George Gershwin

One Kiss: The Music of Sigmund Romberg

One Year After Woman Gets Masters In The Beatles, We Hunt Down Most Bizarre College Music Courses

A year ago today, Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy of Ontario became the first person in the world to earn a master's degree in The Beatles. I'm not quite sure what she's doing now, but I do know she could probably kick anyone's ass in Beatles trivia. This little anniversary of her graduation got me think ... More >>

The United States Of Women In Music

​Rocks Off is no He-Man Woman Hater's Club. We like women quite a bit, actually, especially those women brave enough to wade through the rivers of bullshit in the male-dominated music business. If you'll page back a few weeks, you'll remember the discussion of our favorite female artists from ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Last 5 Years, Paradise Hotel, Stairway to Paradise: The Young George Gershwin

​Rocks Off is no He-Man Woman Hater's Club. We like women quite a bit, actually, especially those women brave enough to wade through the rivers of bullshit in the male-dominated music business. If you'll page back a few weeks, you'll remember the discussion of our favorite female artists from ... More >>

Not Dead

Death Row opera shines in stunning HGO production.

20 Musician Biopics Currently In Development Hell

Happy birthday, Janis.​News came down last week that Sacha Baron Cohen will be stepping into the rhinestones and glitter as Queen icon Freddie Mercury. It's been a long time coming for Cohen, the Borat and Bruno star who is slowly becoming his generation's Peter Sellers and has been rumored to ... More >>

Friday Night: Sting At The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Photos by Groovehouse​Sting with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion June 25, 2010 "If you love somebody," Sting once sang, "set them free." Friday night at the Woodlands, he set a good two dozen of his songs free from their original arrangements, and set ... More >>

"Summertime" From Beyond The Grave

​Today marks the 44th anniversary of Janis Joplin's first gig with Big Brother and the Holding Company. One of rock's most staggering vocalists, Joplin became another star who left us too soon on October 4, 1970, when she overdosed on heroin while recording Pearl. George Gershwin's "Summertime" wa ... More >>

A Very White Guy Explains Why "Granite State of Mind" Is Better Than Jay-Z's Original

To: Jay-ZFrom A Very White PersonRe: Why "Granite State of Mind" is better than your originalSir:First, I'm sure you're wondering how I, a very pale Irish-American, might be quailifed to critique so-called "rap" music. My answer is simply that, as a white person who reads the Internet, I feel qualif ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

Oh no you didn't, Shameless Chef.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we've finally settled our lawsuit against Beck for heeding his advice to "get crazy with the Cheez Whiz." Ah, those were crazier, dumber times. We started the week off well enough with the fi ... More >>

Straight, No Chaser

The most underground music in Houston right now isn't rap or indie rock...it's jazz.

Rhapsody in Blue

The Houston Symphony welcomes guest pianist Kirill Gerstein as it tackles an American classic

Rhapsody in Blue

The Houston Symphony welcomes guest pianist Kirill Gerstein as it tackles an American classic

Herb Keyser: Geniuses of American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists

Get the inside dish on Broadway’s masters

Burnin' for You

Get the inside dish on Broadway’s masters

Aftermath: Brave Combo at Discovery Green

Photos by Allen Hill It would be interesting to find out how many weddings have taken place at Discovery Green since it opened last year, but it's hard to imagine that any of them could have been any livelier than Brave Combo's free concert there Thursday evening. In its second season, DG's free con ... More >>

Think Buckcherry Has Mellowed? Crazy Bitch...

All Lit Up Again

It's All Good at Gershwin Glam

Three-Course Feast from the Houston Ballet

Gershwin Glam

The Houston Ballet pays homage to Ira’s little brother

Four Corners Music from Asia, Europe, North and South America

Mukuru raises awareness by bringing the ends of the earth to Houston

Masterpiece Theater

Rich, resonant Sweeney Todd is a modern American opera

You Can't Stop History

The Colored Museum should be listed in everyone's guidebook

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Mindless Mayhem

Pardon us, but Pardon My English should've stayed in retirement

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Pardon us, but Pardon My English should've stayed in retirement

Strings Attached

Operatic popster Rufus Wainwright exits "gay hell" and enters his most fertile period

Live Six Show

Local choreographers shimmy on stage

The Dark Side of the Moon

Main Street Theater scrubs the world of showbiz till it's clean and boring

The Axman Cometh

Main Street Theater scrubs the world of showbiz till it's clean and boring

Swing in Time

OrchestraX salutes the 1920s and the music of Gershwin and Ellington

He's Ba-ack

Burt Bacharach's swanky pop stylings return to hipness

Herbie Hancock Times Six

Burt Bacharach's swanky pop stylings return to hipness

Made in the USA

Shaham shines in a salute to American Composers

Generation Exceptional

Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

Static

Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

Sound Check

Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

Press Picks

Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

Press Picks

Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

Everything Festival

Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

Press Picks

Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

Fine Times On Catfish Row

HGO revives, and reinvents, a pleasing Porgy and Bess

Press Picks

HGO revives, and reinvents, a pleasing Porgy and Bess