INTERVIEW with RUTHIE BUESCHER, founder and leader of the TURNIP ENSEMBLE THEATER By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor of ARTS ALIVE SAN ANTONIO Tell us about how and where you developed an interest in theater?Like a lot of theater-makers, I was exposed to theater at a young age. My grandma, Jean, used to take my siblings and me to see musicals …
NEWS ROUNDUP October 24, 2025 Music is always alive and well in San Antonio. Let’s start with Cinema Classics presented by YOSA, (Youth Orchestras of San Antonio). The YOSA Philharmonic will bring the magic of the movies to the concert hall in Cinema Classics, showcasing the powerful role orchestral music plays in films, including Mussorgsky’s thrilling “Night on Bald Mountain,” …
The Depth of Me: A Quiet Ache for ConnectionBy Carlos Mass There’s a weight to the depth I carry,one that feels both infinite and isolating. It’s not just that I think deeply—it’s that I feel the world in ways that seem to escape others.Every glance, every word spoken, every silence—it’s all magnified in my mind,a web of meaning that ties …
NEWS ROUNDUP, October 16, 2025 The San Antonio Philharmonic is inviting music lovers to its second Classics concert of the 2025-26 season: “Beyond Borders,” conducted by music director Jeffrey Kahane. The person who will take you across those borders is Cuban-American cellist, Tommy Mesa, who will play a composition by Cuban composer Tania Leon and the world premiere of “Mirage” …
Journey by Milton Jordan Read these words aloud with proper pausesfor breath, now and then a slow swallowand reaching stanza breaks imagineyou’ve arrived at a river running high –not that river – still an obstacleon your dangerous, hopeful escape route. Slow your pace to follow the imagined guidewho knows the upstream crossing that tomorrowmay be down enough for wading throughto …
NEWS ROUNDUP, October 9, 2025 As usual, let’s start with music. The San Antonio Chamber Music Society is bringing a famed chamber ensembleto us: the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble which is known for its precision, warmth and expressive depth. It’s one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras.The program includes works by Schubert, Francaix and British …
Is Chamber music your favorite music? “Favorite” is always too tricky to say when it comes to these things, because there are days when a symphony, or cantata, or solo instrument, or chorus, move me like nothing else. But in general in the genre of classical music, chamber music is my favorite music to perform because of the deep conversation …
Guadalupe River Floods- July 4, 2025 In angry tribulation the waters will tremble and rise” Gabriela Mistral – God Wills It The sorrow of the world gathered over Texas and let go.Guadalupe riverbanks trembled.A clearing of souls left bodies in tree limbs to spread sorrow, The river weptchildren from their bedswith rocks and pebblestumbled so wildly they landedon upside down …
NEWS ROUNDUP, Oct. 1, 2025 Camerata San Antonio will perform its Romantic Rhapsody in both San Antonio and Kerrville this weekend, featuring the music of Dvorak, Liszt, and Schumann. “It’s a complete emotional journey, says the press release, from the exhilarating energy of Liszt to the profound power od Dvorak” (Oct. 3 at 4 p.m.; First Presbyterian Church in Kerrville; …
Gauguin’s Paradise (Riders on the Beach, 1902 ) By LITA MARIE BONCIOLINI Pink sand defines the sceneMore than the six horses,bronzed natives riding bareback,legs snug against the muscled sides. or the white capped green wavessuspended in a unison of motionjust before they dissolve with a soft furyon the blush shore. The threatening sky hovers overthe skittish horses, a yellowslicker …
