Booker T: The Next Generation Forty mourners are currently at the

Dallas Museum of Art. Each is about fifteen inches tall, and they once surrounded the tomb of the Burgundian prince, John the Fearless.

The master sculptors who created these figures worked the soft alabaster to create each mourner as an individual char-acter. There are clerics, choirboys, and lay-men, each showing his grief in his own fash-ion.

I saw The Mourners last spring at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, their first stop on a seven-city U.S. tour. I noticed the two rows of little men, remembered that they were headed to Dallas, and thought I should take a look when I passed back by. Perhaps these moments are always best when lest expected, but within a minute of looking more closely at the works, I knew this would be one of the most moving experiences I had ever had in a museum.

Despite their realism, the alabaster figures are not por-traits, and although we admire them now as significant works of late Medieval art, they are a secondary element to the ac-tual tomb. The focus would have been on the figure of John himself, lying in state, eyes open to heaven, arms clasped in prayer, and attended by angels. But modern viewers will be attracted to the lively variety of the solemn figures.

Printed with permission by Arts+Culture magazine. See the full story on The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculp-tures from the Court of Burgundy Oct. 3- Jan. 2, 2011 in the October 2010 issue, distributed throughout Dallas-Fort Worth monthly.

Find out where you can pick up your copy at artsandculturedfw.com or wrr101.com

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Guests of WRR’s Labor Day Picnic at NorthPark were treated to the Booker T. Washington high School for the Performing and Visual Arts R&B Ensemble led by Roger Boykin. These talented young musicians are among the 700 students enrolled at DISD’s arts magnet high school honing their artistic skills and fulfilling their academic work. They are the rising stars of stage, dance and the visual arts, following in the footsteps of some very distinguished alumni (Erykah Badu, Roy hargrove, Nora Jones, Sandra St. Victor, Edie Brickell…).

Essential to the artistic development of these young artists is presenting their work to the public. With the recently-completed expansion and renovation of the school, the Booker T. students have professional-grade performing and exhibition spaces on the school’s campus in the Dallas Arts District.

The 2010-11 academic year is mirrored by a multi-disciplinary season of dance recitals, music concerts, plays and exhibitions. Booker T. theater students will join more than 10 North Texas theater companies for the 2011 horton Foote Festival, staging three one-act plays A Young Lady of Property, The Dancers and Courtship in April, while the music students will perform Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (WRR’s Top 40 Classical winner!) in December. Seniors in the dance program will perform solo work in the Portraits Dance Concert in November, while visual arts students showcase their mastery of multiple media in monthly exhibitions like Scrap Can Be Beautiful, to be held In January.

These are just a few of the performances and events that will take place at the Montgomery Arts Theater or the hudson Gallery at Booker T. during the year, giving us a glimpse of the exciting future of the arts in North Texas. For more information about Booker T. Washington high School and their performing and visual arts programs, please visit dallasisd.org/btw.

A Stradivarius Tale on WRR’s Classic Café

Michael Shih, Concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, joined WRR’s Tempie Lindsey Monday, Oct. 4, for the Classic Cafe and discussed the legendary 1710 Davis Stradivarius violin.

This priceless instrument was crafted by famed violin maker Antonio Stradivari three centuries ago and since 1981 has been with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra through the generosity Mr. and Mrs. William S. Davis.

In October, to celebrate the 300th anni-versary of the instrument, FWSO Concertmas-ter Michael Shih will take the stage to perform the beautiful Mendelssohn Violin Concerto – the same piece performed at the inaugural concert of the Davis Stradivarius in Fort Worth in 1981.

Universally regarded as the finest vio-lins ever made, the instruments crafted by Ital-ian violin maker Antonio Stradivari are treasured for the elegance of their sound. Stradivari had a

very long career, making instruments from the 1680s well into the 1730s, but his “golden pe-riod” is the years from 1700 to 1720. The 1710 Davis Stradivarius was crafted during this time period. No one truly knows exactly why the sound of the Stradivarius violin is so wonderful, but there are many theories as to what makes a violin a good violin. The quality of the wood is a definite factor, as well as the shape of the instrument, the thickness of the wooden plates that are placed in the belly and the back of the instrument, and the varnish on the wood. Of the more than 1,100 instruments Stradivari made, only 650 are known to survive today.

The concerts take place October 8-10 at Bass Performance hall. Visit fwsymphony.org or 817-665-6000 for ticket details.

WRR will air this performance Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. during The Fort Worth Symphony Orches-tra presents broadcasts.

Mourners grace Dallas Museum of Art

By guest columnist Charles Dee Mitchell

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here are some of the new classical releases you’ll be hearing in the month of October on WRR.

Hilary Hahn: Higdon and Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos (Deutsche Grammophon B0014698) - The Liverpool recording of Jennifer higdon’s Pulitzer Prize work is finally available. hahn plays it with a precision and passion that borders seemingly at the edge of the impossible as witnessed during its Texas premiere last spring at the Meyerson. The Tchaikovsky makes a delightful companion.

