD (and DSO) News & Notes While We Play a Little Early-Morning Catch-Up

​Between the weather and the Rosh a few things fell through the cracks yesterday. Like, oh, former FBI agent Terence Hart's report to City Manager Mary Suhm concerning the funeral procession for Dallas Police Chief David Brown's son. City Hall sent the 11-page doc, and Suhm's accompanying memo, la ... More >>

God, I Hope I Get It: As Hamlisch Takes Over DSO's Pops, A Talent Search at Arts Magnet

Elaine LinerSing us a song, you're the Piano Man, Marvin Hamlisch!​Marvin Hamlisch has his EGOT. That's Emmys (four of 'em), Grammys (four), Oscars (three) and a Tony. The composer of A Chorus Line and the film score for The Way We Were also has a Pulitzer Prize and three Golden Globes. So he's go ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Elvis Costello With The Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Elvis Costello with the DSOMorton H. Meyerson Symphony CenterMay 28, 2009Better than: tuning in the shine on the light night dial doing anything yours radio advised.Elvis Costello​ There wasn't a lot of room for the 55-year-old Elvis Costello to gallivant about on stage at the Morton H. Meyerson ... More >>

Thanks, Easter Bunny! Woof, Woof!

The Deck Park Will Serve Booze, Getting the Lead out of Belo Garden and a New Tennis Pro Shop at Samuell-Grand

​Still no news about that alleged concert at the Cotton Bowl, but I did learn the following from glancing at the Park and Rec meeting agenda for this week:Park and Rec is in the process of executing concession contracts with the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation that will allow for the sale of alcoh ... More >>

Jaap Van Zweden, a "Face to Watch"

​Says one baton-lovin' Friend of Unfair Park, Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Jaap van Zweden received some early New Year's best-wishes courtesy the Los Angeles Times, which named him a classical-music "face to watch" in the coming year. Writes Mark Swed of the conductor unknown to local ... More >>

An Arresting Development as Police Drummer Finishes Concerto for D'Drum and the DSO

Stewart Copeland​Maybe you missed this when we posted it the first time around -- back in, um, June 2007, when the Police played the American Airlines Center. So, from March '79, here's the band performing (kind of) "The Yellow Rose of Texas" at the original Palladium. (Can't believe that link's s ... More >>

In The Mood

Sailing On Air

Swinging Century

The Popular W.

See Michael W. Smith at the Meyerson

Saxy Time

Blue Symphony

The DSO dives in

Debbie Does Dallas

The DSO welcomes a legendary song and dance dame

Symphonic Spells

The DSO maestro raises a magical wand

Smothered in Cool

These Brothers are truly legendary

Because That Star Trek Concert Wasn't Nerdy Enough

Video Pop

Atari warps into the Meyerson

Egg Salad Sunday

Easter, pups and a score of notes mix up quite nicely

Heaven Sent

Smith celebrates J.C. and co.

Strings And Things

Before the Fourth

Options for pre-holiday festivities

Before the Fourth

Options for pre-holiday festivities

Crooned Tunes

Farewell, Maestro

The DSO honors Litton

Like Mike

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Danger Zone

Plus: Kiosk Krazy

Revolting

Two Marx beat as one

MASS Appeal

Bernstein's Big D story

Beauty and the Beat

Aria ready for Renée Fleming?

Funny Face

Ellen Degeneres has a point

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Hooked on Classics

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is crunk, yo

Night & Day

August 27 - September 2, 1998

Dream state

Comatheatre lets the audience connect the dots

1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part II)

Building to a Crescendo

Dallas Opera was once the toast of the nation. Now it is reaching for that high note again.