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Ambassador to the Arts
Dear Friends of the Arts, Ever since I arrived in Dallas in 2008 as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, I have been inspired by the important role the arts play in the fabric of this great city. The arts— music, theater, and dance, and our wonderful array of galleries and museums—have a great and almost magical power. They inspire dreams, challenge expectations, and uplift the spirits of citizens and visitors of all ages and backgrounds. As Dallas’s Ambassador to the Arts, I invite you to use this guide as a starting point to explore and discover the range of unique and exciting cultural experiences that await you in Dallas. The rewards are great and will last a lifetime.
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The mission of Dallas DBDT – Escapades by Alvin Ailey Photo: Sharen Bradford Black Dance Theatre is to create and produce contemporary modern dance at its highest level of artistic excellence. The vision of Dallas Black Dance Theatre is to fulfill its mission through performance and educational programs that bridge cultures, reach diverse communities and encompass ever-expanding national audiences. Dallas Black Dance Theatre celebrates its 36th season as the oldest, continuously operating professional dance company in Dallas. The ensemble, a contemporary modern dance company, consists of 12 professional, full-time dancers performing a mixed repertory of modern, jazz, ethnic, and spiritual works by nationally and internationally known choreographers. JANUARY 16 – 18, 2014 McFarlin Auditorium (SMU) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 7 – 9, 2014 Wyly Theatre CULTURAL AWARENESS SERIES Dallas Black Dance Theatre returns to their home, the Wyly Theatre, with new works from choreographers Christopher Huggins and Chang Yong Sung. Also, the company will premiere a
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new work from company dancer Richard A. Freeman, Jr. and Gumaro Armando Silva of Houston MECA titled “Una Familia, Todos Unidos - One Family All United” – utilizing the history, times, and spritis of Civil Rights icons Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez. MARCH 21, 2014, 7:30 P.M. W.E. Scott Theatre DANCING BEYOND BORDERS
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Both professional Companies return to what is sure to be a sell-out crowd at the W.E. Scott Theatre in Fort Worth, with exciting new choreography by company dancers Katricia Eaglin, Richard A. Freeman, Jr., and Nycole Ray. Featuring audience favorite Darryl Sneed’s And Now Marvin. APRIL 9 – 10, 2014, 7:30 P.M. City Performance Hall DBDT II: SPRING FIESTA! Returning for a second year at the City Performance Hall, DBDTII will perform new works by Director Nycole Ray and Dance/Choreographer Jamie Thompson. See this exciting core of young professionals as they draw audiences from the Dallas community to fill the seats in this great performance hall. MAY 16 – 17, 2014, 7:30 P.M. Winspear Opera House SPRING CELEBRATION GALA The Dance Community joins in the celebration of Ann William's legacy with two Gala evenings of spectacular
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performances and receptions at the 2000 seat Winspear Opera House. The event will feature new Company ballets with choreography from Lily Weiss and Christoper Vo. Other performances scheduled for the evening include Texas Ballet Theater, Bruce Wood Project and Troy Powell of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Tickets & Contact Dallas Black Dance Theatre 2700 Flora Street Dallas, TX 75201 P.O. Box 131290 Dallas, TX 75313 (214) 871-2842 www.dbdt.com
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Dallas Center for Contemporary Art
FAILE, 2013 Dallas Contemporary is Photo: Kevin Todora a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national, and international artists. The institution is committed to engaging the public through exhibitions, lectures, educational programs, and events.
JR: INSIDE OUT JANUARY 11 – MARCH 9, 2014 Since 2000, JR has pasted his large-scale photographs in streets throughout the world as a method of exploring personal identity. By merging photography with street art, JR covers entire buildings, walls, streets, and other unconventional surfaces with his wheat pasted portraits, creating what he calls “pervasive” art. His work addresses important social issues and gives a voice to the underrepresented. In 2011, JR received the Ted Prize and launched the world’s largest participatory art project INSIDE OUT. With a mission to turn the world into a public canvas, JR invites participants to publicly stand up for what they believe in by pasting their portraits within their communities. The project has inspired groups across the globe to raise awareness about such topics as diversity, gender-based violence, climate change, and gay rights. To date, INSIDE OUT has reached 108 countries, and
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the likenesses of over 150,000 participants can be seen in such places as the highways of Hong Kong, the walls of the Middle East, the bustling streets of Time Square, the favelas of Brazil, and the icy landscape of the North Pole. LES MISÉRABLES: POST-CONCEPTUAL ART JANUARY 11 – MARCH 9, 2014 Since the late 1970s, new waves of critical and theoretical thinking have permeated the visual art world resulting in work that demonstrates a profound understanding of the shift in current meaning and intellectual Installation View Les Misérables: categories. Rather than focusing Post-Conceptual Art Photo: Kevin Todora on the singleness of the art object, artists are increasingly interested in art’s multiple contexts and meanings, and its relationship to social and cultural influences. In defiance of the formalist tendencies of Modernism, these artists infuse ideas and images from past movements and traditions into their work and allow the viewer to renegotiate the meaning of these concepts in new contexts. The work, sometimes playful or ironic, rejects notions of structure and hierarchy. Les Misérables: Post-Conceptual Art features works on loan from local private collections that explore this critical platform of re-contextualization. Like the 19th-century Victor Hugo novel that has been remade into six different films since 1935, Post-Conceptual art repurposes already existing ideas, concepts and images. By borrowing and manipulating familiar material, artists explore issues such as the non-transparency of language and the cultural consumption of imagery. Most, if not all, of the artists in this exhibition also demonstrate a strong influence of French Post-Structuralist theory from the 1960s and early 1970s.
