Stuntboy, In the Meantime
Wed, Nov 5
Bass Concert Hall
Miró Quartet and Isidore String Quartet
Mendelssohn’s Octet at 200: A Legacy In Sound
Fri, Nov 7
Bates Recital Hall
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NOV 5, 2025
Texas Performing Arts presents
Stuntboy, In the Meantime
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Jason Reynolds’s bestselling graphic novel comes to the stage! Step into the world of Portico Reeves in this inspiring family musical that captures the highs and hurdles of growing up, friendship, and the courage to overcome fears. Join a heartfelt journey with Portico, a middle schooler whose “superpower” is keeping his loved ones safe. But when his parents face divorce, Portico’s worries give him “the frets”—or what his Gran calls anxiety. Will his courage and imagination be enough to see him through?
Adapted from Jason Reynolds and Raúl the Third’s bestselling graphic novel of the same name, Stuntboy, In the Meantime shows that everyone, young and old, has the power to conquer their “frets” and find strength in family, friendship, and self-belief.
Original Credits
Book and Lyrics by Melvin Tunstall, III
Music by Greg Dean Borowsky and Melvin Tunstall, III Direction & Choreography by Banji Aborisade
Based on the book Stuntboy, In the Meantime Text © 2021 by Jason Reynolds, Illustration © 2021 by Raúl the Third Used with the permission of Pippin Properties, Inc and Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc.
2025 Preview Tour Production Photos by Jeremy Daniel.
Cast
Zola Brawner - PAYTON TABB
Mr. Reeves & Others - XAVIER CORNELL
Mrs. Reeves & Others - MARKIA NICOLE SMITH
Portico Reeves - BRYANT
Herbert Singletary the Worst - KOLTER ERICKSON
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Scenic Designer - Frank J Oliva
Costume Designer - Christopher Vergara
Lighting Designer - Ethan Newman
Orchestrations - Greg Dean Borowsky
Music Assistant - Ethan Packhar
Props Assistant - Emmarose Campbell
Tour Music Director - Jason Goldston
Stage Manager - Hannah B. Loftus
Associate Director/ Choreographer - Kristen Grace Brown
Song List
Stuntboy Opening The Frets Keep It Together Keep It Together (rep.) Start Stuntin’ Mission Accomplished The Worst Greatest Soup-erhero Above and Beyond Legendary Torn Who You Are Stuntboy Finale Bows (Legendary)
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BATES RECITAL HALL
Texas Performing Arts presents
Miró Quartet and Isidore String Quartet
Mendelssohn’s Octet at
200: A Legacy In Sound
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MIRÓ QUARTET
Daniel Ching, violin
John Largess, viola
William Fedkenheuer, violin
Joshua Gindele, cello
ISIDORE QUARTET
Phoenix Avalon, violin
Devin Moore, viola
Adrian Steele, violin
Joshua McClendon, cello
PROGRAM
Mendelssohn’s Octet at 200: A Legacy In Sound
String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 76, No. 4 “Sunrise” (1797)
Allegro con spirito
Adagio
Menuetto (Allegro)
Finale (Allegro ma non troppo)
Performed by Isidore String Quartet
Microfictions [Volume 1] (2021)
I. Under the hot sun…
II. The photographs smeared…
III. The summer storm laughed…
Franz Josef Haydn 1732–1809
Caroline Shaw b. 1982
III & 1/2. Between the third and fourth movements…
IV. The complex taxonomy…
V. Waking up on the early side…
VI. The mountains folded in…
Performed by Miró Quartet -intermission-
Octet in E-flat, Op. 20 (1825)
Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
Andante
Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo
Presto
Felix Mendelssohn 1809–1847
PROGRAM NOTES
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 76, no. 4 “Sunrise”
When Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) wrote his String Quartet in B-flat Major, P. 76, no. 4 “Sunrise”, in 1797, he was well into his sixties and was the preeminent figure in European music. Having already revolutionized almost every genre of composition, Haydn could have remained a polite figure and rested on his success. His exploration in musical form and orchestration in the last 20 years of his life, however, reveal a restless intellectual always reaching for more intriguing modes of composition.
