Category: Music

The UT Dallas Chamber Singers, Community Chorale and Wind Ensemble will present the 36th annual Holiday Sing performance this Saturday at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre. The free concert, UT Dallas’ oldest continuous cultural tradition, is this year titled, A Mostly Baroque Christmas. “It is a joy to see the community come together every year to celebrate […]

Frankenstein the Musical is in a revival production at Dallas’ historic Pocket Sandwich Theater. The show’s composer is UT Dallas music faculty member Mary Medrick, who originally wrote the score in 1984, a collaboration with the theater’s founder and the play’s author Rodney Dobbs. A rather spooky musical comedy, the show begins with 19-year-old Mary […]

Eleven students from the School of Arts and Humanities will receive a total of $15,750, thanks to the Jonelle and Bryce Jordan Scholarship Fund. The fund’s annual awards support undergraduate students in music, theater, dance, creative writing, visual arts, and arts and technology. The 2012-2013 recipients will each receive up to $2,500. This year’s winners […]

Prizes Awarded to Students for Best Photography, Painting and Multimedia Works May 11, 2012 The Student Art Spring Festival comes to a close this weekend with readings from creative writing students and the year’s final choral concert. The festival kicked off last week with the student visual art show, which featured more than 40 works from students […]

It’s spring and hence time for students to show off their creative work from more than 40 School of Arts and Humanities courses. The Student Arts Spring Festival gives audiences the opportunity to take in classical music, jazz, theater, dance, guitar, piano and vocal performances, as well as an art exhibition and reception. The festival, which involves […]

Hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz will come to campus Friday night when acclaimed trombonist Wycliffe Gordon performs. Gordon will play at 8 p.m., April 27, in the Alexander Clark Center.  The band will include UT Dallas faculty member Kelly Durbin on piano, James Gilyard on bass and Steve Barnes on drums. Gordon is a modern master of the plunger […]

The School of Arts and Humanities is holding its 11th Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival on March 2-3. The competition will showcase the playing of internationally known classical guitarists and award $8,000 in cash prizes to competition winners. Guest artists this year include Jeff Cogan and Duo Melis. Jeff Cogan will present “Buying a World […]

The opening of Affinities, a new exhibit of images from the Jerry and Marilyn Comer Photography Collection, will kick off a varied week of arts events at UT Dallas. The exhibit’s opening reception is Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 2 p.m. in the University Theatre Gallery. The Comer Collection captures scenes of American life from the middle to […]

Starting this week, more than 600 UT Dallas students from more than 40 courses will be sharing their art with the public as part of  The Student Art Fall Festival. The festival, which stretches across two weeks, invites audiences to roam from one building to another, taking in classical, jazz, dance, guitar, piano and vocal performances, […]

The UT Dallas Chamber Singers and students from the Musical Theatre Workshop will take a trip to Broadway this week with a family-friendly concert, Best of Broadway IV. The performance will feature songs and choruses from the shows Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie Get Your Gun, State Fair, A Little Night Music and Legally Blonde. Kathryn Evans, head of vocal and […]