Basically Beethoven

07/27/2026

For the first time, we had to have a waiting list for Moody Performance Hall! More than 740 (capacity for Moody) RSVPs for the final concert of ! Thank you to all who attended and especially to our wonderful musicians !!

07/25/2026

Raffles through Sunday, July 26 - you can buy tickets online now until the Featured Performance. Check them all out here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/organizations/basically-beethoven

07/25/2026

Sunday, July 26 - live at Moody Performance Hall! RSVP, musician bios, raffles, and FAQs on our website. Free - thanks to our presenting sponsor Capital One and operating and dedicated funds from City of Dallas - Office of Arts and Culture, Moody Fund for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, TACA, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and individual donors like YOU! 💐

07/20/2026

Final concert of Basically Beethoven Festival 2026 this Sunday! Featured Performance: Mozart’s ‘Gran Partita’ Rising Star: Pianist Lucas Pei. 2:30pm - RSVP on our website. Join us for more music, coffee and cash bar following the Mozart to celebrate 45 years of Basically Beethoven!

07/20/2026

This Sunday, hear Mozart’s ‘Gran Partita’ live at the Basically Beethoven Festival’s 3rd and final 2026 concert. Free at Moody Performance Hall. Visit our website for information and to RSVP

07/18/2026

NEW! (Link below) We're trying something with our popular BBF raffles. You can now pre-pay online via credit card (or cash, check, or credit card at the concert) to help support Basically Beethoven through our concert raffles! Starting today through Sunday are Travis Carrol Music Lessons and 5 Guest Pass tickets to the Studio Movie Grill. Starting today through Sunday the 26th are 2 tickets to The Dallas Opera and an incredible offer from TexasCellos. More raffles will be added prior to the final concert on the 26th.

Click on the link for Zeffy or visit the front desk pre-show and intermission at the concert. Your name will be automatically added either way (online or in-person) to win. Check the front table at the end of the concert or, if you forget and you win, we'll be in touch.

Thank you to these organizations for their generous donations towards supporting our mission.

Link to Zeffy:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/organizations/basically-beethoven

07/13/2026

Basically Beethoven Festival, Concert #1 of 3 - a great day ♥️ please share pics if you have them!

07/13/2026

Sunday, July 19, 2026 - FREE at Moody Performance Hall

2:30pm - Rising Stars: TexasCellos Ambassadors - 12 cellists!

Repertoire:
Handy arr. Müller — St. Louis Blues
Henry Purcell arr. Sollima — Strike The Viol
Beethoven arr. Sollima — Symphony No 7, Allegretto
Jacob Collier arr. Soltani — World O World
Morricone arr. Kaiser-Lindemann —The Man with the Harmonica
Samuel Ward — America the Beautiful

3:00pm - Featured Artists: Filip Fenrych, violin; Sarah Sung, viola; Alexander Heather, bass; Gina Ford, oboe; Marci Gurnow, clarinet

Repertoire:
Edgar Meyer — Grand Duo for violin and double bass
Rebecca Clark — Duo for clarinet and viola
Prokofiev Quintet

07/08/2026

This Sunday, July 12, 2:30pm FREE at Moody Performance Hall, Dallas. RSVP and more information on our website.

2:30pm - Rising Stars: Performer Diploma Students in the Music Division of the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, present Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Telephone" featuring Kathryn Piña, soprano, Rey Winn, baritone, with Hannah St. Romain, SMU staff accompanist, collaborative piano. 24 minutes in English.

Synopsis: The Telephone involves a love triangle - between a man, a woman, and a telephone.

3:00pm - Featured Artist: Sara Daneshpour performs Liszt: Transcendental Études, S.139

Pianist Sara Daneshpour has worldwide audiences and critics spellbound with her “blazing technique, power, expressivity, imagination and stage presence” (The New York Concert Review), establishing herself as one of the most refined artists of her generation.

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