The first movement of the “Sunrise” quartet begins as the nickname would suggest, with a contemplative chord and an upwardly searching melody. When suddenly the Allegro con Spirito emerges vibrantly, we are thrust into some of Haydn’s most expressive music. The instruments never settle into roles for long. While the first violin is the primary keeper of the melody, the responsibility of being the most active voice is passed from one player to another frequently. The melody that began the piece with such serenity is now fuel for restlessness and volatility.
The second movement is one long line, a luxurious Adagio
driven by a soaring, rhapsodic melody in the first violin and dense harmonic accompaniment. Although it is strictly structured and reminiscent of themes from the first movement, the entire thing feels improvised, and the effect on the listener is almost hypnotic. Haydn has a reputation for being rote, metric, and expected, but in this movement, time feels irrelevant and structure useless.
The third movement minuet is a stark awakening from the Adagio. It is the most metrically strict and conventionally danceable movement of the piece. It clocks along initially as a moment of transition between the second and final movements, but it is hardly perfunctory. Just as the movement settles in, the second section makes the music feel as if it is falling apart - the instruments volley back and forth unsteadily, unfurling to the point that all feels like it will end with a whimper. Almost as suddenly as in the first movement, Haydn reinvigorates the music by repeating the dance that has come before.
The final movement represents a culmination and is written with Haydn’s trademark joviality. The melody that pervades the movement is jaunty, joyfully reprising the motifs from earlier in the piece. Its rondo form feels like a theme and variation, the dance-like melody reappearing again and again between small sections of pure embellishment.
In a cheerful conclusion typical of Haydn, the piece ends where it began, in a rush, punctuated like in the very beginning by a rising figure in the violin.
Note by Connor Buckley
CAROLINE SHAW
Microfictions [Vol. 1]
Microfictions [Vol. 1] is a set of six short musical stories, in the tradition of imagist poetry and surrealist painting, inspired in part by the work of Joan Miró and the short science fiction of T.R. Darling. Each movement is brief but vivid, with a distinct sonic profile that is inspired by (or, inversely, served as inspiration for) original microfiction stories that are inscribed in the score. One’s interpretation of the stories and of the music can be varied — there is no one right way to connect the sounds and images or ideas. Rather, I hope that the words create an environment for curious listening, and an invitation to imagination. These short texts have been abbreviated in the movement titles listed in the program, but the full texts are:
I. Under the hot sun, the road signs melted until they were the color of an unrhymed couplet, pointing to cadences left or north.
II. The photographs smeared into focus one by one, like organ pipes being tuned. Some of edges and corners were torn, but
the tune was still visible.
III. The summer storm laughed and lilted and shouted until it found a shady spot, beneath an oak’s dappled counterpoint.
III & 1/2. Between the third and fourth movements, the second violinist stood up and said hello to the audience. Everyone was grateful to know which movement they were on.
IV. The complete taxonomy of verse forms is buried in a cardboard box beneath a chord that fell from grace.
V. Waking up on the early side that Tuesday, Miró noticed a bird repeating its solitary caption. The clouds nodded to the tempo of an undiscovered Mendelssohn song.
VI. The mountains folded in among themselves, as the day grew on. Their songs could only be heard in heavy fragments, obliquely, from years and miles below.
My thanks to the wonderful Miró Quartet for all of the collaborative exchange while writing this piece.
—Caroline Shaw
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Octet for strings in Eb-Major, Op. 20
It is probably too often repeated when discussing Felix Mendelssohn’s (1809-1847) String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, but it is no less astonishing each time it’s repeated: the composer was 16 when he wrote this piece.
It is a nebulous and contentious problem to determine greatness in classical music. Here, it is unquestionable. Mendelssohn’s Octet is not simply a competent work by a precocious teenager, but a supreme work of imagination by one of the great composers of the era. It is among the best examples of his early work. Not only did Mendelssohn essentially invent a new genre of chamber music by writing for eight equally collaborative string players, he also demonstrated that his compositional voice was fresh and unique, a feat that many composers never fully attain, let alone so early.
Like a Shakespearean play, the first movement wastes no time throwing you into the action. From there, it is one long line that never stops moving. Mendelssohn was an expert at conveying spontaneity and joy in his work, often using formal tricks to catch the listener off guard, even with previously heard material. Here, he accomplishes this with a slightly unusual sonata form where the initial exposition of thematic material is very long, taking up about half of the movement. Mendelssohn does this to delay the development of the material, building expectations and making the listener like a dance club audience member waiting for the bass to drop. It is also an aesthetic statement in contrast to Beethoven’s formal innovations, which
often centered around long development sections. Ever the classicist, Mendelssohn is swinging the pendulum an exaggerated amount back toward the era of Mozart and Haydn.