Schumann: The Piano Trios (Ars Musici 232281, a 2-CD set) - WRR’s salute to the composer during his bicentennial year continues with probing interpretations of the three works for violin, cello and piano. Also included on the recording is new music composed by Wolfgang Rihm, born in 1952.

William Hayes: The Passions (Glossa 922501) Fans of handel’s oratorios like Messiah and Judas Maccabeus will relish this extravagant Ode to Music written in 1750 by Oxford music professor hayes. Baroque authority Anthony Rooley expertly directs this jubilant raft of great choruses and colorful orchestrations.

Julia Fischer: Paganini 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (Decca B0014658) - The award-winning virtuoso presents her reading of the “Mount Everest” of the solo violin repertory. Critics hail her playing as more “than a fiery technique, she expresses musical truths.”

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This exhibition was organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, and has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional support is provided by ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations). The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Incense burner with a deity with aquatic elements (detail), 700–750, Palenque, Mexico. Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes––Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Museo de Sitio de la Zona Arqueológia de Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico. Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, Photograph © 2009 Jorge Pérez de Lara

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THROUGH JANUARY 2, 2011

Seems like it was just yesterday… but the AT&T Performing Arts Center is already celebrating its first anniversary! Joining in the celebration is the entire Dallas Arts District with a month worth of events. The schedule promises something for every-one, including a spotlight on the newest addition to the AT&T PAC, the Annette Strauss Artist Square. See the insert later in Overture for a full list of events.

We’ve been reminiscing on the many memorable moments in the Dallas Arts District over the years. We challenged the WRR announcers to tell us their fondest memory of this first year of the AT&T PAC:

Amy Bishop, Morning Show- “I still remember that crisp October morning when I hosted the Morning Show with guests Quin Mathews and Sharon Benge live from One Arts Plaza during the opening ceremonies of the AT&T PAC.”

Ed Blaylock, Evening Concert- “Where else in this country do you have such an expansive venue of great performance halls, such as our Win-spear Opera house where I was fortunate enough to see the world premiere of Jake heggie’s opera Moby Dick?”

Tempie Lindsey, Midday Music- “My first official appearance as the new host of Midday Music on WRR was to introduce David Sanborn on an outdoor stage be-tween the Wyly and the Winspear! The weather was perfect, the crowd was excited, and we all knew that the “vision” of the Arts District was coming alive!”

Kevin Pytcher, Going Home Show- “The memory of pia-nist Gabriela Montero performing live for the Classic Café at One Arts Plaza is still with me. I was blown away how she took modern sounding tunes and wove them together into a compelling Ba-chian improvisation. her now legendary talent was on display and

I was there to hear it first-hand.”

Kurt Rongey, Classical Weekend Evening- “There have been many great per-formances, but the image that sticks with me the most is probably the awesome sight of a full size four-story house on the stage of the Winspear for August: Osage County.”

Barry Samsula, Classical Weekend Daytime- “The thing I remember most about the opening of the AT&T PAC was witnessing the Dallas Opera’s world-premiere of Moby Dick. The combination of brand new music set to an established piece of lit-erature with high-tech video and staging added up to quite an experience.”

A Year in the Life: AT&T Performing Arts Center Turns 1!

Bach to Bachendorf’s

Join WRR and Dallas Chamber Music in welcoming the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Great Quintets Monday, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. This is the debut of Lincoln Center’s Great Quintets ensemble since the appointments of Artistic Directors, David Finckel and Wu han.

The concert opens the Dallas Chamber Music’s 66th season featuring a remark-able line-up of musicians including violinists Ani and Ida Kavafian with Mark holloway and Paul Neubauer, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, and clarinetist David Shifrin.

The all-quintet program features three outstanding examples of the genre: Mozart’s Viola Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614; Mendelssohn’s Viola Quintet in A Major, Op. 18, and Brahms’s sublime Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115.

Visit wrr101.com or dallaschambermusic.org for more details.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center comes to SMU

The Dallas Opera’s second season at the Win-spear Opera house is close at hand. WRR is anticipat-ing it with a big helping of on-air festivities.

Listen in on Saturday, Oct. 9 at noon as Suzanne Calvin gets the latest from Moby Dick creators Jake heggie and Gene Scheer on “Inside the Dallas Opera.”

Our Encore Performance schedule wraps up with Puccini’s Madame Butterfly Oct. 5 and Moby Dick Oct. 12 at 8 p.m..

WRR broadcasts the third installment in Doni-zetti’s “Tudor Trilogy” of Anna Bolena live Oct. 29 starting at 7:30 p.m. Witness the last days of the woman whose ambitions altered the course of European history. Soprano hasmik Papian, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, tenor Stephen Costello and bass Oren Gradus lead a superb international cast.

See wrr101.com and thedallasopera.org for more details.