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LAVISH DESIGN IN DALLAS JANUARY 11 – MARCH 9, 2014 Both idealized and alluring, the lavish is designed to be marveled at. Conditioned by cinema, advertising and other aspects of visual culture, we associate the lavish with a certain aura of luxury, perfection, and unobtainability. Our culture’s infatuation with this type of glamour has produced a school of design that creates desirable objects featuring richly intricate patterns, sumptuous materials, and stimulating sculptural forms. Lavish Design in Dallas brings together a diverse selection of clothing, jewelry, textiles, and sculptural interventions by six Dallas artists and designers. Addressing glamour’s current role in Dallas while crossing disciplinary boundaries, this exhibition creates a context for Dallas designers while redefining the relationship between highfashion design and the gallery space. The site-specific installation transforms the gallery into a large-scale theater set, dream-like and moving, which tempts and encourages the viewer to engage with the luxuriant designs. PAULA CROWN: INSIDE MY HEAD: A CONTEMPORARY SELF-PORTRAIT JANUARY 11 – MARCH 9, 2014 Merging artistic techniques with medical science, Paula Crown offers a new, technologically advanced method of presenting the self-portrait. The viewer—standing between two convex screens—observes the passage of seemingly abstract patterns. Upon closer observation, however, these images, with their pulsating accumulation of
Installation View Paula Crown: Inside My Head: A Contemporary SelfPortrait Photo: Kevin Todora
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shapes and forms, reveal the workings of the artist’s own brain, documented via a magnetic resonance image (MRI). Her physical anatomy has been translated into image sonifications, which were also generated from the MRI scans. In addition, Ben Rubin and violinist Todd Reynolds provide an original score based on the animations. The images have been manipulated by Crown in a way that references painterly techniques from the Renaissance to the present, including the use of multiple points of perspective, sfumato, three-dimensional imaging, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Through this process, Crown identifies and describes the intersection of the internal and external, allowing the record of the data to physically build the environment. Crown’s use of these available technologies to amplify and monumentalize personal physiology provides insights into our lived experience and shifts our perceptions from what we would expect of a self-portrait. ARTHUR PEÑA: SLIGHT SHIFT, STEADY HAND JANUARY 11 – MARCH 9, 2014 Working for the past decade with painting and installation, Arthur Peña creates works that have no indication of a place. Many of these works address personal and complex issues. Peña always presents an element of intrigue or suspense, but he does not resolve the atmosphere of physical tension. That lack of resolution entices the viewer to long for another scene from these strange narratives, but unlike a series of movies stills, the next image never appears. Yet, Peña’s newest works map conceptual territory for the construction and documentation of interior spaces that involve people. With this work, the spaces are unthinkable within existing theoretical frameworks. It creates a relational approach to issues of architecture and the interior to counter object approaches that characterize documentary thought. Peña’s art explores meanings that exist in between material and theoretical interpretations of ground. These meanings are developed through a focus on the second term of pervasive binary oppositions that masquerade as truth, such as masculine/feminine, architecture/space, work/site, object/space, and represented/real. In each case, this second term tends to be taken for granted as background or environment for the more obviously constructed first term.
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SHEPARD FAIREY: CITYWIDE STREET MURAL PROJECT ONGOING Dallas Contemporary has invited Los Angeles based street artist Shepard Fairey to create more than 12 murals throughout the city with a focus on West Dallas. Known for his iconic President Obama HOPEÂ poster, Fairey has worked as an artist creating works on the streets and globally in public spaces using posters, stickers, wheat paste, and painted murals.Â
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Dallas Museum of Art
Established in 1903, the Dallas Museum of Art exterior view from Flora Street Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) ranks among the leading art institutions in the country and is distinguished by its innovative exhibitions and groundbreaking educational programs. At the heart of the Museum and its programs is its global collection, which encompasses more than 22,000 works and spans 5,000 years of history, representing a full range of world cultures. Located in the vibrant Arts District of downtown Dallas, the Museum welcomes more than half a million visitors annually and acts as a catalyst for community creativity, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds with a diverse spectrum of programming, from exhibitions and lectures to concerts, literary events, and dramatic and dance presentations. In January 2013, the DMA returned to a free general admission policy and launched DMA Friends, the first free museum membership program in the country. JIM HODGES: GIVE MORE THAN YOU TAKE OCTOBER 6, 2013 – JANUARY 12, 2014 The Dallas Museum of Art will premiere a major traveling exhibition and the first comprehensive survey to be organized in the United States on the work of contemporary American artist Jim Hodges. Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the
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Walker Art Center, Jim Hodges explores the trajectory of the artist’s twenty-five-year career, highlighting the major themes that unify his multilayered and varied practice. Comprising approximately seventy-five works produced from 1987 through to the present, this exhibition examines how Hodges transforms both everyday and precious materials into poignant meditations on themes including time, loss, identity, and love. Jim Hodges brings together photography, drawing, works on paper, and objects rendered in mirror, light bulbs, and glass alongside several major room-size installations to examine and illuminate Hodges’ command of material and gesture. CONCENTRATIONS 56: STEPHEN LAPTHISOPHON—COFFEE, SEASONAL FRUIT, ROOT VEGETABLES AND “SELECTED POEMS” OCTOBER 27, 2013 – MARCH 30, 2014 Concentrations is a special DMA exhibition series of projectbased solo exhibitions by international emerging artists. The series began in 1981 as part of the Dallas Museum of Art’s commitment to the work of living artists, with the goal of making the work of contemporary artists accessible to our audiences while preserving the excitement of the work. The work of Stephen Lapthisophon investigates how language and mark-making are linked to the formation of self-identity. His installations often incorporate everyday objects such as furniture, clothing, and home wares as a means to break down the barriers between the work of art and daily life. The inclusion of food materials such as rosemary, saffron, or bacon fat mixed with pigment aim at challenging ideas of permanence, craft, and process. HOPPER DRAWING: A PAINTER’S PROCESS NOVEMBER 17, 2013 – FEBRUARY 16, 2014 The Dallas Museum of Art will present Hopper Drawing: A Painter’s Process, the first museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of American artist Edward Hopper. The touring exhibition features more than one hundred works by Hopper, including drawings, watercolors, prints, and paintings, and is drawn primarily from the Whitney Museum’s unparalleled
