Hundreds of horn players are expected to gather at the University of North Texas on Saturday in the hopes of setting a Guinness World Record for having the largest horn ensemble perform at one time in one place.
The Lone Star Wind Orchestra Youth Winds performs in concert 2:30 p.m. today at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, 2351 Performance Drive.
Time is short for presenters to submit proposals to the Greater Denton Arts Council for its inaugural conference, “Ekphrasis: A Collaboration Among the Arts.”
Professional chamber choir the Texas Voices ends its ninth season with “Caledonian Air: Folk Songs of the British Isles” at 6:30 p.m. May 20 at Mesquite Arts Center, 1527 N. Galloway Ave. in Mesquite.
Two local high school theater productions won top honors in different categories in the High School Musical Theatre Awards, hosted by Dallas Summer Musicals
How do you comfort yourself when you find yourself 5,000 miles from home, without a job, in a country where you don’t know anyone and can’t speak the language? Longtime Denton resident Ellise Pierce moved five and a half years ago from Texas to Paris, France, for the best of reasons: romance.
Three brothers have mommy issues in the Blu-ray debut of this deliciously perverse 2010 slasher remake loosely based on the 1980 original of the same name.
The University of North Texas Collegium Singers — a group of student vocalists specially trained in singing music of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries — have been invited to perform at Early Music America’s Young Performers Festival, part of the Berkeley Festival in California in June.
Tex-Mex recipes? Fine. Tex-Mex-Southern? Maybe. But Tex-Mex-Southern-homestyle and French? Incredible as it sounds, former Denton resident Ellise Pierce has managed to blend the four cuisines into a delightful and highly entertaining cookbook.
There’s a new kid on the performing arts block in Denton, and artistic director and conductor Jason Lim said he means to make it a success. Odysseus Chamber Orchestra, a nonprofit professional orchestra, performs its inaugural concert today in Krum. Works by Wagner, Mozart, Vivaldi and Copland are on the program.
The chamber orchestra has already joined Denton schools to give promising students — take Denton High School senior and violinist Nigel Deane and Guyer High School senior and bassist Beckah Maxwell, for instance — a chance to play with the pros.
Michelle Kuzov expects to teach and learn a lot in the six-week “Delicious Living” class she is teaching next month at the Denton Senior Center. The students in her first two classes shared stories, recipes and meals, and they made the classes social occasions, Kuzov said.
Denton native Liam McCurry released his latest e-book thriller, Into the Flames, through Digi-Tall Media in Plano.
Locals in Denton remembered Tom “Pops” Carter as a man who dressed to the nines, flirted without apology and sang for the rafters. When news of the Denton blues legend’s death broke late Sunday, local Facebook pages thanked the 92-year-old musician for years of soulful songs and bid him to “rest in peace.”
Denton Record-Chronicle's special section on the 2012 Denton Arts & Jazz Festival
There’s nothing quite like the hometown flavor of Denton, Texas. Every year, residents select their favorites among the many small businesses and chains alike, choosing those that provide top quality customer service. If you’re looking for the best homestyle cooking, the best cleaning service, the best place to get your vehicle’s oil changed or even the best senior care facility, this list is for you.
Locals who missed soprano Ava Pine in the title role of Handel’s Theodora in Denton can see her this week at Cowboy Stadium.
Steve Gryb can’t get enough of the drums. He plays them professionally. He taught percussion on the university level for years. And yet nothing comes close to the magic of what he calls “the three Ps” when he does his thing – “edutainment” -- at music festivals around the country and the globe.
In one of the most provocative films from last year, an uninhibited Michael Fassbender plays a New York man with a debilitating sexual addiction.
Denton’s creative communities have spent the last few years obsessed by the notion of “cross-pollination.” Indie musicians have wondered what might happen if dancers rocked with them a while. Dancers have challenged one another to choreograph dances to local music.
This week, we begin in Conroe: "Into the Abyss" (***1/2) Rated PG-13, 107 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
Sun to Moon Gallery celebrates the changing of the seasons with “Spring,” a group exhibition of images by 10 photographers.
Artist Nick Cave can talk at length about the materials required to make his latest project happen. He can dissect the project with academic precision and probably put it in the context of American art, from the time of founding father portraiture to Andy Warhol.
The Greater Denton Arts Council continues its study of the arts and their relationship to local commerce, education and community identity with a regional conference in October.
This week, we start during World War I: “War Horse” (**1/2) Rated PG-13, 146 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
Dorothy Minter has never been scared of ghosts. Even as a child, when her mother saw a ghost in the ceiling of their country house, Minter thought her mother’s terror was a little on the silly side. Minter’s father died at the age of 54. She and her mother slept in a large bedroom with two beds, and after her husband died, Minter’s mother began waking up in the night and seeing an apparition looking down at her.
This week, we begin in Zurich: "A Dangerous Method" (***) Rated R, 99 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
Denton painter Pam Burnley-Schol was recently invited to include her artwork in an international exhibition called “Gold” at the Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum in Vienna, Austria, this month. Burnley-Schol was invited because the painter uses 24-karat gold leaf paint in her recent still life pieces. She was one of 140 contemporary artists invited to join the group show.
This week we greet the arrival of several of last year’s favorites: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (****) Rated R, 160 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
“Collage 2012: Denton Dance Festival” is a bit of a throwback this year. Lisa Racina-Torre said it’s not because the dance is stale — far from it — but because the festival brings five local dance companies together for a single performance.
The Jesus and Mary Chain performs a special free concert Wednesday night at the North Texas State Fairgrounds. The band had been slated to headline last weekend’s 35 Denton festival but was detained in London for visa issues the band said was beyond its control.
The soggy but dogged attendees of 35 Denton music festival delighted in the return of the Texas sun on Sunday. “God, this is gorgeous,” said Ken Leathers, a volunteer with the 35 Denton operations, while strolling down Hickory Street. People gathered in groups slathering sunscreen on each other’s shoulders, putting on sunglasses and laughing. One woman was blowing bubbles near the food trucks.
Four days a year, downtown Denton’s bars and streets are filled with great music — from rock to rap to folk and everything in between — as part of 35 Denton. This year was no different.
This week, we begin in Hawaii: "The Descendants" (****) Rated R, 115 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
Effectively using social media means being authentic, playing to your strengths and thinking before you post, experts said Thursday during a panel discussion opening the 35 Denton music festival.
It’s been years since Mark Ward has visited North Texas, but the Denton native returned to the area this week as one of the main performers for Cirque du Soleil.
The 27th annual Texas Storytelling Festival continues through Sunday at the Denton Civic Center. It is sponsored by the Tejas Storytelling Association. Tickets for the entire festival cost $95 for association members and $130 for nonmembers. Tickets to individual concerts cost $10. Day passes today are $40. For more information, visit www.tejasstorytelling.com/festival.
“I need an ambulance. My wife has a gunshot,” the man on the 911 call told the dispatcher.
