Scott Cantrell

Dallas

Classical Music Critic at The Dallas Morning News

Classical music critic for @DallasNews, also writing occasionally about art and architecture.

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With a 'Ring,' the Dallas Symphony Becomes a Wagner Destination

Oct 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Scott Cantrell

Richard Wagner conceived his four-opera "Ring" as a Gesamtkunstwerk: a marriage of poetry and music, for voices and orchestra, with coordinated sets, costumes and action. It's a huge, expensive challenge even for top opera companies, calling for powerful singers, an accomplished conductor and orchestra, and a stage director and designer who can enliven a convoluted epic of family dysfunction, greed, destruction and rebirth.
Review: Three works spanning 102 years, at Mimir Chamber Music Festival concert

Jul 11, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

FORT WORTH — Concerts at the annual Mimir Chamber Music Festival normally present ad hoc ensembles of musicians drawn from major symphony orchestras, chamber groups and conservatory faculties. But Tuesday night’s concert, at Texas Christian University’s PepsiCo Recital Hall, was organized around an established group, the Horszowski Trio. Comprising violinist Jesse Mills, cellist Ole Akahoshi and pianist Rieko Aizawa, the trio added extra string players as the program progressed.
Review: Fort Worth’s Mimir Chamber Music Festival opens with an enterprising program

Jul 4, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

FORT WORTH — Texas Christian University is a hive of musical activity each summer, with two festivals combining educational and concert activities. In June, it’s PianoTexas International Festival & Academy. July belongs to the Mimir Chamber Music Festival. In its 27th year, Mimir brings young string quartets and piano trios for concentrated coaching by musicians from major symphony orchestras, conservatories and chamber ensembles.
Pianist Eric Lu played meaningfully at PianoTexas, sometimes too much so

Jul 1, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

FORT WORTH — Winners of two of the world’s top piano competitions opened and closed the recital series at this year’s PianoTexas International Festival & Academy at Texas Christian University. Vadym Kholodenko, who took the gold medal in the 2013 Van Cliburn competition, played June 15 at TCU’s Van Cliburn Concert Hall. Eric Lu, top prizewinner in the 2018 Leeds Competition, played the final recital June 29. At age 37, Kholodenko sounded like a seasoned artist.
Dallas Symphony names new CEO

Jun 28, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra wasted no time finding its next president and CEO. Not two months after Kim Noltemy announced she was leaving to head the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the orchestra’s board on Friday named Michelle Miller Burns the DSO’s next chief executive. Burns, who will take over Sept. 23, is no stranger to the DSO.
Review: Julius Caesar and Galileo go operatic in St. Louis

Jun 26, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

ST. LOUIS — Along with Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis is a prime summer destination for American opera lovers. In its 49th season, the Missouri festival retains an enterprising identity all its own, its annual four-opera lineup mixing repertory staples with new and newish operas, and older works less often staged. For better and for worse, even standard works are often given novel productions. And everything is sung in English, with texts displayed on video screens.
Fine playing by winners of the Dallas Chamber Symphony’s International Piano Competition

Jun 19, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

British-born pianist Adam Jackson, now studying at the Juilliard School in New York, took the $2,500 first prize and the $500 audience choice award Tuesday night in the Dallas International Piano Competition. Sponsored by the Dallas Chamber Symphony, the contest awarded the $1,500 second prize to Taiwan native Yi-Chen Feng and the $1,000 third prize to Boston pianist Seho Young. The first prize also includes a paid engagement with the DCS in the 2024-25 season.
2013 Cliburn Competition winner Vadym Kholodenko performs in PianoTexas festival

Jun 17, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

FORT WORTH — Vadym Kholodenko “sealed his triumph with a stunning performance of the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto and an elegantly detailed Mozart Concerto No. 21, and he had been a rock-solid performer all the way through.” So wrote a certain critic of the then 26-year-old Ukrainian’s first-prize win in the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Dallas Symphony in Europe: An electrifying Tchaikovsky Pathétique in Vienna

Jun 13, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

VIENNA — It’s hard to think of another city that can match the rich musical history of this Austrian capital. By birth or adoption, its musical luminaries have included Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg. Home to the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony and Vienna Radio Symphony, night after night its concert halls also present the world’s most famous touring ensembles.
Dallas Symphony in Europe: A concert in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie

Jun 12, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

HAMBURG — The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s European tour has hit a snag that didn’t exist on its last visit here, in 2013. By June 11, halfway through the current tour, 12 musicians had come down with COVID-19. Cases have been handled on the basis of severity. Everyone is recovering, according to the DSO, and some have been cleared to return to playing.

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Articles

With a 'Ring,' the Dallas Symphony Becomes a Wagner Destination

Review: Three works spanning 102 years, at Mimir Chamber Music Festival concert

Review: Fort Worth’s Mimir Chamber Music Festival opens with an enterprising program

Pianist Eric Lu played meaningfully at PianoTexas, sometimes too much so

Dallas Symphony names new CEO

Review: Julius Caesar and Galileo go operatic in St. Louis

Fine playing by winners of the Dallas Chamber Symphony’s International Piano Competition

2013 Cliburn Competition winner Vadym Kholodenko performs in PianoTexas festival

Dallas Symphony in Europe: An electrifying Tchaikovsky Pathétique in Vienna

Dallas Symphony in Europe: A concert in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie

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