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holdings of the artist’s work. Hopper Drawing will bring together paintings with suites of related drawings, in some cases for the first time. Hopper’s drawings remain an uncharted territory as the last aspect of his oeuvre to be known and understood. The exhibition will be subdivided to address specific themes, series, and pairs of works. Hopper developed themes in pairs or in series over decades, and understanding these continuities is crucial to enlightening us about Hopper’s approach to making art. Through his drawings and paintings, one sees that in Hopper’s revisiting of certain subjects his own memory played a major role in the way in which he developed content. ROBERT SMITHSON IN TEXAS NOVEMBER 24, 2013 – APRIL 27, 2014 Robert Smithson in Texas is the first examination of five projects proposed by the internationally renowned American artist throughout Texas in the years 1966–73. The exhibition coincides with the fortieth anniversary of Smithson’s final work, Amarillo Ramp, completed posthumously in August 1973. One of a number of artists in the 1960s and early 70s who built site-specific pieces in remote locations in the West, Smithson was a founder of the art form known as earthworks or land art. Robert Smithson in Texas features approximately 26 objects, including drawings, sculpture, and photography, drawn from public and private collections, and the artist’s estate. The exhibition presents lesser-known works from a period of Smithson’s career that was bookended by the DallasFort Worth Airport project from 1966–67, and Smithson’s only realized work in Texas, the 1973 Amarillo Ramp. Complementing the Focus show, the DMA will showcase a selection of holdings by the artist in its permanent collection, including the dramatic sculpture Mirrors and Shelly Sand. ALEXANDRE HOGUE: AN AMERICAN VISIONARY FEBRUARY 16 – JUNE 15, 2014 Alexandre Hogue’s deep concern for environmental issues was a catalyst for the creation of a body of works that spanned the entirety of his career. The land-management failures that spawned the devastation of the dust-bowl decade of the 1930s became
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the impetus for some of the artist’s most powerful imagery—The Erosion Series. Works such as the DMA’s own Drought Stricken Area served as an alarm to the public, and an accusation and rebuke to powers that, through encouraging poor farming practices, had helped to produce the greatest agricultural disaster in American history. The losses and lessons learned from the 1930s will resonate with visitors, given that concerns over climate change and the delicate balance of land resources have stepped to the fore. Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary will present Hogue’s erosion works, including the DMA’s Drought Stricken Area. The exhibition will also include supporting drawings for several of the paintings, allowing visitors to observe the evolution of the artist’s creative process from conception to finish. NUR: LIGHT IN ART AND SCIENCE FROM THE ISLAMIC WORLD MARCH 30 – JUNE 29, 2014 Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World exhibition of Islamic art and culture, spanning more than ten centuries, and including artworks and secular objects from throughout the Islamic world. Featuring 150 objects from public and private collections in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States, Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World will explore the use and meaning of light in Islamic art and science, and demonstrate how light is a unifying motif in Islamic civilizations worldwide. The exhibition, organized and developed by Islamic art and culture expert Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir, Senior Advisor of Islamic Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, will include a significant number of objects that have never before been presented to the public, from artworks to rare manuscripts and scientific objects. Deriving its title from the Arabic word for light in both the physical and metaphysical sense, Nur will be organized thematically into two major sections: an art section showcasing innovations in artistic technique that enhance the effect of light, and a section focusing on scientific fields that are related to light or contributed to enlightenment. Encompassing works dating from the 9th through early 20th centuries, and originating from a wide geographical area, from Spain to Central Asia, the exhibition will include manuscripts illuminated with gold and color pigments, ceramics painted with lustre, inlay metalwork
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decorated in silver and gold, and objects made from precious and semi-precious stones. Scientific objects featured in the exhibition include equatorial sundials, astrolabes, and anatomical instruments, all of which are examples of the Islamic world’s influence on the Renaissance and scientific thought. FROM THE VILLAGE TO VOGUE: THE MODERNIST JEWELRY OF ART SMITH JUNE 15 – DECEMBER 7, 2014 From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith examines the work of modernist jeweler Arthur Smith (1917–1982) through a collection of 21 works acquired by the Brooklyn Museum of Art from the estate of the artist. The presentation of Smith’s jewelry is enhanced by archival material from the artist’s estate, such as sketches, the original shop sign, Smith’s tools, and period photographs of models wearing the jewelry. One of the leading modernist jewelers of the mid-twentieth century, Smith was also an active supporter of black and gay civil rights, an avid jazz enthusiast, and a supporter of early black modern dance groups. Inspired by surrealism, biomorphicism, and primitivism, Smith’s jewelry is dynamic in its size and form. Although sometimes massive in scale, his jewelry remains lightweight and wearable. The jewelry dates from the late 1940s to the 1970s and includes his most famous pieces, such as a “Patina” necklace inspired by the mobiles of Alexander Calder; a
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“Lava” bracelet, or cuff, that extends over the entire lower arm in undulating and overlapping forms; and a massive ring with three semi-precious stones that stretches over three fingers. PLEASURES IN THE TWILIGHT: 19TH CENTURY DRAWINGS FROM DAVID TO DEGAS JUNE 29 – OCTOBER 26, 2014 CONCENTRATIONS 57: SLAVS AND TATARS JULY 27 – DECEMBER 2014 Slavs and Tatars is a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. The collective’s work spans several media, disciplines, and a broad spectrum of cultural registers (high and low) focusing on an oft-forgotten sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians, and Central Asians. For their DMA Concentrations project, the group will explore the literary genre known as “mirrors for princes,” which consists of textbooks geared toward kings and rulers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. ISA GENZKEN: RETROSPECTIVE SEPTEMBER 14, 2014–JANUARY 4, 2015 Isa Genzken (German, b. 1948) is arguably one of the most important and influential female artists of the past 30 years. This exhibition, the first comprehensive retrospective of this artist’s epically diverse body of work in an American museum, and the largest to date, encompasses Genzken’s work in all mediums over the past 40 years. Although a New York art audience might be familiar with Genzken’s more recent assemblage sculptures, the breadth of her achievement—which includes not only threedimensional work but paintings, photographs, collages, drawings, artist’s books, films, and public sculptures—is still largely unknown in this country. Many of the nearly 200 works in the exhibition will be on view in the United States for the first time. Genzken’s work has been part of the artistic discourse since she began exhibiting in the mid-1970s, but over the last decade a new generation has been inspired by the artist’s radical inventiveness. The past 10
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years have been particularly productive for Genzken, who, with a new language of found objects and collage, has created several bodies of work that have redefined assemblage for a new era. These groups of sculptures range from smaller, diorama-like works to room-filling installations.