The holidays are just around the corner! Please join the Visiting Nurse Association for its annual holiday Gift Wrap on November 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., De-cember 1 from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. and December 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Patrick and Beatrice haggerty Center at 1440 W. Mockingbird Lane in Dallas.

Volunteers of all ages are needed to wrap pres-ents and assemble gift bags that will be delivered during the Christmas season to VNA’s Meals on Wheels recipi-ents and hospice patients. Nearly 4000 gift bags will help make the holidays brighter for frail, elderly, sick and disabled residents of Dallas County.

Lend a hand and meet WRR “Classic Café” host Tempie Lindsey at the holiday Gift Wrap from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on December 1!

Donations of toothpaste, toothbrushes, sham-poo, and similar personal care items are also needed for the gift bags. Schools, churches, civic organizations, and other groups are welcome to help with drives to col-lect these items, too.

For additional information about the Visiting Nurse Association’s holiday Gift Wrap, contact Nancy Jellinek, manager of VNA’s Eldercare Friends program, at 214-689-2209 or jellinekn@vnatexas.org.

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Join the Visiting Nurse Association for Its Annual Holiday Gift Wrap!

WRR airs Anna Bolena live

Seems like it was just yesterday… but the AT&T Performing Arts Center is already celebrating its first anniversary! Joining in the celebration is the entire Dallas Arts District with a month worth of events. The schedule promises something for every-one, including a spotlight on the newest addition to the AT&T PAC, the Annette Strauss Artist Square. See the insert later in Overture for a full list of events.

We’ve been reminiscing on the many memorable moments in the Dallas Arts District over the years. We challenged the WRR announcers to tell us their fondest memory of this first year of the AT&T PAC:

Amy Bishop, Morning Show- “I still remember that crisp October morning when I hosted the Morning Show with guests Quin Mathews and Sharon Benge live from One Arts Plaza during the opening ceremonies of the AT&T PAC.”

Ed Blaylock, Evening Concert- “Where else in this country do you have such an expansive venue of great performance halls, such as our Win-spear Opera house where I was fortunate enough to see the world premiere of Jake heggie’s opera Moby Dick?”

Tempie Lindsey, Midday Music- “My first official appearance as the new host of Midday Music on WRR was to introduce David Sanborn on an outdoor stage be-tween the Wyly and the Winspear! The weather was perfect, the crowd was excited, and we all knew that the “vision” of the Arts District was coming alive!”

Kevin Pytcher, Going Home Show- “The memory of pia-nist Gabriela Montero performing live for the Classic Café at One Arts Plaza is still with me. I was blown away how she took modern sounding tunes and wove them together into a compelling Ba-chian improvisation. her now legendary talent was on display and

I was there to hear it first-hand.”

Kurt Rongey, Classical Weekend Evening- “There have been many great per-formances, but the image that sticks with me the most is probably the awesome sight of a full size four-story house on the stage of the Winspear for August: Osage County.”

Barry Samsula, Classical Weekend Daytime- “The thing I remember most about the opening of the AT&T PAC was witnessing the Dallas Opera’s world-premiere of Moby Dick. The combination of brand new music set to an established piece of lit-erature with high-tech video and staging added up to quite an experience.”

Spanish Brass, a quintet from Valencia, Spain, makes their Dallas debut at the Latino Cultural Center on Sunday, October 10 at 3 p.m. in the Oak Farms Dairy Performance hall.

One of the world’s top brass quintets, these five musicians bring their special take on great works from Bach and Ellington to Latin-American and Spanish favorites from d’Rivera and Albéniz. Spanish Brass has given hundreds of concerts at presti-

gious venues around the world in a career spanning 20 years. “The Latino Cultural Center is thrilled to be able to

bring this international group to Dallas,” notes Maria Munoz-Blanco, Dallas Director of Cultural Affairs and Acting General Manager of the Latino Cultural Center. “The LCC theater is a great space for music and we can’t wait to hear the lively sounds of Spanish Brass!”

Listen to the Classic Café with Tempie Lindsey Friday, Oct. 8 as she talks with Munoz-Blanco about the performance and what else the Latino Cultural Center has planned this sea-son.

For tickets or to learn more about Spanish Brass, visit dallasculture.org/latinoculturalcenter/

Spanish Brass blows in to the Latino Cultural Center

Bach to Bachendorf’sThe Dallas Bach Society returns to

Bachendorf’s Jewelry at the Plaza at Preston Center Saturday, Oct. 9 from 1-3 p.m.

Join WRR’s Classical Weekend host Kurt Rongey and members of the Dallas Bach Society as we look at the upcoming season, hear about some of the highlights (including a few exclusive concerts available only to season subscribers) and maybe even get a live perfor-mance or two!

We’ll talk about the upcoming concert at the Dallas Museum of Art, Subtilitas- Music for the Dukes of Burgundy, Sunday Oct. 10. The music in this concert was cho-sen to compliment the art of the new exhibition Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures, featured elsewhere in Overture.

