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Ronan Harris of VNV Nation Talks Living in Germany and Hating on David Guetta

Even after more than 20 years in the music business, Ronan Harris of VNV Nation still rambles on like a kid half his age. Enthusiastic and confident in the extreme, Harris believes (correctly) that the music he and partner Mark Jackson create is as important now as when it first came back in 1990. ... More >>

Get a Handel on the Holiday

Even after more than 20 years in the music business, Ronan Harris of VNV Nation still rambles on like a kid half his age. Enthusiastic and confident in the extreme, Harris believes (correctly) that the music he and partner Mark Jackson create is as important now as when it first came back in 1990. ... More >>

Yeah, Because It'd Be Just Awful If Dallas Were More Like Chicago or Detroit

​Wilonsky just knows how to push my Yankee carpetbagger buttons. He keeps calling to jab me about the charges that Dallas mayoral candidates Ron Natinsky and Mike Rawlings are trading today, each one accusing the other of wanting to make Dallas like Chicago or Detroit. Being a native of that end o ... More >>

Q&A: Old School Score Composer Theodore Shapiro Talks Russell Brand, Writing For DSO.

Theodore Shapiro​The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's new, ambitious project, Masters of Film Music, aims to showcase some of the most talented film scorers in Hollywood, and, as part of its offerings in the series, the DSO has been inviting these composers to come to Dallas and have a collection of th ... More >>

"An Expression of Life": The Dallas Symphony Orchestra Just Launched a New Ad Campaign

Looking for something entirely unrelated on YouTube moments ago, I came across three videos just posted by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra -- and by "just posted," I mean "20 minutes ago," says DSO manager of publications Chris Shull. They're part of the DSO's "new branding campaign," he says, which w ... More >>

Checking Out a Restaurant Before It's "Ready"

Moving from Dallas to Seattle means I get to do a few things I've never before done, including piloting a U-Haul truck across the Rocky Mountains and visiting restaurants before they're ready for review. ​I've held out on eating at Cane Rosso, Jay Jerrier's immobile pizza kitchen in Deep Ellu ... More >>

If You Liked Stewart Copeland in the Police, You'll Love Him With the Dallas Symphony

It was waaaay back in October '09 we noticed that Police drummer Stewart Copeland was working on a percussion concerto for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with locals D'Drum, which counts among its members local legend Jamal Mohamed. We are now but weeks away from the world premiere of that piece, Ga ... More >>

Hey, Hey, Beaujolais

It was waaaay back in October '09 we noticed that Police drummer Stewart Copeland was working on a percussion concerto for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with locals D'Drum, which counts among its members local legend Jamal Mohamed. We are now but weeks away from the world premiere of that piece, Ga ... More >>

The DSO's Looking to Raise $50 Million. Turns Out, It's Already Almost Halfway There.

​It's been no secret that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra could use a little classical gas right now, following a season that left the DSO with what some guesstimated to be a seven-figure deficit, a few high-profile last-minute cancellations and chief operating officer Paul Stewart taking the presid ... More >>

DS-Open

​It's been no secret that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra could use a little classical gas right now, following a season that left the DSO with what some guesstimated to be a seven-figure deficit, a few high-profile last-minute cancellations and chief operating officer Paul Stewart taking the presid ... More >>

Partly Mozart

​It's been no secret that the Dallas Symphony Orchestra could use a little classical gas right now, following a season that left the DSO with what some guesstimated to be a seven-figure deficit, a few high-profile last-minute cancellations and chief operating officer Paul Stewart taking the presid ... More >>

How to Live Like Jaap van Zweden

​In the December 14 issue of ForbesLife, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's music director conducts a tour of his Dallas, which may not be your Dallas. Unless, that is, you tend arrive at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport after an 11-hour business-class flight from Amsterdam on KLM, drive to yo ... More >>

Texas Ballet Theater's Managing Director on "Heartbreaking" Decision to Ditch Live Music

​Maybe you heard: Texas Ballet Theater debuted its Nutcracker at the Winspear on Friday, much to the displeasure of the Dallas-Fort Worth Professional Musicians Association, since the TBT isn't using, you know, musicians. It's a money-saving move necessitated by TBT's being close to broke, and, tr ... More >>

Star Wars In the Death Star

​Maybe you heard: Texas Ballet Theater debuted its Nutcracker at the Winspear on Friday, much to the displeasure of the Dallas-Fort Worth Professional Musicians Association, since the TBT isn't using, you know, musicians. It's a money-saving move necessitated by TBT's being close to broke, and, tr ... More >>

"Look at Dallas Through the Eyes of Children Who Morph into Local Celebrities."

The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau just sent word that locally based Terry McCullough Productions, Inc. scooped up a few Tellys at the annual awards shindig honoring commercial-makers. Among TMP's first-place prize-winners was a four-minute "travel and tourism" entry commissioned by the DC& ... More >>

Symphonic Sharks

The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau just sent word that locally based Terry McCullough Productions, Inc. scooped up a few Tellys at the annual awards shindig honoring commercial-makers. Among TMP's first-place prize-winners was a four-minute "travel and tourism" entry commissioned by the DC& ... More >>

Made In China

The Peking Acrobats bring magic to the DSO

Don't Take Your Love to Town

Get your asses to Bass Hall for Kenny Rogers

A Musical Toast

Get Euro with the DSO's New Year celebration

Symphony for the Devil

The PSO plays for children

Lyric Stage Gets Ready to Rumble

The PSO plays for children

Strings of Red

The PSO plays for children

Breaking Even

Kenny Rogers shows off his new face

Virgin Black with TODIEFOR, Shatter Messiah, Epicurean

Thursday, July 5, at Dreamworld Music Complex, Arlington

Because That Star Trek Concert Wasn't Nerdy Enough

Thursday, July 5, at Dreamworld Music Complex, Arlington

Heartsong

Thursday, July 5, at Dreamworld Music Complex, Arlington

First Class

FWSO and Austin honor the First Lady of Song

Rock Me

The Modern busts out the Mozart

Arts for Life

Listen to the children play

Bjorchestra

Listen to the children play

Wonderful Wolfie

Celebrate a legacy of incredible composition

Barbra's Boy

Celebrate a legacy of incredible composition

Not So Junky

This is one well-orchestrated garage sale

The Way We Weren't

A Barbra impostor fronts the DSO

Gustav with Gusto

The FWSO does Mahler

Conducting Bob

The FWSO does Mahler

Like Mike

The FWSO does Mahler

Fan-Tastic

The FWSO does Mahler

Mono

Walking cloud and deep red sky. Flag fluttered and the sun shined (Temporary Residence)

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Walking cloud and deep red sky. Flag fluttered and the sun shined (Temporary Residence)

Good Lord

Hobbits and horns at The Lord of the Rings Symphony

Homecoming

Dallas dancers return from the big city

Now and Then

Arlo Guthrie gets some r-e-s-p-e-c-t

Salad Days

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra combines cultures in weekend concert series

Best Flat-out Free Entertainment

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Community Parks Concerts

Sunday in the park with gays

Fans of the Dallas Symphony Easter concert in Lee Park fear it will be moved

Events for the week

Fans of the Dallas Symphony Easter concert in Lee Park fear it will be moved

Leader of the band

Olympic music director Mark Watters steers the sound of the games

Joe Bob Briggs

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