@DMNSCantrell

Classical music critic for @DallasNews, also writing occasionally about art and architecture.

 Dallas, TX
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Joined March 2013
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Review: With Fabio Luisi back on the podium, an invigorating Dallas Symphony concert dallasnews.com/arts-entertai… via @dallasnews

Review: With Fabio Luisi back on the podium, an invigorating DSO concert

The DSO’s Daniel Hawkins was the splendid soloist in Strauss’ Second Horn Concerto. 

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Review: A lively, colorful ‘Elixir of Love’ opens Dallas Opera season dallasnews.com/arts-entertai… via @dallasnews

Review: A lively, colorful ‘Elixir of Love’ opens Dallas Opera season

Review: Dallas Opera opens its 2026-2027 season with a lively, colorful 'Elixir of Love,' Donizetti's comic opera. Soprano Soraya Mafi was a dazzling Adina.

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A new general director, a new season for the Dallas Opera

Dallas Opera starts 2026-27 season with new general director David Lomelí. The season includes operas by Donizetti, Janáček, Puccini and Wagner.

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Review: Escher Quartet gives aggressive start to chamber music season

The ensemble played Mozart, Dvořák and Prokofiev with precision but sometimes too much intensity

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Review: The Cliburn taps FWSO for concert of American music dallasnews.com/arts-entertai… via @dallasnews

Review: The Cliburn taps FWSO for concert of American music

The program featured violin, cello and piano soloists and works by Gershwin, Copland, Barber and Mason Bates.

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Review: Splendid singing from Choir of Trinity College Cambridge dallasnews.com/arts-entertai… via @dallasnews

Review: Splendid singing in Dallas from Choir of Trinity College Cambridge

The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge presented a concert Sunday evening at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas.

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Review: Cliburn winner returns in Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's season opener dallasnews.com/arts-entertai… via @dallasnews

Review: Cliburn winner returns in Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's season opener

Cliburn competition winner Aristo Sham played Mozart concerto with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in 2026-27 season opener with Robert Spano.

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Review: Santa Fe Opera is again a favorite of the D-FW opera crowd

As usual, this summer’s Santa Fe Opera festival presents five operas. A witty 'Magic Flute' was this year’s highlight.

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Santa Fe Opera presents new opera about pioneering transgender artist

Santa Fe Opera is giving the first American performances of an opera about a transgender artist, with a transgender singer in the title role. 

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Dallas Opera’s Ian Derrer: An exit interview

After eight years here, he’s leaving to head the Canadian Opera Company.

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Fort Worth music festival changes venue dallasnews.com/arts-entertai… via @dallasnews

Fort Worth music festival changes venue

The D-FW classical music scene really thins out in summer months, but one of the enduring attractions is the Mimir Chamber Music Festival in Fort Worth. 

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Review: Three pianists rewarded in Dallas Chamber Symphony competition

Three finalists in Dallas Chamber Symphony's Dallas International Piano Competition were presented their prizes after performances on June 23, 2026.

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Review: A compelling recital in Fort Worth by a Cliburn silver medalist

2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition silver medalist Vitaly Starikov returned to Fort Worth recently for a recital at Texas Christian University.

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3 Cliburn medalists will be featured at PianoTexas festival

TCU event with public performances brings together students, experienced pianists for classes, lessons

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Review: DSO performs music from Prague and Hollywood, via Vienna

The Korngold Violin Concerto had a brilliant soloist in María Dueñas

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A week after the Dallas Symphony’s Mahler Eighth, a gripping Ninth in Houston

Days after a hair-raising Mahler Eighth Symphony from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony performed a white-hot Ninth. 

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Review: Fort Worth Symphony plays Italian-inspired works by Berlioz and Sibelius

The orchestra’s principal violist DJ Cheek was soloist in the Berlioz ‘Harold in Italy.’

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CD Review: The Dallas Symphony’s glorious ‘Ring of the Nibelung’

While Fabio Luisi works wonders with orchestral timbres and textures, the singers are a mixed bag.

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Dallas Chamber Symphony sublime in Debussy, less so in Brahms and Chausson

Dallas Chamber Symphony performed Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Ernest Chausson’s Poème and Brahms' Fourth Symphony.

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