Editing Austin, Texas (section)

===Music===
{{Main|Music of Austin}}
[[File:ACL2009SBH.jpg|thumb|right|2009 [[Austin City Limits Music Festival]] with view of stages and Downtown Austin]]
As Austin's official slogan is ''The Live Music Capital of the World'', the city has a vibrant live [[Music of Austin|music scene]] with more music venues per capita than any other U.S. city.<ref name="motto" /><ref name="atx_motto" /> Austin's music revolves around the many [[nightclub]]s on 6th Street and an annual music/film/[[interactive]] festival known as [[South by Southwest]] (SXSW). The concentration of restaurants, bars, and music venues in the city's downtown core is a major contributor to Austin's live music scene, as the ZIP Code encompassing the downtown entertainment district hosts the most bar or alcohol-serving establishments in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |title=City Data Top 101 ZIP Codes with most drinking places 2005 |url=http://www.city-data.com/top2/z52.html |access-date=August 20, 2013 |publisher=City Data}}</ref>

The longest-running concert music program on American television, ''[[Austin City Limits]]'', is recorded at [[ACL Live at The Moody Theater]], located in the bottom floor of the {{convert|478|ft|m|0}} [[W Hotels]] in Austin.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zaragoza |first=Sandra |date=February 25, 2010 |title=New Austin City Limits home taking shape |work=[[Austin Business Journal]] |url=http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2010/02/22/daily46.html |access-date=July 3, 2010 |archive-date=February 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228191706/http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2010/02/22/daily46.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Calnan |first=Christopher |date=September 10, 2009 |title=New downtown hotel and residential tower |url=http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/09/07/daily19.html |access-date=July 3, 2010 |archive-date=July 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716205231/http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/09/07/daily19.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Austin City Limits'' and [[C3 Presents]] produce the [[Austin City Limits Music Festival]], an annual music and art festival held at [[Zilker Park]] in Austin. Other music events include the Urban Music Festival, [[Fun Fun Fun Fest]], [[Wobeon Music Festival]], Chaos In Tejas, Seismic Music Festival at the Concourse Project, and [[Old Settler's Music Festival]]. [[Austin Lyric Opera]] performs multiple operas each year (including the 2007 opening of [[Philip Glass]]'s ''[[Waiting for the Barbarians (opera)|Waiting for the Barbarians]]'', written by University of Texas at Austin alumnus [[J. M. Coetzee]]).<ref name="Rossie 2009" /> The [[Austin Symphony Orchestra]] performs a range of classical, pop and family performances and is led by music director and conductor [[Peter Bay]]. The Austin Baroque Orchestra and La Follia Austin Baroque ensembles both give historically informed performances of [[Baroque music]]. The [[Texas Early Music Project]] regularly performs music from the [[Medieval music|Medieval]] and [[Renaissance music|Renaissance]] eras, as well as the Baroque.