BY PHIL HOUSEAL, Contributor A dozen miles northeast of Boerne lies a subterranean setting so beautiful, the founders couldn’t come up with a name it deserved. Welcome to the wonderful world of Cave Without A Name. Yes, that is the name it was given in a contest held shortly after its accidental discovery in 1935 by three children (more on …
As is usual in the fall, arts organization get into high gear. Let’s start with music! The San Antonio Philharmonic will perform Classics II concert, conducted by music director Jeffrey Kahane, and featuring Nicholas Namoradze on the piano. The concert begins with Sarah Kirkland Snider’s evocative “Forward into Light,” a meditation on perseverance, bravery and alliance inspired by American women …
Reviewed by Steven G. Kellman “Entering any bookstore is a sensory experience,” writes Evan Friss, and he shares that experience in the opening pages of The Bookshop, where he invites the reader to enter Three Lives & Company, an independent emporium in Greenwich Village. Three Lives does not sell puzzles, greeting cards, gift wrap, or coffee, and it does …
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 …