The Dallas Bach Society’s 2010-2011, The Brandenburg Season features guest artists like hopkinson Smith, performances in a variety of Dallas’ most sacred churches, several house Concerts, as well as several family and holiday favorites.

Visit wrr101.com and dallasbach.org for more details.

Join WRR and Dallas Chamber Music in welcoming the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Great Quintets Monday, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. This is the debut of Lincoln Center’s Great Quintets ensemble since the appointments of Artistic Directors, David Finckel and Wu han.

The concert opens the Dallas Chamber Music’s 66th season featuring a remark-able line-up of musicians including violinists Ani and Ida Kavafian with Mark holloway and Paul Neubauer, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, and clarinetist David Shifrin.

The all-quintet program features three outstanding examples of the genre: Mozart’s Viola Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614; Mendelssohn’s Viola Quintet in A Major, Op. 18, and Brahms’s sublime Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115.

Visit wrr101.com or dallaschambermusic.org for more details.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center comes to SMU

1 Friday

7:30p  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly7:30  Quilters; FUMC8  TBT, Cinderella; Winspear

2 Saturday

SPOTLIGHT DAY – OPENING CELEBRATION 10a-6:30p

Opening: Sightings: Alyson Shotz; NasherOpening: Tibet: The Land Closest to the Sky, Photographs by Marc Riboud; Crow Collection10a  *FREE Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet   at ceremonial entrance of DMA10  FREE admission, Target First   Saturday; Nasher10  FREE AdventureAsia, Family Day;   Crow Collection10  FREE [we]ekends at the DMA10:30  FREE Lecture, Mark Melson;   Meyerson11  FREE Mary Preston Organ Recital;   Meyerson12p  FREE Sneak Peek of The Mourners   exhibit; DMA2  DTC, Pay-What-You-Can Henry IV;   Wyly2  TBT, Cinderella; Winspear3  FREE curator-led tour of The   Mourners exhibit; DMA4  *FREE Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet   at ceremonial entrance of DMA

7:30p  Quilters; FUMC8  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly8  DSO, Holst: The Planets; Meyerson8  TBT, Cinderella; Winspear

3 Sunday

Opening: The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy; DMA10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection11  [we]ekends at the DMA2p  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly2  TBT, Cinderella; Winspear2:30  DSO, Holst: The Planets; Meyerson

5 Tuesday

10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection11  FREE admission, First Tuesday; DMA6:15p  FREE Meditation with Maria Kannon;   Crow Collection7:30  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly

6 Wednesday

10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection12:15p  Gallery Talk; DMA 7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS7:30  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly8  Samar Under the Stars; Samar by   Stephan Pyles

7 Thursday

Opening: AIA Dallas Design Awards Exhibition; Dallas Center for Architecture10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection5p  Thursday Night Live; DMA

7 Thursday

6p  Jazz in the Atrium; DMA5:30  FREE Patio Sessions; Sammons Park6  Crow Collection, Silk Road Lounge;   BTWHS7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS7:30  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly

8 Friday

10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection7:30p  Quilters; FUMC8  DSO, Liza Minelli; Meyerson8  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly

9 Saturday SPOTLIGHT DAY – DANCEAFRICA 

10a  DBDT, DanceAfrica; Annette Strauss   Square

11a  [we]ekends at the DMA2p  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly8  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly8  DSO, Liza Minnelli

10 Sunday

SPOTLIGHT DAY – DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT MEMBER & SUBSCRIBER DAYvisit www.TheDallasArtsDistrict.org/ArtInOctober for more info

11a  Member & Subscriber Day; DMA,   Nasher, Crow, Meyerson, Winspear

10a  Fiesta Latinoamericana;   Flora Street, between Pearl & Routh11  [we]ekends at the DMA12p  TDO 2010-2011 Dangerous Desires   Season Preview Day; Winspear2  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly2  DADA 25th Anniversary Film   Screening; DMA7  Dallas Bach Society, SUBTILITAS:   Music for the Dukes of Burgundy;   DMA8  DSO, Savion Glover at the Meyerson

12 Tuesday

6:15p  FREE Meditation with Maria Kannon;   Crow Collection7:30  Arts & Letters Live, Sara Gruen; DMA

13 Wednesday

12:15p  Gallery Talk; DMA6  Pecha Kucha, Vol. 4; Wyly7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS7:30  Architecture Film Series: Metropolis;   Dallas Center for Architecture8  Samar Under the Stars; Samar by   Stephan Pyles

14 Thursday

5p  Thursday Night Live; DMA5:30  FREE Patio Sessions; Sammons Park6  Jazz in the Atrium; DMA7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS7:30  State of the Arts with Kevin Moriarty   and Anne Pasternak; DMA8  DSO, Brahms: A German Requiem   (Jaap van Zweden); Meyerson

