Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky

Happy Birthday Igor Stravinsky

Dutch Treat

Click Art

Three photographers transcend the cult of personality with their revealing celebrity portraits

This Bird Has Flown

Houston Ballet's pricey new Firebird gets lost in time

Out In Sight

Gender bias and the FBI's eyes can't keep Janis Ian down

Kitsch of Death

HGO's world premiere The Dracula Diary is deadly... dull

Hard Times at the Ballet

When the dancers of the Houston Ballet learned their artistic director, Ben Stevenson, had been forced into a medical leave, they had to wonder: were there problems ahead?

Press Picks

When the dancers of the Houston Ballet learned their artistic director, Ben Stevenson, had been forced into a medical leave, they had to wonder: were there problems ahead?

Something Different

The Houston Ballet ventures deep into Balanchine territory

Press Picks

The Houston Ballet ventures deep into Balanchine territory

The Reich Stuff

A new boxed set gives minimalist Steve Reich maximum exposure

Strange Rites

Infernal Bridegroom tries to prove it's as original as its reputation

Night & Day

June 4- 10, 1998

Made in the USA

Shaham shines in a salute to American Composers

Night & Day

October 8 - 14, 1998

Night & Day

November 12 - 18, 1998

Gergiev the Great

Kirov kicks in masterfully for a tardy maestro

Night & Day

April 22-28, 1999

Soul Brother No. 1

Top 10 reasons why Ray Charles is a genius

Southern Culture on the Skids

Top 10 reasons why Ray Charles is a genius

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal

Web exclusive

Opposites Attract in Chris & Don

Portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one)

"The Sounds I See: Photographs of Musicians"

This MFAH exhibit features live shots of popular music's greatest contributors

The 5 Browns

The SPA hosts a homecoming for the Juilliard quintet

Super Mario Symphony

The SPA hosts a homecoming for the Juilliard quintet

Been a Long Time

But the Houston Symphony Wants to "Rock and Roll"

Houston Ballet Premieres

Three Houston Ballet premieres make welcome additions to the repertory

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Black Action Figure

Classically trained Stefon Harris fights for love and freedom inside his jazz grooves

T-Rex in Mouse Ears

The Mesozoic Era undergoes the Disney treatment in Dinosaur

You Go Gaelic, Girl

The Mesozoic Era undergoes the Disney treatment in Dinosaur

Disney Lightens Up

Fantasia/2000 strikes a better balance between serious and comic elements

Viva Japanic!

Local Music News

Write Soon and Tell All

Pauline Oliveros moved to San Francisco. She played avant-garde accordion. She came out as a lesbian. She kept in touch with her mom.

Defending the Polka

Pauline Oliveros moved to San Francisco. She played avant-garde accordion. She came out as a lesbian. She kept in touch with her mom.

Scriabin and Kandinksy: Hearing Color, Seeing Sound

Pianist Jade Simmons blends music tones and color tones

Coco Puff

Chanel hagiography is so last season.

1909-2009: The Great Collaborators of the Ballets Russes

The Dominic Walsh Dance Theater re-creates century-old classics

I Gave Her a Ring...: Musical Minutiae About Fingers and Birds

​Although we recently discovered how to access the primitive version of Facebook on our non-iPhone (so watch out), Rocks Off generally lives in an Internet-free bubble outside the office. And happily so, so it took until Monday's late local news for us to see - and subsequently laugh our fool head ... More >>

Rite of Spring and Rach 3

Get ready for riotous Rachmaninoff music

Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring: The Buzzfest Of Its Day

​This weekend, the Houston Symphony performs Igor Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring, which, before it was featured alongside a bunch of dying dinosaurs in Walt Disney's Fantasia, was probably most famous for sparking a full-blown riot upon its premiere in Paris in May 1913. Seriously - check out ... More >>

Symphony, Soloist "Shine" On Rach 3, Rite Of Spring

​While watching to the Houston Symphony's performance of "The Rite of Spring" Friday night, Aftermath's mind kept coming back to one image - the story from late last year of the wild white-tail fawn that accidentally found its way into the lion enclosure at the National Zoo. Warning: Some peop ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Houston Ballet:: Three for the Ages

This HB program features some of the best dance of the last 75 years

Abstract Art

With Houston Ballet's gorgeous Jewels, no plot is no problem.

Five Songs That Huck Finn Guy Should Censor Next

gutenberg.org​As many of you probably already know, Alabama publisher NewSouth Inc. plans to release censored versions of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, replacing the words "nigger" and "Injun" with "slave" and "Indian," respectively. That's ... More >>

Ask A (Producer For) Rapper(s)

Chris Rockaway​The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email introd ... More >>

No More Requests For Night Owl Classical Lovers: KUHF (And KUHA) Will Offer Canned Music Only In Overnights

No more nightflys on KUHF​Locally-hosted overnight shows on KUHF will soon be a thing of the past, and don't go looking for them KUHA, the phoenix rising from KTRU's ashes, either, confirms Richard Bonnin, executive director of media relations at UH's Office of University Communication. Bonn ... More >>

Top 5 Songs About Whiskey

Photo via peaceuvmine.com​Whether it's rye or bourbon, straight or blended, Irish, Scotch or Canadian, rock, country or classical, whiskey and warblers go way back. Even Stravinsky was quoted as saying "My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey. ... More >>