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Since its glittering The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House 1957 inaugural concert with Photo: Negel Young / Foster + Partners the legendary Maria Callas, the Dallas Opera has made a national and international name for itself by discovering new world-class talents and enhancing the careers of important artists, directors, and designers. The future has never looked brighter. The current leadership has plans to guide the company through another exciting season in our new home: the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. FEBRUARY 12, 2014, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 14, 2014, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 15, 2014, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 16, 2014, 2:00 P.M. DEATH AND THE POWERS Music by TOD MACHOVER Libretto by ROBERT PINSKY Conducted by NICOLE PAIEMENT Directed by DIANE PAULUS Science fiction and poignant family drama combine in one of the most stunning, cutting-edge operas of the 21st century, with a libretto by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, coming to the stage of the Winspear Opera House in a production directed by Diane
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Paulus, designed by Alex McDowell (Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report) and conducted by Nicole Paiement (TDO’s The Lighthouse). This visually spectacular robot pageant by MIT Media Lab’s Tod Machover tells the story of a terminally ill billionaire, sung by Robert Orth, who downloads his consciousness into “the System” and proceeds to use all his powers to persuade his loved ones to join him there. Without bodies, without the possibility of touch, sex, suffering, and death, are we still genuinely human? MARCH 21, 2014, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 23, 2014, 2:00 P.M. MARCH 26, 2014, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 29, 2014, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 6, 2014, 2:00 P.M. DIE TOTE STADT Music and Libretto by ERICH KORNGOLD Conducted by SEBASTIAN LANG-LESSING Directed by MIKAEL MELBYE Before Hitchcock filmed Vertigo, Korngold created Die tote Stadt, the tale of one man’s dark obsession with the woman he loved and lost. Featuring state-of-the-art projections and composed by a prodigy who evolved into one of the great masters of music for the Golden Age of Cinema (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Deception, The Sea Hawk), Die tote Stadt features an extraordinary cast that includes Jay Hunter Morris in the role of Paul, Ann Petersen in her American debut as Marietta, and Morgan Smith as Fritz. Paul’s fierce grip on the memory of his dead wife will be challenged by the equally determined Marietta. Can he let go of his fantasy in order to live again? MARCH 28, 2014, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 30, 2014, 2:00 P.M. APRIL 2, 2014, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 5, 2014, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 11, 2014, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 13, 2014, 2:00 P.M. THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Music by GIOACHINO ROSSINI Libretto by CESARE STERBINI
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Conducted by GIULIANO CARELLA Originally Directed by JOHN COPLEY Disguises and false identities abound as men—young and old—vie for the hand of the beautiful Rosina in one of the funniest and most frenetic operas ever composed! The Barber of Seville Rossini’s delightful 19th-century ©2014 Dallas Opera romp centers on “Figaro, Figaro, Figaro,” a scheming barber and jack-of-all-trades, sung by Dallas Opera favorite Nathan Gunn, who plots with Count Almaviva to release Bartolo’s ward from her gilded cage. The all-star ensemble includes acclaimed mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the gorgeous-yet-spunky Rosina, lyric tenor Alek Shrader as the lovestruck Almaviva, and commanding Turkish bass Burak Bilgilias Don Basilio in their much-anticipated TDO debuts. It also marks the welcome return of the inimitable Donato DiStefano, a comic veteran of previous Dallas Opera productions of Barber and La Cenerentola, in a role he has sung all over the world: Dr. Bartolo. Tickets & Contact Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House 2403 Flora Street, Suite 500 Dallas, TX 75201 (214) 443-1043 (General) (214) 443-1000 (Box Office) www.dallasopera.org
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The Dallas Symphony's Meyerson Symphony Center mission is to entertain, inspire, and change lives through musical excellence. Since 1900, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra has grown from a 40-person ensemble to a nationally recognized orchestra performing in one of the world’s finest concert halls. The DSO named Jaap van Zweden as its new music director in February 2007. The 2013-2014 season marks van Zweden’s sixth with the orchestra. Dallas Symphony performances conducted by Jaap van Zweden are regularly hailed by The Dallas Morning News as “exhilarating,” “revelatory,” “intensely dramatic,” and “as electrifying as you’ll hear anywhere.” DECEMBER 6 – 22, 2014 CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION The Dallas Symphony’s beloved holiday tradition returns with a festive concert of seasonal hits, and sacred and popular favorites. With the Dallas Symphony Chorus and Christmas Celebration Children’s Choir, it's a treat for the entire family during the most magical time of the year!