15 Friday SPOTLIGHT DAY – MUSEUM BLOCK PARTY all museums open til midnight

6p  Late Nights at the DMA 6  FREE Crow Collection After Dark 6  til Midnight at the Nasher8  FREE Crow Collection & DFS,   Godzilla; Flora Street 

7p  TDO, Amici di Opera,   Season Launch Party ; Winspear7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS8  DSO, Brahms: A German Requiem   (Jaap van Zweden); Meyerson

16 Saturday

10a  *Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet at   ceremonial entrance of DMA11  [we]ekends at the DMA8p  DSO, Brahms: A German Requiem   (Jaap van Zweden); Meyerson

17 Sunday

11a  [we]ekends at the DMA3p  TDO, Opera Insights: Anna Bolena;   DMA8  DSO, Ravi Shankar; Meyerson

18 Monday

8p  TCC, A Night for Peace; Meyerson

19 Tuesday

6:15p  FREE Meditation with Maria Kannon;   Crow Collection7:00  Arts & Letters Live, Steven Johnson;   DMA8  DWS, Star Wars; Meyerson

20 Wednesday

12:15p  Gallery Talk; DMA8  Samar Under the Stars; Samar by   Stephan Pyles

21 Thursday

Opening: Black Current: Mexican Responses to Japanese Art, 17th - 19th Centuries; Crow Collection5p  Thursday Night Live; DMA6  Jazz in the Atrium; DMA5:30  FREE Patio Sessions; Sammons Park8  DSO, Magical Mendelssohn (Jaap   van Zweden); Meyerson

22 Friday

SPOTLIGHT DAY – DALLAS OPERA OPENING NIGHT

7:30p  TDO, Don Giovanni; Winspear 

8p  DSO, Magical Mendelssohn (Jaap   van Zweden); Meyerson

23 Saturday

11a  [we]ekends at the DMA1p  360: Artists, Curators & Critics with   Michael Corris; Nasher3  Fine Arts Chamber Players, Bancroft   Family Concert; DMA

23 Saturday

8p  DSO, Magical Mendelssohn (Jaap   van Zweden); Meyerson

24 Sunday

8a  Uptown Run; Starts and ends at   Sammons Park11  [we]ekends at the DMA2p  TDO, Don Giovanni; Winspear2:30  DSO, Magical Mendelssohn (Jaap   van Zweden); Meyerson

 

8  Kirk Franklin, Benefiting Central Dallas Ministries; Meyerson

26 Tuesday

5p  *Dallas Arts District Tour: Sacred   Spaces of the District; FUMC,   SPUMC, Cathedral6:15  FREE Meditation with Maria Kannon;   Crow Collection8  DSO, The Academy of St. Martin in   the Fields with Jonathan Biss;   Meyerson

27 Wednesday

12:15p  Gallery Talk; DMA7:30  TDO, Don Giovanni; Winspear8  Samar Under the Stars; Samar by   Stephan Pyles

28 Thursday

5p  Thursday Night Live; DMA6  Jazz in the Atrium; DMA5:30  FREE Patio Sessions; Sammons Park7:30  Brettell Lecture: Rodin, His Collectors,   and The Gates of Hell, DMA

29 Friday

7:30p  TDO, Anna Bolena; Winspear8  DSO, Psycho; Meyerson

30 Saturday

11a  [we]ekends at the DMA3p  Undermain Theater Group, Play   Reading: The Golem; DMA7:30  TDO, Don Giovanni; Winspear8  DSO, Psycho; Meyerson

31 Sunday  

SPOTLIGHT DAY – CLOSING CELEBRATION 11a-5p

11a  FREE admission, Family Celebration;   DMA11  FREE admission; Nasher11  FREE admission; Crow Collection11  FREE Fall Block Party; One Arts Plaza11:30  *FREE Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet   at ceremonial entrance of DMA1:30  FREE Pre-Concert Activities;   Meyerson2p  TDO, Anna Bolena; Winspear2:30  DSO, Symphonic Spook-Tacular;   Meyerson3  DBDT African Masks Performance;   DMA 4  *FREE Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet   at ceremonial entrance of DMA

calendar of events

25 Monday

CELEBRATING THE DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT

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DAY PART SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

5 AM Music All Night with Peter Van de Graaff

Music All Night with Peter Van de Graaff

6 AM

7 AM

First United Methodist Church

Richardson

Christ Church Plano

(Anglican)

