by JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Italian pianist, Leonardo Colafelicereturns to Texas to perform Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, with the Kerrville-based Symphony of the Hills, conducted by Eugene Dowdy. Colafelice is regularly invited to play with orchestras throughout Italy and throughout the world. In 2020, He won the bronze medal and the Audience’s Favorite Prize at the Gurwitz International Piano …
Lots of good music coming up! The San Antonio Philharmonic is going to play one of our favorite symphonies: Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, this Friday and Saturday. Why it was named “Jupiter” is not entirely clear, but the music is glorious and exuberant, the kind of music you surrender to. Also on the program is contemporary composer Jessie Montgomery’s “Divided,” specifically …
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY Valentine’s is the day to celebrate Love, and a little humor makes it even more fun. So, ARTS ALIVE SAN ANTONIO decided to help with the humor part! Here are a few things we found that you might find amusing. “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be, well, January.” — Jim Gaffigan “By all means marry. If …
Theatergoers will have good choices this weekend and beyond. The Classic Theater of San Antonio is opening “Fences,” a powerful drama written by August Wilson, the playwright who lived the life that his characters often struggle through. He’s been referred to as “Theater’s poet of Black America” and two of his plays, including “Fences” won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Astor Piazzolla was, and continues to be, the king of tango music, but few people know that he also composed a tango opera titled “Maria de Buenos Aires,” which has recently become the darling of opera houses, looking for original and “different” material. A tango opera sounds almost too good to be true. Opera San Antonio …
Musical Bridges Around the World is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with a four-day UNITYFest, with jazz and classical music concerts taking place Feb. 2-5 at several locations around town. Founded by Russian-born pianist, Anya Grokhovski in 1998, the organization’s first concert took place in the founder’s home and later expanded to house concerts in the homes of supporters …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Theater is a normally a hybrid of spoken word and action, but a growing interest in “physical theater” greatly emphasizes the physical action at the expense of the traditional scripted dialogue. If you would like to experience a physical theater show, you’ll have an opportunity to do so when a new work, “We Sail On In …
We are fortunate to have a lot of good music here in San Antonio. This weekend, The San Antonio Philharmonic will perform an homage to the life and work of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, inaugurating its 2023 pop series, and featuring music of a number of famed composers of past and present. Conducted by Charles Floyd, the program …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor On Sunday, Jan. 15, I attended a spirited short concert featuring two remarkable artists, violinist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio and pianist Jeffrey Sykes. They played beautifully together but musical harmony is not the only connection between these two. One of them, Sant’Ambrogio, was the founder of the summer chamber music showcase, the Cactus Pear Music Festival, and the …
The live theater scene is getting livelier. The latest addition is the San Antonio Broadway Theater founded by a San Antonian, Lauren Cosio Kotkowski, who has returned home after years in New York, determined to bring Broadway-level productions to her hometown. We’ll save the story of how and why she returned for another occasion, but it so happened that during …
