The two music festivals we told you about in the last two NEWS ROUNDUPs are resuming this weekend. The Mozart Festival will present its second concert on Sunday, featuring the Artisan Quartet performing works by Mozart, Hugo Wolf, and Tchaikovsky. When we asked festival founder and conductor, Terence Frazor, about the inclusion of Tchaikovsky in a festival devoted to Mozart’s …
By JANIS TURK, Contributing Writer EXPERIENCE THE ORIGINAL IMMERSIVE VAN GOGH EXHIBITION IN SAN ANTONIO Last week, beaten down by the relentless afternoon summer heat, I simply stepped into a cool starry night. Yes, I quite literally, entered Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” painting as part of the origonal Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition, a multi-media art event on view …
Uvalde: Not What Our Forefathers Intended By Lita Marie Bonciolini Unfathomable,inconceivable.unimaginable. Words that completely fail to conveythe horrific actions of a twisted personagainst innocents. No ordinary citizen stands a chance againsta weapon that shoots 60 rounds per minute,A security guard, armed with a revolver,could not have prevailed.How many had already died before the police arrived?How many more while they loiteredin hallways, …
Summer is clearly the favorite season for festivals. Following the conclusion of the Cactus Pear Music Festival, here comes another classical music fest, The Mozart Festival Texas, that will present three concerts on three consecutive Sundays. It opens this Sunday at the Bennack Concert Hall on the campus of the University of the Incarnate Word. Created by conductor and music …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy and a musical genius. He started composing at the age of seven and wrote several “baby concertos” before he was nine. But at 19, he wrote his 9th piano concerto. “That one is amazing, a masterpiece,” said Terrence Frazor, a University of the Incarnate Word professor and the founder …
Aftermath, Uvalde By Sarah Colby The first thing she sees when she stumblesthrough the back door is the refrigerator,the one everyone in the family pitched in to buywhen they learned she was expecting her first baby.Eleven years later it’s still running, plastered with pictures—cousins, friends, Nana and Popi’s 50th anniversary, tubing the Nuecesfor spring break—and a red and pink construction …
Things are looking up for the San Antonio thespian community and all of us theater fans! The immediate big news is that the Woodlawn Theater Company will be soon leaving its premises at the historic Woodlawn Theater in the Deco District to relocate a few miles north to the Wonderland of the Americas Mall where it will take over the …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The Public Theater of San Antonio has weathered some tough times recently due to COVID cases among cast and crew of “She Loves Me,” the show slated to run from roughly mid-June to mid-July. Sadly, the production ended up having just a few performances near the end of its expected run. But things are looking up. …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The popular Balcones Height Jazz Festival will once again take place at the Wonderland of the Americas Amphitheater with two nights of smooth jazz music played outdoors around the central lagoon. The first concert will take place this weekend, on July 15, and the second is scheduled for July 29. After a couple of years of …
I Don’t Want to Think About ItJames Brandenburg Gunshots in the distanceThen near, close to homeBullets explode, blowing them apartOur children are dyingOur children are dyingUnrecognizable except for their DNAAll the king’s menAll the king’s horsesCouldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again Fragile children once brokenCan’t be restoredCan’t be put back together again.The egg is shatteredHow many morehave to fall? Beauty …
