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The composer has had commissions from the Dallas Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Dallas new music ensemble, Voices of Change
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Kansas City Chiefs' Rashee Rice surrenders to police; SMU suspends football player involved in crashTheodore Knox, 21, was driving the other speeding sports car, a Corvette, Dallas police said, and arrest warrants were issued for Knox on the same range of counts as for Rice.
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The rock drummer-turned-film composer has been to SMU before, in 2012. This time, Stewart Copeland gets the Meadows Award and will lead the Meadows Orchestra in his arrangement of Police songs.
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The Atlantic Coast Conference has cleared the way for Stanford, California and SMU to join the league next year, two people with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Friday, providing a landing spot for two more teams from the disintegrating Pac-12.
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The court’s ruling will change admissions practices at the University of Texas at Austin, the state’s only large public university that considers race, and some private universities.
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Because the Dallas contest packs so much piano playing, fun and educational events into more than a week, organizers - and participants - call it a festival.
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The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was born amid the US-Russian Cold War in the early '60s. And the contest has maintained an open, apolitical stance ever since. But that hasn't prevented a dwindling of Russian competitors — until there are none at this year's Junior Cliburn.
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The Oak Cliff Film Festival will show several short films by Texas student filmmakers on Friday night.
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Many major highways in Dallas were built through neighborhoods of color.
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Sonny Dykes spent the past four seasons at SMU before his return to the other side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The son of former Texas Tech coach Spike Dykes had been considered a top candidate for the Frogs job since Gary Patterson and TCU mutually agreed Oct. 31 to part ways with four games left in the season.
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Regardless of why SMU and TCU couldn’t find a way to pull off the 100th meeting between the Dallas-Fort Worth rivals last season, it’s happening a year later.
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Researchers at Southern Methodist University have discovered a way to more effectively treat cervical cancer with lower chemotherapy doses and fewer side effects. The key is a protein called TIGAR.