A Marathon Evening with Wagner
“Consider a performance of Wagner’s Parsifal. As you settle into your seat, you look over the program notes, likely to address the Grail legend that inspired the composer. Now imagine…
Premiere Play PHOTOGRAPH 51
Did you know that Austin has a relatively new theater company? Five-year-old independent Filigree Theatre was conceived and nurtured by NYC-born and raised Producing Artistic Director Elizabeth V. Newman. Newman…
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
For its 23/24 Season, Texas Performing Arts outdid itself again for one glorious evening of camp ballet with the troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Founded in NYC 50…
Unveiling a Musical Extravaganza: Nagavalli’s Fusion Showcase
In an inspiring announcement, Nagavalli, an Indian-American artist based in Austin, unveils the stellar lineup for her upcoming show, “First and Foremost: Where East Meets West,” set to take place…
Challenges of the Baroque
Baroque was not a term used at the time we now think of as the Baroque era, but it is the classic term for that which is not classic, referring…
A Threesome for Beethoven
Three sisters brought an unusual Beethoven Concerto alive at the most recent outing of our great Austin Symphony Orchestra. The Ahn trio play the violin, cello and piano, which is…
Austin Film Society (AFS) – Our Own Private Idaho
I reference the anarchic and collage-like Van Sant film of the early 90s in the title of this article. That’s because AFS is the only arthouse movie theater (and so…
Exploring a Socratic Dialogue
There is renewed attention to the Plato’s Euthyphro. In 2017 Harvard University Press updated a version in the famous Loeb Classic series, begun in 1911. In 1914 the Loeb published…
T. S. Eliot and the Nucleus of Modernism
Ask a group of poetry experts what the most consequential poem of the 20th century was. The majority vote will most likely be The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. Written…
An Overnight Trip to Mineral Wells, TX
Lou Reed sang in his song “A Small Town” that he wanted nothing to do with the one he grew up in and had to ‘get outta there’ as fast…