February 2009

In this issue: Olafur Eliasson • Lincoln’s 200th • Ursulla Oppens • The Romantic Hours • The Grammy’s • Buying a Timepiece

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Monday– Dallas Center for the Performing Arts & Dallas Opera with Fedora Tuesday- Dallas Theater Center & Dallas Black Dance Theater with Screen Door Wednesday- Dallas Symphony & New Conservatory of Music and Young Strings Program of DSO with Dali Wine Bar Thursday- Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts & Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra with Jorge’s Friday - Dallas Wind Symphony, Arts District Chorale & Arts District Friends with Tei-An

In the heart of Collin County The Arts of Collin County (ACC) is a 100+ acre public-private partnership of the cities of Allen, Frisco and Plano, located in the center of Collin County at SH 121 and Custer Road. Design and all construction documents are complete for the 2100 seat performing arts hall. When construction ends, the hall will host touring attractions including Mike Simpson, Broadway shows, guest orchestras, popular Executive Director of music groups and dance as well as serving Arts of Colin County a variety of regional performing arts groups.

Mike Simpson, Executive Director of ACC said, “I’m confident in the people and businesses of the Metroplex to support the ACC and think our financial goal will be reached within the year.”

The surrounding arts park Meadow with event terrace, integrates the natural landscape with grill and outdoor stage the performing and visual arts. Enjoy the outdoor sculpture garden and The Meadows, a central community-gathering place with an event terrace, grill and outdoor stage. Hike and bike trails and the Rowlett Creek restoration surround this one of a kind arts hall constructed of limestone, granite and native Texas woods. All of this overlooks a beautiful meadow where families can relax, listen to outdoor concerts, picnic, watch a simulcast of a performance in the hall or just enjoy the scenery.

Mr. Simpson, former Mayor of Frisco, was named Executive Director of the ACC Dec. 1. Mr. Simpson’s highest priority is to secure private donations to close the $18-$20 million funding gap and begin construction on the performing arts hall.

To find out more about the project or contribute to the funding, visit www.artsofcollincounty.org Artist rendering of the 2,100 seat main hall

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Trammell Crow remembered 1914-2009

by Kurt Rongey

WRR has formed an exciting partnership with Dallas’ impressive new urban oasis, One Arts Plaza and D-Magazine. To celebrate, we are inaugurating a new Midday tradition which airs Feb. 2-6. For a full week every month, WRR will present ‘One Arts Week,’ broadcasting our popular Classic Café program from noon to one live from One Arts Plaza. This month will feature local arts institutions participating in the revolutionary Dallas Arts District, the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theater.

You can experience food provided by the sensational restaurants in One Arts Plaza. There will even be an opportunity for listeners to win dinner for two at one of these delicious dining destinations. Listen to WRR to find out how you can attend ‘One Arts Week.’ Be sure not to miss any of these special shows happening February 2-6 at the One Arts Plaza WRR Music Lounge.

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Trammell Crow passed away Jan. 14, 2009 at 94 leaving a legacy that will be remembered for generations.

His impact on the skyline of Dallas defines the city. From the Trammel Crow Center which houses the Crow Collection of Asian Art to Chase Tower and the newly developed One Arts Plaza his daughter Lucy Bill- Trammell Crow ingsley developed, to four other down- 1914-2009 town skyscrapers and Dallas’ largest hotel, Crow truly helped build present day Dallas.

But it’s his dedication to the arts and charitable causes we want to highlight.

Mr. Crow and his wife, Margaret, shared a lifelong passion for collecting fine art—particularly Asian art— during their many trips abroad. Mrs. Crow said that Chinese art, especially jade, always fascinated her husband.

“I cannot say why it is,” Mr. Crow once said, pointing to his heart, “but these objects move me.”

Desiring that everyone share this love for Asian Crow continued on page 2

Murchison Performing Arts Center 10-year anniversary The University of North Texas College of Music celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Murchison Performing Arts Center with Handel’s oratorio Saul, led by Dallas Opera Music Director Graeme Jenkins and featuring renowned UNT music faculty and student ensembles. The Feb. 5 concert is the first of two special events in the month-long celebration, “From Handel to Brubeck: Celebrating 10 Years of Musical The 2006 Samson performance feat.

Excellence at the Murchison Performing Graeme Jenkins and Richard Croft Arts Center.” A repeat performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6 at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in Dallas. The other bookend of the celebration will feature the Dave Brubeck Quartet, conducted by alumnus Russell Gloyd, on Feb. 26 (Thursday) with the UNT Symphony Orchestra, UNT Grand Chorus and UNT One O’Clock Lab Band.

UNT marked the grand opening of the 72,500-square-foot Murchison Performing Arts Center on Feb. 20, 1999. The Murchison, designed by Malcolm Holzman, of the award-winning firm Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, earned immediate critical and public acclaim, joining the ranks of the finest performing arts complexes in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

The Murchison houses two world-class performance venues: the Margot and Bill Winspear Performance Hall and the Lyric Theater as well as a large instrumental rehearsal hall, a box office, offices and support spaces.