The second movement is an exercise in contrast. It is the movement where Mendelssohn plays most with the paradox of his ensemble as both a large string quartet and a small chamber orchestra. Its delicate salon room beginning signals a calm, Haydn-like slow movement, but it quickly swells to its concert hall potential, volleying frequently between the two extremes throughout.
The third movement scherzo is the first of what would become a signature for Mendelssohn: the light, fairy-like texture of his later Midsummer Night’s Dream overture. This dispenses with the broad, heavy sound of a Beethoven string quartet orchestration, opting instead for a treatment that makes even this large ensemble sound effervescent. It is an early showcase of a gift for clarity that Mendelssohn had when writing for even the largest ensembles, a gift that future fastidious composers like Maurice Ravel esteemed.
The final movement presto is in part a recap of the scherzo. It is an expert performance in contrapuntal writing, beginning with a fugato for all eight performers that echoes material from the first movement. Its
chattering perpetual motion is a nod to the Baroque music that Mendelssohn studied so closely and would soon champion so strongly, especially that of Bach but also of Handel, whose Hallelujah Chorus is quoted often here. It is music of pure elation, a dazzling performance of virtuosity that ends, competent and assured, with a modest final cadence.
Note by Connor Buckley
MIRÓ QUARTET
Daniel Ching and William Fedkenheuer, violins
John Largess, viola Joshua Gindele, cello
The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, praised as “furiously committed” by The New Yorker and recognized for its “exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Marking 30 years together in 2025, the GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble has performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike. Based in Austin, TX and thriving in the area’s storied music scene, the Miró Quartet takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding tradition of chamber music.
During their 30th anniversary
season, the Miró Quartet appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Clark Library in Los Angeles, Music@Menlo, Denver Friends of Chamber Music, Chamber Music Detroit, Chamber Music Sedona, Chamber Music Tulsa, String Theory at the Hunter and Hunter Museum of American Art, Music Toronto, International Classical Concerts, BIG ARTS, Blanco Performing Arts, Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, and more.
In May 2024, the Miró Quartet released its second album on Pentatone, Home, praised for “breathtaking performances” (Strings Magazine) of two new commissions by Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw, as well as works by George Walker and Samuel Barber. The album “...has made a home to welcome any receptive listener... its playing radiates familiarity with the music beyond the notes.” (The Strad). The Miró Quartet toured the album’s program throughout the United States.
Among its many previous recordings for a variety of global labels, the quartet was nominated for a 2025 GRAMMY® Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for its album Home (PENTATONE, 2024), featuring two new commissions by Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw, as well as works by George Walker and Samuel Barber. The group was nominated for
a 2024 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance for House of Belonging, created in collaboration with Austin-based choral group Conspirare. The Miró Quartet also produced an Emmy Award-winning audiovisual multimedia project titled Transcendence, a documentary centered around a performance of Franz Schubert’s Quartet in G Major on rare Stradivarius instruments, available on live stream, CD, and Blu-ray. The Miró Quartet’s past projects have included touring and recording with pianist Lara Downes for Here on Earth, the premiere of a new version of Kevin Puts’ Credo with the Naples Philharmonic, and collaborations with composers Steven Banks, TamarKali, and Gabriel Kahane, as well as soprano Karen Slack.
Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet was awarded first prize at several national and international competitions including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. Deeply committed to music education, members of the Quartet have given master classes at universities and conservatories throughout the world, and since 2003 the Miró Quartet has served as the quartet-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music. In 2005, the Miró Quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded
the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant.
The Miró Quartet took its name and inspiration from the Spanish artist Joan Miró, whose Surrealist works—with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory, dreams, and imaginative fantasy—are some of the most groundbreaking, influential, and admired of the 20th Century. Visit miroquartet.com for more information.
