Itzhak Perlman

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Night & Day

November 5 - 11, 1998

String Along

Maudlin Music hardly matches the Craven image

Itzhak Perlman

The award-winning violinist performs works by Bach, Strauss and Schumann

Home Again

Ten years brings the Texas justice system to its senses. Roy Criner's free.

Jet-Propelled

Zhang Yimou makes a soaring, mythic Hero out of Jet Li

Bonding with the Community

A Sixth Ward lesson in adapting to a changing environment

Putting on Airs

Modern dance master Paul Taylor brings a program of classics old and new to Jones Hall

Disney Lightens Up

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

Wunderkind

Flutist Christina Jennings poised to shine

Night & Day

June 17 - 23, 1999

Itzhak Perlman

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto gets a workout by one of classical music's best

Program Notes: Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809-1847​Here at Rocks Off, we enjoy album covers with turds on them and making fun of R. Kelly as much as the next guy. And just wait until Chris Brown gets here next weekend. But there's a lot more to music than that. In a possibly fruitless effort to c ... More >>

The Rolling Stones On Ed Sullivan Collected In New DVD Package

"Show me your teeth!": Jagger On Ed Sullivan​The Rolling Stones are literally our favorite band of all-time. Yeah, the title of this here music blog should have already given that away, but watching a decade or so of vital Stones history fly by over six episodes on the new The Ed Sullivan Show ... More >>