In October, the University of North Texas College of Music inaugurated its new concert organ in the hall. The Richard Ardoin-Paul Voertman Concert Organ -- stretching nearly 35 feet tall at the center and weighing 8 metric tons -- was built in front of the pentagonal glass wall in the 1,025-seat hall.

Speaking of the performances that will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Murchison Performing Arts Center, Dr. James C. Scott, dean of the UNT College of Music, noted: “The special events we are producing for our anniversary month represent points of great pride for the College of Music and, over the course of the month, will utilize most of the larger performing resources of the College. The production of Saul is the fourth in a series of splendid Handel collaborations under Maestro Jenkins that bring together many of our outstanding students and faculty alongside leading professionals from this country and abroad.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet concert places one of America’s most celebrated ensembles in performances of Brubeck’s own music in collaboration with our Symphony Orchestra, Grand Chorus, and One O’Clock Lab Band. These collaborative performances, which could never have taken place before the Murchison was built, exemplify what is possible at UNT’s College of Music.”

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Take Your Time:

The Art of Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson, 360° room for all colours, 2002; stainless steel, projection foil, fluorescent lights, wood, and control unit; 126 x 321 x 321 in.; installation view at Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; Private collection, courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; © 2007 Olafur Eliasson

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) presents the internationally acclaimed exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, now through March 15.

Named one of the best exhibits of the year by Time Magazine, the DMA gathers installations, large-scale immersive environments, freestanding sculpture and photography from major public and private collections.

“Eliasson likes to be emotional and likes that his work provokes emotions,” said María de Corral, The Hoffman Family Adjunct Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA and the organizing curator of the Dallas presentation. “As visitors to this exhibition will see, for Eliasson, the viewer’s experience is important, and here, the title tells us more about that experience: Take your time refers to ‘the time the viewer decides to invest in looking at the work of art, and the time that the work of art engages the viewer and makes him/her stay to experience it.’”

Visit wrr101.com for more information on Take Your Time and clips from Eliasson speaking at the DMA about his work.

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by Matt Erikson “The Romantic Hours” + Valentine’s Day? Wouldn’t that make the show, well, “The Uber-Romantic Hours”?

Mona Golabek, the host of the syndicated poetry-plus-music program, chuckles at the thought. But she definitely has special plans for the four programs scheduled in February.

“It’s going to be a bit of a potpourri. We hope to skip around to different centuries and pay tribute to love through time,” she said in a phone interview. “We really have a global historical repertoire to choose from.”

The Valentine’s Day program on the 14th is still in the production phase but Golabek plans the best of listener submissions over the years: original poems, e-mail and journal selections many people have sent “The Romantic Hours” throughout its 10 year run. As a result, the program will feel more current than usual.

“That’s what we’re aiming for. We want to do this specific program in a way that’s contemporary and relates to people today — the 21st century and not the past.”

“The Romantic Hours” airs every Saturday night at 11 on WRR Classical 101.1.

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James McPherson, a bestselling author, Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner speaks at the Rosewood Crescent Hotel Feb. 12 about his new book, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. Tried by War illuminates how Lincoln worked with—and often against— his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and create the role of commander in chief as we know it.

Feb. 12 marks the bicentennial of the 16th President of the United States birth and WRR plans to celebrate the event with a special airing of Aaron Copland’s

Listen Up! Ursulla Oppens Plays Carter:

By Matt Erikson

Elliott Carter at 100 Ursula Oppens, piano Cedille Records

Elliott Carter isn’t the first living composer to have ever marked a 100th birthday. But he’s probably the most eminent one to reach such a milestone. In December, Carter’s complex but wonderfully nourishing music was played by orchestras and musical ensembles around the world. To help celebrate, the outstanding American pianist Ursula Oppens contributed a new CD featuring Carter’s complete piano music.

The CD surveys over sixty years of music by Carter, from his

And the Winner is...

by Matt Erikson

For Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya, 2008 was an auspicious year. He began it with a series of well-received concerts, leading the Fort Worth Symphony at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

He ended the year with his first-ever Grammy Award nomination.

Harth-Bedoya was specifically honored for his work with the Chicago Symphony, conducting the orchestra and soloist Wu Man in Lou Harrison’s Pipa Concerto. The performance on the disc Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Crow continued from page 1 art, in 1998, the Crows created an Asian art museum in the Dallas Arts District, The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, to hold the best pieces from the family’s collection and serve as a legacy for their children and grandchildren.

“Trammell Crow left an indelible footprint on the Dallas Arts District,” said Amy Hofland, Director of The Crow Collection. “His love of the East and its art flowed from his core, and we are so honored that he gave the community a chance to share in and experience that.”

Mr. Crow has been a significant contributor to diverse charitable endeavors including, The Trammell Crow Building at Southern Methodist University, Prison Fellowship Ministry, Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Society, National Tree Trust, Southwestern Medical Center, Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas and Pioneer Plaza.

