KANSAS in Texas
After more than 40 years and 30 million albums sold, the rock group Kansas has a whole new audience thanks to the TV show Supernatural. Their smash hit Carry On…
From Russia With Love
The Austin Symphony performed an all-Russian concert as the closer of their 2017-18 season. First up was a piece known in the trade as a “real knuckle-buster,” the fiendishly difficult…
Bernstein’s Love Piece
A serenade inspired by the Greek philosopher Plato put Leonard Bernstein in the spotlight at the Austin Symphony Orchestra this weekend. While it may have been the marquee event of…
Cello and Piano Recital in Ft. Lauderdale
For the second time in three years, a composition by Dame Ethel Smyth was performed by the first-rate Chamber Music group Chameleon in Ft. Lauderdale. Her Sonata for Cello and…
Unique Organ in Concert Spotlight
Not since Virgil Fox has a concert organist so captured the public imagination as Cameron Carpenter. His latest album, All You Need is Bach, reached no. 1 on the Billboard…
Schumann Symphony Sparkles
The latest offering by the Austin Symphony Orchestra was an instructive lesson about why some composers are cherished and remembered, while others are best left forgotten. Offering a centrepiece piano…
Bella Tames the Beast
Taming Stravinsky’s beast took a Bulgarian with a violin made in 1655, but the feat was accomplished in Austin by Bella Hristova. While some music experts I talked with in…