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JANUARY 11, 2014 PIXAR IN CONCERT From the Toy Story trilogy to The Incredibles and UP, Pixar has forever impacted filmmaking and The Dallas Symphony Orchestra © 2013 Dallas Symphony Orchestra given audiences of all ages some of the most beloved characters in cinematic history. Now, for the first time ever, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents Pixar in Concert, with visually stunning clips and memorable scores from each Disney/Pixar movie. Come experience Pixar film music as you never have before! JANUARY 16 – 18, 2014 NEW WORLD SYMPHONY JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, Conductor HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD, Piano Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 2 Dvorák, Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” This is music that captures the energy, exuberance, and promise of a great nation. Jaap van Zweden conducts Dvorák's love letter to America, the New World Symphony. Plus, experience Brahm's poetic Second Piano Concerto with the captivating Hélène Grimaud. JANUARY 23 – 26, 2014 BRAHMS 4 JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, Conductor MATTHIAS GOERNE, Baritone Britten, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Mahler, Des Knaben Wunderhorn
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Brahms, Symphony No. 4 The great strength of Brahms’s fourth and final Symphony places it among his most profound achievements. Jaap van Zweden and the Dallas Symphony present Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 plus Mahler’s songs of innocence, “The Youth’s Magic Horn,” as illuminated by the voice of Matthias Goerne. FEBRUARY 6, 7, 9, 2014 BERNADETTE PETERS She lights up the stage and sparkles on the silver screen. Now, Tony Award-winning singer Bernadette Peters joins the Dallas Symphony in a celebration of American song and Broadway showstoppers. “She has no peer in musical theater,” The New York Times declares. Marvin Laird conducts FEBRUARY 14 – 16, 2014 LOVE IS IN THE AIR Snuggle up with that special someone, and share the romance this Valentine’s Weekend with the Dallas Symphony. Music’s most passionate melodies are guaranteed to make you fall in love all over again! FEBRUARY 20 – 23, 2014 VERDI’S REQUIEM JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, Conductor HUI HE, Soprano MARIANNE CORNETTI, Mezzo-Soprano DAVID LOMELÍ, Tenor AIN ANGER, Bass DALLAS SYMPHONY CHORUS Directed by JOSHUA HABERMANN Verdi, Requiem It is a work of such imposing power; no music can match its scope and glory. The Dallas Symphony, Chorus, and soloists, all under the baton of Jaap van Zweden, present a concert of dramatic majesty with Giuseppe Verdi’s awe-inspiring Requiem.
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FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 2, 2014 BOLERO JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, Conductor LOUIS LORTIE, Piano Fauré, Pelléas et Mélisande Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21, “Elvira Madigan” Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 Ravel, Bolero It begins softly with a single snare drum, then, a flute. Gradually, each instrument of the Dallas Symphony joins in one after the other until Ravel’s Bolero reaches one of the greatest climaxes in all of music. Also, the brilliant Louis Lortie performs Mozart’s delicate Piano Concerto No. 21, “Elvira Madigan.” MARCH 7 – 8, 2014 REMIX ÁSTOR PIAZZOLLA: TANGO TO ARGENTINA A new DSO experience: faster-paced, diverse, and innovative programs, adult beverages you can bring into the hall, and a chance to meet the artists. Performances take place at Dallas City Performance Hall in the Arts District. Experience Piazzolla’s redhot take on The Four Seasons with the conductor of New York’s cutting edge (le) poisson rouge. MARCH 14 – 15, 2014 MUSIC OF JOHN DENVER His songs could reach to the highest mountaintops and touch the depths of the heart. Be there for Music of John Denver with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In this wonderful in-concert recreation, vocalist Jim Curry personifies John Denver at his finest. MARCH 20 – 22, 2014 RACHMANINOFF CONCERTO NO. 2 JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, Conductor ANNA FEDOROVA, Piano Shostakovich, Five Fragments Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 Copland, Symphony No. 3
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He was plagued by self-doubt and had abandoned his music, but when inspired to compose again, Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote the music that would make him immortal. 23-year old piano sensation Anna Fedorova performs Rachmaninoff’s ravishing Second Piano Concerto. Jaap van Zweden leads Aaron Copland’s stirring Third Symphony. MARCH 27 – 30, 2014 CHOPIN’S PIANO CONCERTO JAKUB HRUSA, Conductor JAN LISIECKI, Piano Brahms, Tragic Overture Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 2 Dvorák, The Water Goblin Janácek, Sinfonietta It was a young, desperate love that inspired this concerto by the teenage Frederic Chopin. Too shy to declare his feelings, he wrote: “I say to my piano what I would like to be saying to you…” Jan Lisiecki, just 18, performs this ardent declaration. These concerts also feature Janácek’s blazing Sinfonietta, a spectacular showpiece for the Dallas Symphony brass! APRIL 3 – 6, 2014 ROYAL FIREWORKS MUSIC OTTAVIO DANTONE, Conducts/Harpsichord Corelli, Concerto grosso Op. 6, No. 4 Gregori, Concerto grosso Op. 2, No. 2 Geminiani, Concerto grosso Op. 3, No. 4 Vivaldi, Concerto for Strings and Continuo in D Minor RV128 Handel, Concerto grosso Op. 6, No. 1 Handel, Water Music Suite No. 1 Handel, Music for the Royal Fireworks Experience the ornate ecstasy of the Baroque. Conducting from the harpsichord, Ottavio Dantone leads works of Vivaldi, Corelli, and Handel's regal Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music.
