That somebody is Cornell University associate music professor David Yearsley, whose university bio says that during the past two decades, he's "immersed himself in the musical culture of the German Baroque." He's certainly going for baroque with this intriguingly punctuated essay posted to Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair's CounterPunch, in which he writes of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts:Have a look at Dallas's biggest-most expensive-in-the-world arts project floating in a g
David YearsleyDuring the weekend, I exchanged a few e-mails with David Yearsley, the Cornell University associate music professor who, as you'll no doubt recall, attacked the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts with all the subtlety of a Longhorn bull mounting a comely heifer. Turns out, more than a few Friends of Unfair Park also reached out to the prof via e-mail and gave him the ol' proud-Texan what-for. So happens a couple even agreed with some of his points, but took great offense at the
The official press release arrived early this morning, along with the official newspaper: The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is now the AT&T Performing Arts Center. (Or both, per the Web site.) Nobody's saying how much AT&T's spending on the naming rights, only that the package includes "cutting edge communications technology," or "Wi-Fi" for short. Naturally, Mark Nerenhausen, president and CEO of
the AT&T Performing Arts Center, is tickled by the partnership."AT&T not
Patrick MichelsA view from the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House on Monday, when it made its official bowAnother day, another review of the AT&T Performing Arts Center -- this one from Nicolai Ouroussoff of The New York Times, whose assessment graces the top of this morning's Arts section. (You remember Nic -- he's the one who called Cowboys Stadium "a somewhat crude reworking of old ideas" last month. And he was right.) He's far more impressed after this trip to town: He's stunned tha
Patrick MichelsWinspear Opera House architect Norman Foster talks to reporters Thursday morning. Check out more photos from inside the Performing Arts Center in our slide show. As the new AT&T Performing Arts Center's grand opening week continues, architects behind the Wyly Theatre, Winspear Opera House and Sammons Park were on hand Thursday morning to answer reporters' questions about how the designs all came together, and what it all means.Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus were both
