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This weekend, Ballet Austin will stage the world premiere of The Mozart Project, a three-part production celebrating the music of a master.

With the help of Graham Reynolds, DJ Spooky and Dr.

Austin Goes Classical was the biggest classical guitar festival ever, and it happened this past June right here in Austin at the Long Center.

Folks came out from 25 countries, Austin's Mayor and the UT System Chancellor were both MCs, there was a youth orchestra with 200 kids premiering a new piece by Austin's Graham Reynolds, the Austin Symphony played, the Biscuit Brothers entertained, Master Pancake heckled with the Alamo's Rolling Roadshow and, of course, the greatest classical players in the world plucked.

They’re at it again. Austin’s busiest indie alt classical musicians Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds are going to battle it over the ivories this Sunday at a piano-playing showdown — at a real piano bar no less.

During ‘Steinway to Hell,’ Reynolds and Stopschinski will swap original compositions, play some classics together and separately and throw in a free wheeling pop cover or two, with a few stories along the way.

And throw it down.

Upcoming events and releases you shouldn't miss, an award for composer Graham Reynolds, and other local film news. (via Slackerwood)

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Oh, yes, the word ‘cool’ is so over-used. But the Fusebox Festival is the epitome of cool.

Tonight, Fusebox founder and artistic director Ron Berry gathered the crowds at Okay Mountain gallery to announce the line-up for the 11-day mind-blowing indulgence of performance and time-based art.

Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski — perhaps Austin’s busiest musicians and certainly some of the most prolific artists of any discipline in town — will premiere the sixth symphonies together on Feb. 6.

The duo’s Golden Hornet Project will premiere Reynolds’ ‘The Difference Engine’ and Stopschinski’s ‘Rough Night with Happy Ending.’

Choreographer Allison Orr has coaxed firefighters, dog walker, Elvis impersonators and Venetian gondoliers to be dancers.

In the process, Orr has created not just spirited shows, but also poked at our pre-conceived notions of what kind of movement can be considered dance.

Now, the innovative Austin dancemaker transforms the movements and equipment of 25 workers from the city’s Solid Waste Services Department and 16 trash-collecting vehicles into a large-scale dance celebration of the physical labor most of us overlook.

This Saturday, September 12th, at 7:30 pm, come to a free performance by Forklift Danceworks of “The Trash Project” on the Austin Studios tarmac in the Robert Mueller complex (1901 East 51st St).

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YOU ARE INVITED TO RUDE MECHS' ANNUAL FUNDRAISER featuring custom-cooked concoctions, martian martinis from the side bar, stellar beats from DJ Graham Reynolds, and Austin's best businesses on display in the Silent Auction, including festival badges for AGLIFF, Austin Film Festival and Fantastic Fest!

Come support the hardest working dramatists in the galaxy and party like it's 19,999!