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Scott Cantrell

Dallas

Freelance Writer 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.

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6 May 25

Review: Dallas Bach Society delivers a dramatic Bach’s St. John Passion https://t.co/dWIhqYVHr7 For more great content like this subscribe to the Dallas News app here: https://t.co/DOT0hJGvIP

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