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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Two new symphonies, with a little help from Radiohead, make their debut
It’s not easy for a genre-blurring musician in a genre-focused music industry. When it’s simpler for the music biz to sell its cultural product in neat categories, any music that bridges or blurs those market-described categories often gets left behind.
Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski know that all too well. The pair of genre-defying Austin composers, well-known to arts audiences for their myriad collaborations with theater and dance productions, will debut their respective sixth symphonies on Saturday at Austin Ventures Studio Theater inside Ballet Austin’s downtown headquarters.
Read the rest of the story here.
Preview the music:
- Graham Reynolds: ‘The Difference Engine’, Movement 2: Ada
- Peter Stopschinski: ‘Rough Night with Happy Ending’, Movement 4
Photo by Ralph Berrera/Austin American-Statesman.
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Weekend Arts Pix
Today through Sunday
‘Arrhythmia.’<br>
Hip-hop theater artist Zell Miller III debuts his latest performance piece. Through music, slam-style poetry, hip-hop movements, ‘Arrhythmia’ examines love, in all of its ugliness and splendor and political overtones. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays through Feb. 20. Vortex, 2803 Manor Road. $10-$30 sliding scale. 478-5282, www.vortexrep.org.
Friday and Saturday
‘Meg.Anne.Maud.’
Performance artist Meg Sullivan transforms the Off Center theater into a mapped imaginary landscape where the audience will be invited to think about how archives evoke remembrances of things past and how our favorite book characters — for Sullivan it’s Lucy Maud Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables — inhabit our imaginations. 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Off Center, 2211 Hidalgo St. $7. www.rudemechs.com.
Saturday
‘Black History Month Concert.’
Celebrating works by African American composers, this annual event at UT’s Butler School of Music features traditional spirituals along side works by jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, and classical composers and arrangers Eugene Hancock, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Moses Hogan. Ensembles and soloists from Huston-Tillotson and UT will perform under the direction of Jeff Hellmer. The concert this year is accepting donations at the door for Haiti relief efforts. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Bates Recital Hall, Music Building, UT campus.. www.music.utexas.edu.