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APRIL 11 – 12, 2014 CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE Dazzling the eye and the ear, their feats will leave you breathless! Acrobats literally “drop” into the Meyerson as Lawrence Loh and the Dallas Symphony are joined by Cirque de la Symphonie—aerialists, contortionists, strongmen, and jugglers performing to music above and around the orchestra. MAY 1 – 3, 5, 2014 BEETHOVEN 9 JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, Conductor ALEXANDER KERR, Violin Conductor Jaap van Zweden NATHAN OLSON, Violin © 2013 Dallas Symphony Orchestra DALLAS SYMPHONY CHORUS Directed by JOSHUA HABERMANN Beethoven, Two Romances for Violin and Orchestra Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, “Choral” A not-to-be-missed concert experience: Hear, live in concert, the epic and timeless message of humanity and brotherhood when Music Director Jaap van Zweden leads the Dallas Symphony, Chorus, and soloists in Beethoven’s inspiring and monumental “Ode to Joy”, The Ninth Symphony. These concerts inaugurate a three-week Beethoven Festival of Symphonies, Concertos, and Chamber masterpieces. MAY 8 – 11, 2014 BRONFMAN PLAYS EMPEROR JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, Conductor YEFIM BRONFMAN, Piano Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”
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Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 “Yefim Bronfman is a virtuoso with chops that defy comparison,” says The New York Times. Yefim Bronfman plays Beethoven - the majestic “Emperor” Concerto. Jaap van Zweden leads the thrilling Seventh Symphony. MAY 15 – 18, 2014 BEETHOVEN’S 5TH JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, Conductor ALEXANDER KERR, Violin ALISA WEILERSTEIN, Cello MARTIN HELMCHEN, Piano Beethoven, Egmont Overture Beethoven, Triple Concerto Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 No other musical statement can match its raw power and bracing energy. Jaap van Zweden conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. And with concertmaster Alexander Kerr, dazzling cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and internationally hailed pianist Martin Helmchen, Beethoven’s joyous, rarely-encountered Triple Concerto, bringing the Beethoven Festival, and the season, to a magnificent conclusion! JUNE 6 – 8, 2014 HOLLYWOOD HITS The glamour and excitement of Tinseltown come alive when the Dallas Symphony presents famous movie soundtracks from films classic and new. Take your seat for the best in entertainment with music that ignites the senses in sonic splendor only heard at the Meyerson. Tickets & Contact Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center 2301 Flora Street Dallas, TX 75201 (214) 692-0203 www.dallassymphony.com
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Dallas Theater Center
One of the leading The Dallas Theatre Center (or officially the “Kalita Humphreys regional theaters in the Theater”) was opened in 1959 and country, Dallas Theater Center designed by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. (DTC) performs to an audience of more than 90,000 North Texas residents annually. Founded in 1959, DTC is now a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and presents its mainstage season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. DTC also presents at its original home, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the only freestanding theater designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright. DTC engages, entertains, and inspires a diverse community by creating experiences that stimulate new ways of thinking and living by consistently producing plays, educational programs, and community initiatives that are of the highest quality and reach the broadest possible constituency. JANUARY 16 – MARCH 2, 2014 OEDIPUS EL REY Written by LUIS ALFARO Directed by KEVIN MORIARTY Rhythms pound; violence escalates; a Chicano delinquent fights his way to the pinnacle of gangland power. But not even he can win the ultimate battle against fate. Sizzling, sexy, and startlingly contemporary, playwright Luis Alfaro’s adaptation tears
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A story of 1970s Brooklyn and beyond—of black and white, soul and rap, block parties and blackouts, friendship and betrayal, comic books and 45s, and the story of what would happen if two teenagers obsessed with superheroes believed that maybe, just maybe, they could fly... APRIL 25 – MAY 25, 2014 SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL ADVENTURE Adapted by STEVEN DIETZ Based on a Play by WILLIAM GILLETTE AND SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Directed by KEVIN MORIARTY
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The ageless appeal of the world’s greatest detective comes thrillingly to life in the regional premiere of a witty play filled with intrigue, humor and surprise. With stalwart sidekick Doctor Watson by his side, Holmes pursues a blackmail case that leads him straight into the lair of his arch-adversary, Professor Moriarty. Follow the clues with the clever duo on their mysterious adventure, told in true Holmes-Watson fashion. JUNE 27 – AUGUST 10, 2014 LES MISÉRABLES A Musical by ALAIN BOUBLIL AND CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG Based on a Novel by VICTOR HUGO Music by CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG Lyrics by HERBERT KRETZMER Directed by LIESL TOMMY
“Do you hear the people sing?” The most popular musical in the world takes over the Wyly Theatre with its glorious music and heartfelt story. In this thrilling new DTC production, you will be immersed in this beloved story in a way you’ve never experienced it before, surrounded by the passion of the French revolution; engulfed by the romantic music; and overwhelmed by the experience of hope, redemption and forgiveness. Tickets & Contact Dallas Theater Center 2400 Flora Street Dallas, TX 75201 (214) 526-8210 (General) (214) 880-0202 (Box Office) www.dallastheatercenter.org www.GuidefortheArts.com
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Lyric Stage
Dedicated to the development Scene from 1776 Photo Credit:Robert Hart and preservation of the American musical, Lyric Stage is Dallas County’s only locally produced, professional musical theater company. Under the leadership of Founding Producer Steven Jones, it has become North Texas’s most honored theater, winning 35 Dallas Theatre League Leon Rabin Awards and a special citation from the Dallas Theater Critics Forum for excellence and innovation. Lyric Stage has produced 17 world premiere musicals and two Off-Broadway productions. JANUARY 23 – 26, 2014 THE DESERT SONG IN CONCERT Under the baton of Lyric Stage’s music director Jay Dias, this concert presentation will feature the 35-piece Lyric Stage Orchestra, a cast of 40, and will be the first since the original 1926 Broadway production to feature Hammerstein II, Harbach, and Mandel’s original book. Keeping with Lyric Stage’s mission of restoring American musicals, maestro Dias discovered the original 1926 script at the Schubert Archives, and this script will be used for these four special concert performances.
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FEBRUARY 7 – 23, 2014 BLUE ROSES Lyric Stage presents the world premiere of Blue Roses, Nancy Ford and Mimi Turque’s musical adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Blue Roses stars Tony nominee Sally Mayes as Amanda Wingfield. Mayes is joined by Duke Monroe as Tom, Laura Lites as Laura and Kyle Cotton as Jim. JUNE 13 – 22, 2014 MAME Lyric Stage presents this classic musical based on the novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis. Mame Dennis’s eccentric, bohemian lifestyle is interrupted when her late brother's son is entrusted to her care. But rather than adopt any societal standards of child rearing, money-making, and romance, Mame does everything with her own dramatic flair. Tickets & Contact Irving Arts Center 3333 North MacArthur Boulevard Irving, TX 75062 (972) 252-2787 (Box Office) www.lyricstage.org
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Nasher Sculpture Center
Open to the public Arial View of Nasher Sculpture Center since October 20, 2003, the Nasher Sculpture Center is one of the few institutions in the world devoted to the exhibition, study, and preservation of modern sculpture. Conceived as a serene urban retreat for the enjoyment of modern art, the Sculpture Center is the new home of the renowned Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. The collection—which numbers more than three hundred sculptures together with twentieth-century paintings and drawings—rotate in thematic installations throughout the Center’s seamless blend of indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces: an elegant, light-filled 55,000ft2 building designed by Renzo Piano and a spacious garden created by Peter Walker.
