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The Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin announced that composition professor and director of the university’s New Music Ensemble, Dan Welcher, has received the music award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eighteen recipients are honored with the award each year in music. The winners are selected by…

This summer, the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents two exhibitions that examine methods and motivations for building art collections.

Event: The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Texas State University-San Marcos, is offering the inaugural Texas Musical Theatre Workshop, a three-week, pre-professional summer intensive for high school stude

“Trash Dance,” a film about the dignity of work by Associate Professor Andrew Garrison, premieres at South by Southwest Saturday, March 10.

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of novelist and short-story writer Tom Coraghessan “T.C.” Boyle, author of such acclaimed works as “The Tortilla Curtain” (1995) and “World’s End” (1987). Spanning more than 30 years from the 1970s through the present,…

Event: The Starling Distinguished Violinist Series at the Butler School of Music presents British violinist Chloë Hanslip. She will be joined by pianist Danny Driver for a program of Beethoven, Brahms, Schnittke and Bowen.

Through four centuries of influence, the language of the King James Bible has left an indelible mark on the cultural landscape around the world.

Event: The World Class Studio Performance series is a recently developed program that features Butler School of Music students performing in the greater Austin community.

A film by Radio-Television-Film alumna Gigi Causey is the only U.S. title in the running for Best Live Action Short at this Sunday’s Academy Awards.

Event: “New York Stories,” a contemporary opera written by Daron Hagen, will debut in its entirety at the Butler Opera Center at The University of Texas at Austin later this month.

Event: The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music will host a memorial to honor the late Gerre Hancock, organ and sacred music professor, who died Jan. 21 due to cardiac arrest.

Event: Rebecca Henderson, oboe, and Sandy Yamamoto, violin, will join The University of Texas at Austin Symphony Orchestra (UTSO) in the ensemble’s first performance of the semester.