The Fall season is getting lively as music groups launch their seasons. Camerata San Antonio is opening with QUARTETS, a concert of, well, quartets by Beethoven, Haydn and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, an African-American composer who wrote a great deal of music inspired by jazz. The Camerata ensemble is trying to include more women composers and black composers who were often overlooked …

By STEVEN G. KELLMAN In this town, tacos are a bargain, which is why Eddie Vega proclaims himself “The Taco Poet.” He celebrates poetry as a popular, accessible art. Inaugurated last April as San Antonio’s seventh poet laureate, he embraces the opportunity his new position provides him to be out and about spreading the gospel of his literary art. When …