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RETURN TO EARTH: CERAMIC SCULPTURE OF FONTANA, MELOTTI, MIRÓ, NOGUCHI, AND PICASSO, 1943–1963 SEPTEMBER 21, 2013 – JANUARY 19, 2014
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In the fall of 2013 the Nasher Sculpture Center will present Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943–1963, the first exhibition to explore the phenomenal increase in interest ceramics received from artists of the avant-garde during this period. Responding to a variety of personal impulses and historical circumstances, Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Joan Miró, Isamu Noguchi, and Pablo Picasso produced significant bodies of work in fired clay that engaged the material in novel, inventive, even radical ways, and often challenged the boundaries between sculpture and ceramics. The Nasher’s exhibition will offer an in-depth look at some 70 ceramic works ranging in scale from the intimate to the monumental. In most cases, these objects have received scant attention in comparison to these artists’ work in other media, particularly in the United States. Nonetheless, the works in the exhibition provided the next generation of artists, such as Ken Price and Peter Voulkos, radical examples of the expressive potential of fired clay and paved the way for the resurgence of ceramics in contemporary art today.
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NASHER XCHANGE OCTOBER 19, 2013 – FEBRUARY 16, 2014 To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center presents Nasher XChange, a dynamic public art exhibition consisting of 10 newly commissioned public sculptures by contemporary artists at 10 sites throughout the city of Dallas. The Nasher Sculpture Center is bringing its newest exhibit “to light.” Beginning this week and continuing through October 25, green searchlights will illuminate the Dallas night sky in celebration of the Nasher Xchange and its ten exhibits located throughout the city. SIGHTINGS ONGOING Sightings is a new series of small-scale exhibitions and installations that explore work by established and emerging contemporary sculptors from across Texas and around the world. Highlighting recent work, commissioning new installations, or exploring advances in contemporary sculptural practice, such exhibitions provide a forum to reconsider accepted notions and generate new ideas about modern and contemporary sculpture. The series also engenders opportunities for artists to engage the spaces of the Nasher Sculpture Center in new, thought-provoking ways, providing occasions to examine the evolving relationship between sculpture and architecture. Tickets & Contact Nasher Sculpture Center 2001 Flora Street Dallas, TX 75201 (214) 242-5100 www.nashersculpturecenter.org
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Texas Ballet Theater
Texas Ballet Theater Swan Lake Photo Credit: Steven Visneau brings world-class ballet to North Texas to engage our community, contribute to the cultural knowledge and inspire an appreciation for the art of dance. While educating and training the next generation of outstanding dancers, we encourage creativity, collaboration and expression, and seek to create a nationally recognized environment for dancers and choreographers to develop and showcase their talents. As the only fully professional, classical ballet company of the region, our Company consists of 42 dancers and two ballet academies serving a total of 365 students. Texas Ballet Theater truly is a vibrant component among North Texas’s diverse arts offerings. Texas Ballet Theater sets the standard for ballet productions in this region. In addition to presenting superlative ballet productions, Texas Ballet Theater’s mission also focuses on broadening dance education in the community with inventive and creative programs, while honoring the traditional teaching principles integral to the art form.
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DECEMBER 13 – 27, 2013 Bass Performance Hall THE NUTCRACKER The Nutcracker is a beloved holiday tradition for all ages. This classic story tells the tale of a young girl, Clara, who receives a Nutcracker and goes on a magical journey to discover the Land of Snow and Kingdom of Sweets alongside her Nutcracker Prince. Ben Stevenson’s new production opened in 2012 to rave reviews, highlighting the talented dancers and famous music with bright costumes and magnificent sets. Last December, The Dallas Morning News exclaimed, “Artistic Director Ben Stevenson delivers a complete theatrical experience with strong dancing, drama, humor and Texas-sized visual bling.” DECEMBER 20, 2013 Bass Performance Hall THE NUTTY NUTCRACKER For one special night only, Texas Ballet Theater will be trading in the holiday classic, The Nutcracker, for its PG-13 cousin, The Nutty Nutcracker. Incorporating side-splitting pop culture references into the traditional show makes The Nutty Nutcracker a great night out for comedy. A collaboration between artistic staff and dancers, Nutty is different every year, featuring the news and topical gossip of the past 12 months. Past shows have included a crossed Glinda the Good Witch, Abraham Lincoln, the Coke Polar Bears, President Obama, and the famous last dance of Dirty Dancing. FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 2, 2014 Bass Performance Hall EPIC MASTERPIECES: SERENADE & GLORIA
Gloria Choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan uses Francis Poulenc’s gorgeous choral score to create a haunting tribute to World War I in Gloria. Inspired by Vera Brittain’s autobiography, Testament of Youth, which describes how her life changed during World War I, MacMillan began to create a piece in honor of his father who was killed in the Battle of the Somme.
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The men portray soldiers and the women ghosts, as they illustrate the devastation of war and the memory of happier times. Gloria’s depiction of the futility of war is as relevant today as it was for its premiere in 1980.
