The Gudalupe Cultural Arts Center is opening its new season by celebrating the 30th anniversary of “Rio Bravo” which premiered in July 1994. This writer was the dance critic for the daily newspaper back then and remembers the beautiful show. The dance company danced to the music of Mariachi Azteca de America. Colors and rhythms and great dancers captivated the …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor What motivated you to form the SOLI Quartet, and who were the original members?SOLI was born out of a desire to make music together with friends and to commission new works from emerging composers of our time. SOLI’s unique instrumentation of clarinet, violin, cello and piano, combined brought about new colors and sounds for the composers …
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 …
Let’s start with the Visual Arts this time. One exhibit that should not be missed is “Sacred Art of Altars: One People Many Paths, currently at the San Antonio Art League and Museum. The exhibit features small, artist-made shrines. Each piece has an identical shape and size (12” wide x 14” tall niche) but each “altar” is decorated by an …
Let’s start with the Visual Arts this time. One exhibit that should not be missed is “Sacred Art of Altars: One People Many Paths, currently at the San Antonio Art League and Museum. The exhibit features small, artist-made shrines. Each piece has an identical shape and size (12” wide x 14” tall niche) but each “altar” is decorated by an …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor When cellist Ken Freudigman was nine years old, his mother took him to a concert in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that featured the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. As his mother tells the story, once the virtuosic Slava started playing, her squirmy little boy became transfixed by the player and the sound of the cello, and sat …
Let’s start with the Visual Arts this time. You probably remember the horrible human trafficking tragedy that happened on June 27, 2022, when 53 migrants suffocated in a closed tractor- trailer on the south side. The driver just left them there. In a sincere effort to honor the memory of these 53 migrants, Bexar County Commissioner, Rebeca Clay-Flores commissioned local …
Reviewed by Steven G Kellman Water is the origin of all things, according to the ancient philosopher Thales of Miletus. And water keeps the story flowing throughout Elif Shafak’s 13th novel – her 9th in English – the author’s third language, after Turkish and Spanish. There Are Rivers in the Sky is a tale of two rivers – the Tigris …
August is relatively quiet month, especially for classical/art music but there are exceptions. One chamber music group, The Olmos Ensemble, has a Summer Concert Series which started Aug. 4. The next concert on Aug. 11, will be focused on Baroque music, highlighting the works of Bach and Vivaldi. No specific works are listed. (Aug 18, 3-5 p.m., Shepherd King Lutheran …
