Music Review
Ramsey Lewis Trio and Al Jarreau
Jazz Roots at the Winspear Opera House
November 4

Music Review
I watched a long line of individuals descending against the red-faced hall. The clumped mass became its own architectural feature, an undulating line, a human necklace draped around the ruby vessel that held its amusement, its art.

Conversation
Opening the Winspear Opera House wouldn’t be easy. Stage director Tim Albery explains the thrills and frustrations of pulling off the inaugural performance, Otello.

Music Review
After committing to an additional four years at the head of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jaap Van Zweden got back to the music, with a program featuring Prokofiev, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Rudolf Escher that will be performed through October 25.

Music Review
A booming, brassy Tchaikovsky’s fourth symphony launches the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s sophomore season under the baton of that man from the Netherlands.

Oak Cliff native Evan Smith grew up playing music in Dallas, but he never connected with St. Vincent’s Annie Clark until after the two were living in Brooklyn. This summer, Clark asked Smith and his sax to join the band on their U.S. and European tours. We caught up with Smith on the road, and asked him what it is like watching the Dallas-born band take the music world by storm.

In this imploding economy, ironically triggered by houses, I am sure someone in the country has offered that inexpensive house shows are an economically driven phenomenon. But house shows are not the effect of a starved financial economy – rather a starved musical economy.

Music Review
I wanted to write to you regarding the on stage banter that you engaged us in about a third of the way through the set. To remind you, I believe it started when Thurston said, “Summer in Dallas is like heaven on earth.” Nice line. Then he asked us “Where do people live here?”

Historically, productive members of society ask very little at the end of the hard work day: a cold beer, good conversation, and a little romance if they’re lucky. Why is it, then, that the musical community had drifted so far away from the working man’s pace?

Music Review
When Dale Jones, the personality behind New Science Projects, began prowling about in circles surrounded by a ring of onlookers sitting Indian-style on the dining-room floor, the audience seemed to sense their own vulnerability. Jones was not going to play nice.