“The Flaming Lips will headline the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Soluna International Music & Arts Festival this April, performing a rare orchestral version of their landmark album The Soft Bulletin,” writes Natalie Gempel in Monday’s (1/27) D Magazine (Dallas). “The sixth annual festival … which includes both classical concerts and contemporary collaborations, is taking place in the Dallas Arts District and across the city from April 3-21…. The 2020 festival kicks off with Fabio Luisi conducting The Book with Seven Seals, a rarely heard [1937] oratorio [by Franz Schmidt], April 3-5. The first weekend will also include Rising Excellence, a show of new choreography by the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Pulcinella/La Voix Humaine performed by the Dallas Opera in collaboration with the DBDT, and the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun’s Windows to Yushu.… Other highlights of the festival include Sō Percussion presenting the Texas premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Forbidden Love and performing Jason Treuting’s Amid the Noise with students from the DSO Young Strings Program. Dallas groups Verdigris Ensemble and Voices of Change have collaborated to reimagine Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt … with director and choreographer Joshua L. Peugh.”
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