8 AMChristian Science Sentinel

Classical Saturday with Barry Samsula

Wilshire Baptist Church

9 AMUniversity

Park Methodist

Lovers Lane United Methodist

10 AMPastoral

Reflections

Midday MusicWith Tempie Lindsey

Featuring The Classic Cafe at noon

Classical Saturday with Barry Samsula

St. Andrews Episcopal

11 AMPreston hollow

Presbyterian

NOON

Classical Sunday

with Barry Samsula

1 PM

2 PM

3 PM

4 PM

Classical Sunday with Kurt Rongey

Classical Saturday with Kurt Rongey

5 PMArts

Spotlight *

Art Matters

6 PM Classical Sunday with Kurt Rongey Art Matters

7 PMSymphony

Cast

Exploring MusicWith Bill McGlaughlin

8 PM Dallas Symphony Orchestra*

The Dallas Opera

Broadcast

Fort Worth Symphony

New York Philharmonic this Week

Command Performance

9 PMPerformance

TodayPerformance

Today

10 PM

Pipedreams with

Michael Barone

A Night on the

Town with George harter

11 PM

MIDNIGHT

Music All Night with Peter Van de Graaff

1 AM

2 AM

3 AM

4 AM

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Station Program Schedule

The Morning Showwith Amy Bishop

The Going Home Showwith Kevin Pytcher

The Morning Showwith Amy Bishop

The Going Home Showwith Kevin Pytcher

The Evening Concertwith Ed Blaylock

WRR Notable Programs

Arts Update: 6:52 a.m., 8:52 a.m. and 4:52 p.m. week-days - Your source for arts listings covering the eve-ning’s events as well as those a couple days ahead.

Road Rage Remedy: 7:20 a.m. and 5:20 p.m. week-days - WRR will calm your rush hour commute with music to soothe the nerves. Relax and enjoy the ride!

March of the Day: 7:35 a.m. weekdays - having trou-ble getting around in the morning? WRR will get you in step with some of the world’s most upbeat music -- Marches! Sponsored by Dougherty’s Pharmacy.

The Wine Experience: 6:20 p.m. weekdays - Presents topics relating to choosing and enjoying wine such as matching wine with different foods, virtual walks through vineyards and shopping tips.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra: 8 p.m., some Mondays. Complete concert performances of the Dallas Sym-phony Orchestra from the Meyerson Symphony Cen-ter.

Arts Calendar: 5:30 p.m. Thursdays - An extended arts event listing covering the upcoming week, presented by Kevin Pytcher.

New York Philharmonic this Week: 8 p.m. Thursdays - America’s musical ambassadors perform from Avery Fisher hall.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: 8 p.m. Wednesdays- Miguel harth-Bedoya conducts the orchestra in com-plete broadcasts from the Symphonic Series.

From the Top:9 a.m. Saturdays - Some of the nation’s most gifted young musicians take the stage for this in-spiring and funny program.

Inside the Dallas Opera: Noon Saturdays, once a month - A behind-the-scenes look at the Dallas Opera including past performances, interviews with staff and artists plus upcoming engagements. Times vary.

A Night on the Town: 10 p.m. Saturdays - From Rich-ard Rodgers to Andrew Lloyd Webber, George harter brings you the best of the American musical stage.

Religious programming: 7 a.m. until noon - Sundays - WRR airs religious services by churches of many de-nominations and faiths Sunday mornings. See Sunday listings for details.

Art Matters: 5:30 p.m. Sundays and 6:30 p.m. Thurs-days - Quin Mathews and Sharon Benge co-host this in-depth look at the arts in North Texas. This is the place to hear insightful interviews with some of the area’s arts luminaries as well as distinguished visitors.

Pipedreams: 10 p.m. Sundays - The king of instru-ments, the pipe organ, is the focus of this 90-minute program that spans the globe in its search for great music.

Dallas Summer Musicals Spotlight: 5 p.m. some Sun-days - An in depth look at the behind the scenes peo-ple involved in bringing the Dallas Summer Musicals to Fair Park.

Performance Today: 9 p.m. weekends - Live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe as well as interviews, news and features. Audiences, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Ber-lin and Paris.

Symphony Cast 7 p.m. Saturdays - A weekly classical music radio program hosted by Brian Newhouse and featuring full-length concerts by national and interna-tional symphony orchestras.

You spoke and we listened. By popular demand, From the Top returns to Saturdays at 9 a.m.

Featuring: Arts Update at 6:52 a.m.

Road Rage Remedy at 7:20 a.m. and March of the Day at 7:35 a.m.

Arts Update at 8:52 a.m.

FeaturingArts Update at 4:52 p.m.

Road Rage Remedy at 5:20 p.m. andThe Wine Experience at 6:20 p.m.