ISIDORE QUARTET
Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violins Devin Moore, viola Joshua McClendon, cello
“A polished sonority and well-balanced, tightly synchronized ensemble with nearly faultless intonation...it is heartening to know that chamber music is in good hands with such gifted young ensembles as the Isidore Quartet.” —Chicago Classical Review
Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were
firmly established.’
The quartet began as an ensemble at the Juilliard School, and has coached with Joel Krosnick, Joseph Lin, Astrid Schween, Laurie Smukler, Joseph Kalichstein, Roger Tapping, Misha Amory, and numerous others.
In North America, the Isidore Quartet has appeared on major series in Boston, New York, Berkeley, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Durham, Washington DC, Houston, San Francisco, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, and has collaborated with several eminent performers including James Ehnes and Jeremy Denk. Their 25/26 season includes performances in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Calgary, Tulsa, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, New York, Washington’s Library of Congress, plus return engagements in Montreal, Berkeley, Houston, La Jolla, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Baltimore, and Spivey Hall in Georgia. First-time collaborations include clarinetist Anthony McGill, cellist Sterling Elliott, and the Miró Quartet.
In Europe they have performed at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and in Bonn (Beethoven Haus), Stuttgart, Cologne, and Dresden, among many others. During 25/26 they will make their debuts in Paris (Philharmonie) and London (Wigmore Hall). Over the past several years,
the quartet has developed a strong connection to the works of composer and pianist Billy Childs, performing his Quartets No. 2 and 3 throughout North America and Europe. In February 2026 they will premiere a new Childs quartet written expressly for them.
Both on stage and outside the concert hall, the Isidore Quartet is deeply invested in connecting with youth and elderly populations, and with marginalized communities who otherwise have limited access to high-quality live music performance. They approach music as a “playground” and attempt to break down barriers to encourage collaboration and creativity. The name Isidore recognizes the ensemble’s musical connection to the Juilliard Quartet: one of that group’s early members was legendary violinist Isidore Cohen. Additionally, it acknowledges a shared affection for a certain libation - legend has it a Greek monk named Isidore concocted the first genuine vodka recipe for the Grand Duchy of Moscow!
Miró Quartet is represented by MKI Artists; Recordings: Bridge Records, Oxingale Records, Longhorn Music, Miró Quartet Media www.miroquartet.com
Isidore Quartet appears by arrangement with David Rowe Artists www.davidroweartists.com
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Feb 27, 2026 | Draylen Mason Music Studio, KMFA
Feb 28, 2026 | First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin
TPA and the Austin Chamber Music Center present the acclaimed Balourdet Quartet—recipients of Chamber Music America’s 2024 Cleveland Quartet Award—for two Austin performances featuring energetic interpretations of Bartók, Ravel, and Brahms.
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Texas Performing Arts Staff
LEADERSHIP
Bob Bursey, Executive & Artistic Director
Bianca Hooi, Executive & Artistic Project Manager
Priscilla Perales, Assistant to the Executive & Artistic Director
PROGRAMMING
Bobby Asher, Director of Programming
Brendan Burke, Programming Manager
OPERATIONS
Sean Thorne, Managing Director
Cameron Weed, Human Resources Manager
Nathan Harper, Facilities Manager
Kristi Lampi, Director of Business Operations
Leigh Remeny, Business Operations Manager
Basil Montemayor, Business Operations Associate
Kat Carson, Senior Event Manager
Talia Graves, Event Manager
Alexander Reindl, Event Manager
Mia Spidel, Emerging Arts Professional, Programming & Events
