WRR 101.1 Focus on the Arts

“It’s a lot harder than it looks,” says Lawrence Loh, who will conduct the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in their season opener, "Amadeus in Concert." “The musicians will have to play in a way (that) they can’t let go, and I can’t let go. I have to keep the music going at the exact tempo and pace as the original, and I think that’s exciting and also difficult.” In this feature, Loh joins WRR’s Amy Bis...

"As a person who gets the chance to go to the places like Whitmore, Carnegie, and take the music of Mozart, Strauss, Schumann, and Schubert, it would also be a good thing if I could take the music of young African American composers who had voices, who had something to say,” says American tenor Lawrence Brownlee, talking about the genesis of "Rising," his new album featuring poetry of the Harlem R...

"I feel like it (National Youth Orchestra) brings a new energy with the youth, and so I think that’s why the reason it’s so important, and with youth orchestras across America," says clarinetist Christopher Dechant, a native of Lucas Texas. Dechant is one of five DFW teens in the coast-to-coast tour with the NYO, which includes a stop at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. He chatted with WRR'...