Mr. Crow is survived by his wife, Margaret, their six children, Robert Crow, Howard Crow, Harlan Crow, Trammell S. Crow,

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Lincoln Portrait that evening. See wrr101.com for further details.

The Dallas Historical Society received national attention recently with the finding of what is believed to be a copy of the famed Bixby letter penned by Lincoln. The letter is still pending authentication by Sotheby’s.

The Tried by War book signing is being brought to you by the World Affairs Council of Dallas/ Fort Worth and sponsored in part by WRR Classical 101.

Piano Sonata of 1945-1946 (an incontrovertible masterpiece) to leaner, more playful works of the last decade. Listening to Carter’s music is like reading James Joyce or concentrating on a densely worded play: every ounce of attention is required to untangle multiple textures and potential layers of meaning. In these respects, Carter is the natural heir to Charles Ives. (In fact, Ives wrote a letter of recommendation for the teenage Carter to get accepted to Harvard University.) Yet Carter’s music is altogether unique and cannot be compared to any other so-called “avant-garde” American composer. A tour de force like “Night Fantasies” (1982) — heard here on this CD — inhabits a sound world that disturbs, delights and stuns, evoking emotions that you didn’t quite think yourself capable of feeling.

Only a bravura performer of the first magnitude could pull off the technical and psychological demands of Carter’s music. Oppens is a treasure. of Silk Road Chicago (recorded on the Chicago Symphony’s own label) was nominated for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance.

Recently, HarthBedoya has been active in cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, conducting concerts and recordings. For the especially curious, a pipa is a Chinese lute. The American-born Harrison had spent much of his compositional life immersed in the tunings and traditions from around the world.

Harth-Bedoya — and all the Metroplex— will have to wait until Sun., Feb. 8 to see if he wins the Grammy.

Lucy Billingsley, Stuart Crow, 16 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art is open to the public free of charge. It is located on Flora Street in the Arts District of downtown Dallas.

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February Programming Highlights

Dallas Chamber Music brings some of the most exciting chamber groups in the world right here to Dallas. The Miro Quartet, young and vivacious but well into its second decade of thrilling audiences, will be the subject of our Dallas Chamber Music Spotlight program Sunday, February 1 at 4:30 p.m.

February is the month of love at WRR. Is there someone for whom you’d like us to play a special piece of classical music? We invite you to let us know and tune in for Command Performance, starting at noon on Sundays. Send your requests to request@wrr101.com with a message for your loved one. We will be devoting the Command Performance show February 15 to these dedications.

Looking ahead, we’ll once again be presenting the WRR March March Countdown in, you guessed it, March! Every weekday morning at 7:35 from March 2-27, during our March of the Day, we’ll count down your 20 favorite marches. To cast your vote, go to WRR101.COM or send a postcard with your three favorite marches to WRR March March Countdown, P.O. Box 159001, Dallas, TX 75315. Ballots will be taken all through the month of February.

Buying a luxury timepiece You’ve contemplated it for years, window shopped, maybe peeked in one of those glass cases at Bachendorf’s… but with Valentine’s Day arround the corner, now is the perfect time to shop for that luxury watch, either for you or your significant other.

Harry and Elaine Yes, this is a Bock,owners of purchase that may cost more Bachendorf’s than your first car, but it’s also an investment… the kind you’ll be able to wear forever and pass along to your children.

So what are you looking for?

Let’s start with movement. Luxury watches are typically mechanical or self-wound meaning they don’t use batteries so you’ll have to wind that work of art from time to time but you don’t need to worry about battery gunk getting into the components.

Which brings us to craftsmanship. Luxury watches are often handmade and can have more than 800 parts (a standard quartz watch could have as few as 20 moving components.) Some luxury watch makers incorporate ‘skeleton backs’ allowing you to see the components in motion.

Complications, or, what else the watch can do are also key factors. Keeping time takes extreme precision. When you add the date, or the phases in the moon, or a stop watch or anything else, that makes the creation and design that much more precise.

Before you purchase, a few factors can affect which watch you may select. Brand, exclusivity, materials and the unique details all add up to why you are drawn to one watch

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over another. The case size, your lifestyle and personal style should all play a role in your decision. Is this a timepiece you’re wearing for your professional image, while entertaining or some time on the tennis court?

One of the helpful associates at Bachendorf’s can help guide you in making this important decision.

Long-time WRR advertiser and patron of the arts, Bachendorf’s Jewelers has been a family tradition in Dallas for over 60 years.

Abrahm Bock, Bachendorf’s founder, began custom designing and manufacturing jewelry as a Master Jeweler in St. Petersburg, Russia. He and his son, Harry, moved to Dallas in 1947 and re-established his diamond importing and manufacturing company. The first Bachendorf’s store opened in 1977 featuring the fine quality hand made custom jewelry and extensive collection of watches. Today Harry and his sons, the family’s fourth generation of jewelers, continue the family tradition.

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