Serenade The flowing blue skirts of Serenade exemplify beauty and innocence in what George Balanchine called “a dance in the moonlight” that was Gloria Photo Credit: Steven Visneau inspired by the student dancers of the School of American Ballet. When Balanchine came in one day, a student was standing with her arm up, blocking her eyes from the sun, and he thought it was so beautiful that it became the opening pose. The movements are accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s gorgeous Serenade for Strings in C. MARCH 28 – 30, 2014 City Performance Hall BALANCHINE AND BEYOND: SERENADE, L & CLANN
Serenade The flowing blue skirts of Serenade exemplify beauty and innocence in what George Balanchine called “a dance in the moonlight” that was inspired by the student dancers of the School of American Ballet. When Balanchine came in one day, a student was standing with her arm up, blocking her eyes from the sun, and he thought it was so beautiful that it became the opening pose. The movements are accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s
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L “L” is the first letter of many important words - laughter, love, and life. Choreographed by Ben Stevenson O.B.E. for eleven men, L is an expression of gratitude and a tribute to Liza Minnelli for the wonderful Serenade benefit performance she gave in Photo Credit: Steven Visneau 1974 to help the National Ballet of Washington. Set to an allpercussion score originally commissioned by the Houston Ballet, it is a tour de force for the men of Texas Ballet Theater. Clann, a world premiere by Carl Coomer Texas Ballet Theater is proud to present a world premiere ballet, choreographed by company member Carl Coomer. Clann is Coomer’s second opportunity to debut a piece with Texas Ballet Theater. In April of 2012 his piece Evolving was unveiled at the Portraits Ballet Festival at the Wyly Theatre in Dallas. The Dallas Morning News stated that the production included “near flawless dancing,” while Coomer described the piece as a mix of contemporary and classical with a touch of quirkiness thrown in. MAY 30 – JUNE 1, 2014 Bass Performance Hall SWAN LAKE Swan Lake’s romance and beauty has mesmerized audiences for over 100 years. Always a crowd favorite, Swan Lake takes Russian folklore to tell the story of young Odette who is turned into a swan by the evil Von Rothbart. Despite her new physical form, Odette falls deeply in love with Prince Siegfried. At the Royal Ball, Prince Siegfried is fooled by Von Rothbart into believing the
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sorcerer’s daughter, Odile, is his love Odette. He unknowingly professes his love for Odile, leaving Odette sick with heartbreak. In 2009, when Texas Ballet Theater last performed Swan Lake, Fort Worth Weekly praised the ballet’s portrayal of Odile saying, “Everything seemed right - the joy with which she seduced the prince and the technical fireworks she tossed off with all the snap, crackle, and pop you could wish for.” Tickets & Contact Fort Worth Office & School 1540 Mall Circle Fort Worth, TX 76116 (817) 763-0207 www.texasballettheater.org
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Turtle Creek Chorale
The legendary Turtle Turtle Creek Chorale Creek Chorale was founded in Photo: Michael Mcgary 1980 and includes more than 200 singing members who perform a full concert series at the Meyerson Symphony Center and Dallas City Performance Hall, as well as many outreach performances each year. The mission of the TCC is to create extraordinary musical experiences. All members of the Chorale are dues paying volunteers who donate over 100,000 hours to rehearsals, service projects and as many as 50 benefit performances annually. The TCC currently has four sub groups: Chamber Chorus, SoundBytes, Voices of Eight, and Camerata.Â
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DECEMBER 12, 2013, 8:00 P.M. DECEMBER 13, 2013, 8:00 P.M. DECEMBER 22, 2013, 2:30 P.M. Dallas City Performance Hall DECEMBERSONG: A TRADITIONAL HOLIDAY CONCERT Experience the magic of the season with the TCC as we share memories and music in this heartwarming holiday tradition. Decembersong will feature the season’s most beautiful holiday music coupled with humorous moments to make you smile. Of course, there will be moments of reflection too. Feel free to dance when the men perform “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” Laugh hysterically during “Nutcracker Jingles” and bring a tissue for “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”. DECEMBER 19 – 21, 2013, 8:00 P.M. Dallas City Performance Hall NAUGHTY & NICE: A VERY TURTLE CHRISTMAS II: LIZA’S WISH LIST In the sequel to the runaway hit of our 2012-13 Season, TCC and special guests give you a break from the traditional and bust out with naughty song and dance! Zaniness will ensue when “Liza” (BJ Cleveland) brings back the fun holiday shows hosted by her Mother – Judy Garland. This year, “Liza” will be joined by her wish list of guests including Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, and Patsy Cline. Plus, ensembles SoundBytes, Camerata, and Voices of Eight will serve up merriment too! FEBRUARY 21 – 22, 2014, 8:00 P.M. Latino Cultural Center ALEXANDER’S HOUSE Commissioned by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC, Alexander’s House is a funny, heartbreaking and powerful playwith-music. Alexander, a gay man suddenly passes away leaving behind his two unreconciled worlds—his partner and friends, and his estranged son, who finally meet at his summer home. The story explores finding truth in one’s life and the empowerment that comes with self-knowledge.
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APRIL 24 – 26, 2014, 8:00 P.M. Dallas City Performance Hall STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S SWEENEY TODD Following the smashing success of last spring’s production of Ragtime, TCC is thrilled to collaborate again with Uptown Players in a concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Director Michael Serrecchia and Music Director Trey Jacobs will lead a chorus of over 200 men and women performing this incredible score. The Tony Award winning musical thriller features “No Place Like London,” “God That’s Good,” “Joanna,” and “Worst Pies in London,” and is not to be missed! JUNE 20, 2014, 8:00 P.M. JUNE 21, 2014, 8:00 P.M. JUNE 22, 2014, 2:30 P.M. Dallas City Performance Hall DIVAS GONE… BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Our last concert of the season will be fun-filled, diva-licious evenings of music honoring some of the finest female vocalists in the world. Enjoy songs made popular by iconic pop stars like Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, and Karen Carpenter. All music genres will be highlighted from country and western (Tammy Wynette) to rock ’n roll (Janis Joplin). This incredibly fast-paced show will serve up one hit after another and have you humming (and maybe dancing) all the way home! Tickets & Contact Turtle Creek Chorale PO Box 190137 Dallas, TX 75219 (214) 526-3214 www.turtlecreek.org
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Contact Information DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: (214) 871-2842 DALLAS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: (214) 821-2522 DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: (214) 922-1803 DALLAS OPERA: (214) 443-1000 DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: (214) 692-0203 DALLAS THEATER CENTER: (214) 880-0202 LYRIC STAGE: (972) 252-2787 NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: (214) 242-5100 TEXAS BALLET THEATER: (817) 763-0207 TURTLE CREEK CHORALE: (214) 526-3214
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