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TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS

line upon line: UPSTREAM

December 17 & 18 at 7:00 p.m. | Live Outdoor Performance

line upon line: upstream

Bass Concert Hall Plaza

In the spring of 2008, just around the corner from the Bass plaza, in the then newly minted Butler School of Music, the earliest ideas of line upon line were hatched. Making new things with composers was a favorite thing to do at the Butler School then, and remains a favorite thing to do now. The current state of the world has somehow only solidified that. Making new things is intangibly, sometimes illogically, important. So this show is two brand new things, commissioned, workshopped and written over the last couple of months, and one thing that is slightly less new, but still new to US audiences.

Program:
Kelley Sheehan (b. 1989)       
Sentience (2020) *world premiere
Isaac Blumfield (b. 1996)       
Sunken Landscape: thread of light (2020) *world premiere
David Bird (b. 1990)       
decoder (2017) *US premiere

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  • Cost: Starting at $20.00

Presenter Details

  • Name: Texas Performing Arts
  • Texas Performing Arts is the performing arts presenting program of The University of Texas at Austin and operates campus venues including Bass Concert Hall and McCullough Theatre.  It is the home of the Lexus Broadway in Austin series. In calendar year 2019 Bass Concert Hall had the highest number of tickets sold of any theater in Austin, was #2 in the State of Texas and #22 in the world, according to industry publication Pollstar. Following a national search, Tony Award-winning producer Bob Bursey was appointed Executive Director in January, 2020.