Cool Fun in Summer’s Dog Days
Although it's another sizzling August in Texas, only party-pooping pooches stay on the porch during the dog days of summer. We've rounded up some cool fun in the Roundtopolis™.
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Festival Hill
Experience the Power of Women and Music at Festival Hill
Festival Hill, home to a nationally known concert hall and a world-renowned music institute, is celebrating women in the arts on June 23, 2018, with three concerts featuring the music of Joan Tower, America's preeminent female composer.
A New Perspective on Home
Taylor Jacob, Carmine’s professional barrel racer, told me that home looks different when you see it in the rear view mirror. My Aggie daughter would add that home looks different after an airplane ride halfway around the world and back.…
Roundtopolis: Old Places, New Eyes
In 1957, when she was a fourth grader at David Crockett Elementary, Cathye Moon got hooked on photography when she got a Brownie Hawkeye box camera—and an almost constant companion. Today, she rarely leaves home without a camera in tow.…
Round Top Festival Institute: Master Carpenter Larry Birkelbach
Once upon a time in the 1970s, James Dick, a world-class pianist, asked, “Why dream the ordinary?” He envisioned an international center for music and learning nestled in the hills outside the tiny Texas town of Round Top. His path…
Round Top Festival Institute: The Magnificence
Once upon a time in the 1970s, James Dick, a world-class pianist, asked, “Why dream the ordinary?” He envisioned an international center for music and learning nestled in the hills outside the tiny Texas town of Round Top. His path…
Round Top Festival Institute: The Musician James Dick
Once upon a time in the 1970s, James Dick, a world-class pianist, asked, “Why dream the ordinary?” He envisioned an international center for music and learning nestled in the hills outside the tiny Texas town of Round Top. His path…
Round Top Festival Institute: No Ordinary Dream
Internationally acclaimed concert pianist James Dick asks: Why dream the ordinary?
Master carpenter Larry Birkelbach maintains: The impossible just takes longer.
Two men. Four hands. One goal: to build an inimitable institution that’s…
Pandora de Balthazar in Round Top
Restful Rejuvenation in Round Top
There aren’t any “wrongs” when it comes to making your own home beautiful, but it’s terribly wrong, in my opinion, to neglect the comfort and rejuvenation the body needs.
Pandora de Balthazár
Pandora…
Shooting the Breeze with James Dick
Shooting the Breeze
by Katie Dickie Stavinoha
Lorie and I began our Shooting the Breeze session with James Dick on the stage of Festival Hill’s Concert Hall, which has been called the “most accoustically perfect performance hall in…