MARKETING
& SALES
Dane Munson, Director of Marketing & Sales
Romina Jara, Associate Director, Marketing
Brady Dyer, Associate Director, Communications
Lizzie Choffel Cantu, Design Manager
Erica De Leon, Digital Marketing Manager
Lindsey Sageser, Marketing Associate
Madison Tran, Design & Media Associate
Tara Vela, Director of Ticketing
Dianne Whitehair, Ticketing Systems Manager
Alexander Baylor, Ticketing Manager
Elizabeth Requenez, Ticketing Manager
Meredith Delay, Texas Inner Circle Ticket Concierge
Sereniti Patterson, Emerging Arts Professional, Ticketing
DEVELOPMENT
Anna Langdell, Director of Development
Jeannette Thomas, Director of Major Gifts
Amy Burgar, Associate Director, Development
Chelsea Casner, Development Specialist, Major Gifts
Miguel Robles, Development Specialist, Operations
Sara Morales, Development Specialist, Membership and Sponsorship
EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT
Tim Rogers, Director of Education & Engagement
Eric Vera, Education Program Manager
Aubrey Felty, Education & Engagement Program Coordinator
Insha Iqbal, Emerging Arts Professional, Education & Engagement
PRODUCTION
Blake Addyson, Director of Production
John Lewis, Production Supervisor
Mika O’Dwyer, Assistant Production Supervisor
Drew Millay, Audio/Video Supervisor
Bryce Riggle, Assistant
Audio/Video Supervisor
John “Hutch” Hutchinson, Assistant Audio/Video Supervisor
Camryn Senioris, Lighting Supervisor
Tracy Abercrombie, Assistant Lighting Supervisor
Brooke Dickerson, Assistant Lighting Supervisor
Travis Perrin, Staging & Rigging Supervisor
Audrey McGovern, Assistant
Staging & Rigging Supervisor
Jessie Mikolaichik, Assistant
Staging & Rigging Supervisor
GUEST EXPERIENCE
Blake McDonald, Director of Guest Experience
Amanda Adams, Associate Director, Guest Services
Kourtney Johnson, Guest Services Manager
FABRICATION & ACADEMIC PRODUCTION
Jeff Grapko, Director of Fabrication & Academic Production
Karen Maness, Associate Director, Fabrication
David Tolin, Project Manager, Fabrication
Jason Huerta, Operations Manager, Fabrication
Scott Bussey, Senior Technical Director
Earnest Mazique, Academic Production Technology Manager
Ashton Bennett Murphy, Properties Manager
Hank Schwemmer, Lead Fabricator
Eliot Haynes, Assistant
Audio/Video Supervisor, Academic Production
Michael Shanks, Assistant Lighting Supervisor, Academic Production
Leah Austin, Emerging
Arts Professional, Stage Properties
Julia Yelvington, Emerging Arts Professional, Scenic Art
Texas Performing Arts is also proud to acknowledge the hundreds of part-time and volunteer staff who play a critical role in presenting our annual season of world-class performing arts events to the Austin community.
House Managers
Dina Black
Megan Born
Virginia Bosman
Margaret Byron
Nancy Carrales
Sally Deweber
Sheri Dildy
Janine Dos Remedios
Amy Fuchs
Tony C Garcia
Joshua Hale
Leslie Hawkins
Carlos Hernandez-Heine
Olga Kasma-Carnes
Tamara Klindt
Sharon Kojzarek
Eric Lee
Lara Miller
Adrian Pena
Kimberly Reaves
Student Employees
Juno Adair
Joe Adkins
Daniela Albert
Nahla Beltran
Madhav Bhat
Juliana Brandao
Jose Calvillo
Hayley Carbajal
Jacob Cardenas
Sophia Carter
Eugenio Chapa
Lilly Cheesar
Rebecca Couch
Marie Jolie Day
Ava Deviney
Ally Dolley
Griffin Drake
Amanda Earp
Mariah Espocito
Sarah Jayne Ewing
Carla Garcia Leija
Ravleen Kaur Gill
Erin Glasscock
Dariela Gonzalez
Mia Guerra
Sarah Hartley
Catherine Heeman
Gabriela Hernandez
Alisa Irvin
Madison Jackson
Joe Jaxson
PJ Jetton
Bindi Kaplan
Dylan Lebensfeld
Codie Lightfoot
Jacqueline Mai
Anapaula MartinezBorrell
Regina Mendiola
Joe Morales
Mirabai Munton
Rachel Norris
Jessica Reed
Lee Rodgers
Mary Ruiz
Gracie Sanders
Andrea R Stanfill Castro
Debra Thomas
Leah Waheed
Marty Watson
Tonya Woods
Valeria Nunez Estrada
Michael Okooti
Lily Orozco
Zoya Patel
Valeria Blanco Perez
Blake Persyn
Haley Prince
Breanna Pruitt
Kenneth Qu
Caroline Ramsey
Frederick Richardson
Jose Salcido
Zoe Saldana
Robin Schuler
Ethan Sebree
Erin Simpson
Rain Snyder
Laura Soares
Nguyen Tang
Tara Tran
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