Scott Cantrell
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Classical music critic for @DallasNews, also writing occasionally about art and architecture.
Dallas, TX
Joined March 2013
Review: Harth-Bedoya leads FW Symphony in spiffy Gershwin, Beethoven https://t.co/xKzp0MDfqU For more great content like this subscribe to the Dallas News app here:
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The orchestra’s former music director subbed in for ailing guest conductor Jane Glover
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Review: Dallas Symphony concert again included a surprise
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The orchestra also performed Alfredo Casella’s Second Symphony and Samuel Barber’s 1939 Violin Concerto.
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Review: Dallas Symphony gives a rare performance of a Kurt Weill symphony
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The Brahms Double Concerto had expert soloists, but the orchestra was often too loud.
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Houston Symphony’s glorious ‘Tristan’ is latest in Wagner-in-concert trend
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Houston Symphony’s glorious ‘Tristan’ is latest in Wagner-in-concert trend
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Review: Novel ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ from the Dallas Symphony https://t.co/BoldvyEPAe For more great content like this subscribe to the Dallas News app here:
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Guest conductor Leonidas Kavakos also led works by Ravel and Prokofiev.
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Review: Thwarted love, political unrest in 16th century Spain
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Verdi’s ‘Don Carlo’ is a dramatic season closer for the Dallas Opera.
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Dallas Symphony announces 2026-27 season. Here are the highlights
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2026-27 season will include concert performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, with Ildebrando D’Arcangelo in the title role, and...
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Dallas Opera announces 2026-27 season. Here’s what to expect
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Productions include ‘The Elixir of Love,’ ‘Cunning Little Vixen,’ ‘Turandot’ and ‘Lohengrin.’
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Review: Super-size video distractions at the Fort Worth Symphony gala
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Violinist Gil Shaham and the orchestra played beautifully, but it was hard to pay attention to the music.
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Review: Quirky beauties in the Nasher’s Rauschenberg sculpture show https://t.co/UUXZ62iLCQ For more great content like this subscribe to the Dallas News app here:
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If there’s one thing 20th-century art taught us, it’s this: Art is anything we decide to call art. Anything. It was a credo for Robert Rauschenberg, one of...
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Review: Aptly scaled Beethoven, Schubert from Dallas Chamber Symphony
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The Tuesday concert also included ‘Canto’ by American composer Adam Schoenberg.
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Cantrell: Canceling of San Antonio Philharmonic’s season is a sad loss for Central Texas
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The state’s second largest city has once again lost a symphony orchestra.
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Dallas Symphony frames a new violin concerto with Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra had a large and enthusiastic audience for its Thursday night concert at the Meyerson Symphony Center. But two classics of...
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Dallas Opera general director Ian Derrer to leave this summer
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Ian Derrer, general director and CEO of the Dallas Opera for the last eight years, will leave Dallas this summer to head the Canadian Opera Company.
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Review: Dallas Opera presents Rachel Portman’s ‘The Little Prince’
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On Friday night, the Dallas Opera presented a family-friendly opera that has been widely performed since its 2003 Houston Grand Opera premiere. The Little...
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Review: Applause kept interrupting Holst’s ‘The Planets’ in Dallas Symphony concert
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It was good to see a full and enthusiastic audience for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Thursday night concert. But in Gustav Holst’s The Planets applause...
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Fort Worth’s Cliburn to launch conductor contest — in Houston https://t.co/4fXfD55HVB For more great content like this subscribe to the Dallas News app here:
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The Cliburn is teaming up with Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the Houston Symphony for a major new competition.
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Review: A powerful Bruckner Ninth Symphony from Dallas Symphony, Fabio Luisi
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The Meyerson Symphony Center’s acoustics dramatically enhanced the effect.
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Review: The Fort Worth Symphony begins a new year with French music
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Music director Robert Spano conducted music of Berlioz, Debussy, Ravel and the immigrant Chopin.
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Review: A vivid semi-staged ‘Madama Butterfly’ from the Dallas Symphony
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But a mostly compelling cast was sometimes overpowered by the orchestra.
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