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In the live music capital, Texas Performing Arts composes a contemporary vision for classical music performance by commissioning new works
PHOTO Texas Performing Arts Director Kathy Panoff knows how much of the general public would define classical music. “Music by dead white guys played by symphony orchestras,” says Panoff, a trained concert flutist. “The word ‘classical’ has been very narrowly defined, when classical music is truly like any other type of music, whether it’s indie… » Continue Reading
Modern and contemporary sculptures bring creative energy to campus in Landmarks public art program
Take It Outside: They arrived on campus from New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last month on flatbed trucks and tractor trailers: several towering giants of steel, iron and metal; a triad of tall, stately whip-thin spires; two carved, organic pieces, full of motion in black walnut and cherry wood. Seventeen sculptures (with 11 more arriving in January 2009) by some of the greatest artists of the mid-to-late 20th century were brought to campus through a new public art program called Landmarks at The University of Texas at Austin.