Art Worth is a festival on the lawn at Will Rogers Memorial Center, celebrating the visual arts and classical music. Artists’ exhibitions, plus demonstrations of decorative arts disciplines, such as glass-blowing, metal pours, potters’ wheel, & wood-turning. Classial Music performed by area ensembles ranging from elementary and high schools to TCU’s Opera Studio and professional […]
A showcase celebration of the Cliburn’s last decade When Jacques Marquis was named president and CEO of the Cliburn ten years ago, he and his team inherited a treasure that had been passionately built by a host of dedicated leaders in the five decades prior. Working closely with the energetic staff, the gregarious Quebecer continued […]
A serious puppet show at the orchestra? Only at the Fort Worth Symphony, where the Canadian touring group Old Trout Puppet Workshop visits to bring Prokofiev’s colorful Peter and the Wolf to life with large-scale puppetry while the orchestra performs the score. Yep, that means puppet Peter, puppet bird, puppet wolf and the rest. To open the […]
1,000+ ARTISTS | LIVE MUSIC | FOOD & DRINK Celebrating 20 Years as the Near Southside's Premier Arts Event ArtsGoggle presented by Trinity Metro is Fort Worth's premier festival of local arts. This free to the public, family-friendly event annually hosts more than 1,000 visual artists, 50 musical performances, artistic displays of every kind, food, […]
The FWSO’s resident pianist, Shields-Collins (“Buddy”) Bray, needed a duet partner, and he found one in the ensemble’s President and CEO. Together, Cerny and Bray will tackle Bartók’s fiendish Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Next, musicians from the orchestra perform Mozart’s G Minor quintet — a string quartet plus an extra viola — in […]
For this program, the FWSO fronts one of its own. Principal Violist DJ Cheek, appointed in 2021, moves to the front of the stage for Bartók’s final composition, his Viola Concerto. That work launches with a pontificating viola solo in dialogue that quickly evolves into a prismatic exploration of musical color. Russian conductor Anna Skryleva […]
For this program, the FWSO fronts one of its own. Principal Violist DJ Cheek, appointed in 2021, moves to the front of the stage for Bartók’s final composition, his Viola Concerto. That work launches with a pontificating viola solo in dialogue that quickly evolves into a prismatic exploration of musical color. Russian conductor Anna Skryleva […]