1 Friday

7:30p  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly7:30  Quilters; FUMC8  TBT, Cinderella; Winspear

2 Saturday

SPOTLIGHT DAY – OPENING CELEBRATION 10a-6:30p

Opening: Sightings: Alyson Shotz; NasherOpening: Tibet: The Land Closest to the Sky, Photographs by Marc Riboud; Crow Collection10a  *FREE Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet   at ceremonial entrance of DMA10  FREE admission, Target First   Saturday; Nasher10  FREE AdventureAsia, Family Day;   Crow Collection10  FREE [we]ekends at the DMA10:30  FREE Lecture, Mark Melson;   Meyerson11  FREE Mary Preston Organ Recital;   Meyerson12p  FREE Sneak Peek of The Mourners   exhibit; DMA2  DTC, Pay-What-You-Can Henry IV;   Wyly2  TBT, Cinderella; Winspear3  FREE curator-led tour of The   Mourners exhibit; DMA4  *FREE Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet   at ceremonial entrance of DMA

7:30p  Quilters; FUMC8  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly8  DSO, Holst: The Planets; Meyerson8  TBT, Cinderella; Winspear

3 Sunday

Opening: The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy; DMA10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection11  [we]ekends at the DMA2p  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly2  TBT, Cinderella; Winspear2:30  DSO, Holst: The Planets; Meyerson

5 Tuesday

10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection11  FREE admission, First Tuesday; DMA6:15p  FREE Meditation with Maria Kannon;   Crow Collection7:30  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly

6 Wednesday

10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection12:15p  Gallery Talk; DMA 7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS7:30  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly8  Samar Under the Stars; Samar by   Stephan Pyles

7 Thursday

Opening: AIA Dallas Design Awards Exhibition; Dallas Center for Architecture10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection5p  Thursday Night Live; DMA

7 Thursday

6p  Jazz in the Atrium; DMA5:30  FREE Patio Sessions; Sammons Park6  Crow Collection, Silk Road Lounge;   BTWHS7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS7:30  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly

8 Friday

10a  FREE Tibetan Monks Creating a Sand   Mandala; Crow Collection7:30p  Quilters; FUMC8  DSO, Liza Minelli; Meyerson8  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly

9 Saturday SPOTLIGHT DAY – DANCEAFRICA 

10a  DBDT, DanceAfrica; Annette Strauss   Square

11a  [we]ekends at the DMA2p  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly8  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly8  DSO, Liza Minnelli

10 Sunday

SPOTLIGHT DAY – DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT MEMBER & SUBSCRIBER DAYvisit www.TheDallasArtsDistrict.org/ArtInOctober for more info

11a  Member & Subscriber Day; DMA,   Nasher, Crow, Meyerson, Winspear

10a  Fiesta Latinoamericana;   Flora Street, between Pearl & Routh11  [we]ekends at the DMA12p  TDO 2010-2011 Dangerous Desires   Season Preview Day; Winspear2  DTC, Henry IV; Wyly2  DADA 25th Anniversary Film   Screening; DMA7  Dallas Bach Society, SUBTILITAS:   Music for the Dukes of Burgundy;   DMA8  DSO, Savion Glover at the Meyerson

12 Tuesday

6:15p  FREE Meditation with Maria Kannon;   Crow Collection7:30  Arts & Letters Live, Sara Gruen; DMA

13 Wednesday

12:15p  Gallery Talk; DMA6  Pecha Kucha, Vol. 4; Wyly7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS7:30  Architecture Film Series: Metropolis;   Dallas Center for Architecture8  Samar Under the Stars; Samar by   Stephan Pyles

14 Thursday

5p  Thursday Night Live; DMA5:30  FREE Patio Sessions; Sammons Park6  Jazz in the Atrium; DMA7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS7:30  State of the Arts with Kevin Moriarty   and Anne Pasternak; DMA8  DSO, Brahms: A German Requiem   (Jaap van Zweden); Meyerson

15 Friday SPOTLIGHT DAY – MUSEUM BLOCK PARTY all museums open til midnight

6p  Late Nights at the DMA 6  FREE Crow Collection After Dark 6  til Midnight at the Nasher8  FREE Crow Collection & DFS,   Godzilla; Flora Street 

7p  TDO, Amici di Opera,   Season Launch Party ; Winspear7  The First Breeze of Summer; BTWHS8  DSO, Brahms: A German Requiem   (Jaap van Zweden); Meyerson

16 Saturday

10a  *Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet at   ceremonial entrance of DMA11  [we]ekends at the DMA8p  DSO, Brahms: A German Requiem   (Jaap van Zweden); Meyerson

17 Sunday

11a  [we]ekends at the DMA3p  TDO, Opera Insights: Anna Bolena;   DMA8  DSO, Ravi Shankar; Meyerson

18 Monday

8p  TCC, A Night for Peace; Meyerson

19 Tuesday

6:15p  FREE Meditation with Maria Kannon;   Crow Collection7:00  Arts & Letters Live, Steven Johnson;   DMA8  DWS, Star Wars; Meyerson

20 Wednesday

12:15p  Gallery Talk; DMA8  Samar Under the Stars; Samar by   Stephan Pyles

21 Thursday

Opening: Black Current: Mexican Responses to Japanese Art, 17th - 19th Centuries; Crow Collection5p  Thursday Night Live; DMA6  Jazz in the Atrium; DMA5:30  FREE Patio Sessions; Sammons Park8  DSO, Magical Mendelssohn (Jaap   van Zweden); Meyerson

22 Friday

SPOTLIGHT DAY – DALLAS OPERA OPENING NIGHT

7:30p  TDO, Don Giovanni; Winspear 

8p  DSO, Magical Mendelssohn (Jaap   van Zweden); Meyerson

23 Saturday

11a  [we]ekends at the DMA1p  360: Artists, Curators & Critics with   Michael Corris; Nasher3  Fine Arts Chamber Players, Bancroft   Family Concert; DMA

23 Saturday

8p  DSO, Magical Mendelssohn (Jaap   van Zweden); Meyerson

24 Sunday

8a  Uptown Run; Starts and ends at   Sammons Park11  [we]ekends at the DMA2p  TDO, Don Giovanni; Winspear2:30  DSO, Magical Mendelssohn (Jaap   van Zweden); Meyerson

 

8  Kirk Franklin, Benefiting Central Dallas Ministries; Meyerson

26 Tuesday

5p  *Dallas Arts District Tour: Sacred   Spaces of the District; FUMC,   SPUMC, Cathedral6:15  FREE Meditation with Maria Kannon;   Crow Collection8  DSO, The Academy of St. Martin in   the Fields with Jonathan Biss;   Meyerson

27 Wednesday

12:15p  Gallery Talk; DMA7:30  TDO, Don Giovanni; Winspear8  Samar Under the Stars; Samar by   Stephan Pyles

28 Thursday

5p  Thursday Night Live; DMA6  Jazz in the Atrium; DMA5:30  FREE Patio Sessions; Sammons Park7:30  Brettell Lecture: Rodin, His Collectors,   and The Gates of Hell, DMA

29 Friday

7:30p  TDO, Anna Bolena; Winspear8  DSO, Psycho; Meyerson

30 Saturday

11a  [we]ekends at the DMA3p  Undermain Theater Group, Play   Reading: The Golem; DMA7:30  TDO, Don Giovanni; Winspear8  DSO, Psycho; Meyerson

31 Sunday  

SPOTLIGHT DAY – CLOSING CELEBRATION 11a-5p

11a  FREE admission, Family Celebration;   DMA11  FREE admission; Nasher11  FREE admission; Crow Collection11  FREE Fall Block Party; One Arts Plaza11:30  *FREE Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet   at ceremonial entrance of DMA1:30  FREE Pre-Concert Activities;   Meyerson2p  TDO, Anna Bolena; Winspear2:30  DSO, Symphonic Spook-Tacular;   Meyerson3  DBDT African Masks Performance;   DMA 4  *FREE Dallas Arts District Tour; Meet   at ceremonial entrance of DMA

calendar of events

25 Monday

CELEBRATING THE DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT

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Oct. 2 NorthPark Celebrates ARTsPARK and The Dallas Arts District’s celebrates its first anniversary with Art in October

Oct. 4-8 The Classic Cafe broadcasts Live from One Arts Plaza 11 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Oct. 9 Bachendorf’s Jewelry welcomes The Dallas Bach Society and WRR for a live broadcast from 1-3 p.m.

Oct. 16 WRR joins the Dallas International Film Festival for the first public event at Annette Strauss Artist Square in the AT&T Performing Arts Center for a screening of Casablanca

Oct. 17 WRR broadcasts live from the Kimbell Art Museum from 1-3 p.m.

Nov. 1-5 The Classic Cafe broadcasts Live from One Arts Plaza 11 a.m.- 1 p.m.

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Upcoming EventsUpcoming Events

It’s a great month for Beethoven fans! • Monday, Oct. 4, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s broadcasts begin. Beethoven’s

3rd and 5th Symphonies will be played under the baton of the man who this genera-tion is looking to as a leading Beethoven interpreter, Jaap van Zweden.

• Wednesday night, Oct. 6, Cliburn Competition finalist and audience darling Di Wu performs Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in a broadcast concert. Miguel harth-Bedoya will conduct Peter Boyer’s Celebration Overture and a suite of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet music as well.

• Then the evening of Oct. 11, it’s back to the Meyerson for Lang Lang’s one-night only concert with the DSO. he’ll play Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto.

Classic Café at One Arts Plaza for Oct. 4-8 will present some wonderful musical guests playing live on the air. Monday, Oct. 4, Fort Worth Symphony Concertmaster Michael Shih will be visiting during the noon hour. he’s celebrating the 300th birthday of the 1710 Davis Stradi-varius violin. On Friday the 8th, piano maestro Joseph Banowetz will perform on the Steinway hall One Arts Piano.

There are several birthdays to note in October. Yo Yo Ma turns 55 on Oct. 7. On the 9th, Carnival of the Animals composer Camille Saint-Saens is 175. October 26, early keyboard virtuoso Domenico Scarlatti is 325. And with a bittersweet tear for one of music’s great souls, we remember Luciano Pavarotti’s 75th birthday Oct. 12.