The poems we are publishing today were inspired by Carretta Wheel from a Tejano Freighter at the Witte Museum. ADULT WINNERS Abuelo’s First JobBy Diane Gonzales Bertrand Along that dusty Mexico trail,we ate the burro to stay alive.Papa and Rogelio pushed the carrettaas Sergio and Rosalinda crossedthe leather harness between thempulling like two skinny ponies.Catching rain in empty horns,we shared …
Music, poetry and visual arts dominate the arts calendar this weekend and in the coming week The San Antonio Chamber Music Society will be presenting its final concert of the season featuring The Parker String Quartet. The Grammy-Award-winning ensemble, that has been praised for its “luminous sound,” and “dynamic interpretations,” will play music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Leoš JanaÄŤek, GyĹ‘rgy …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Serbian-born artist Maya Sokovic has known Musical Bridges Around the World founder, Anya Grokhovski, for several years because her husband, Zlatan Redzic, often performs for MBAW concerts. But when Sokovic had a solo exhibit at the Brick at Blue Star in 2020, Grokhovski was surprised to discover her talent. “Why didn’t you tell me that you …
EKPHRASTIC POETRY CONTEST WINNERS – Part 4 The poems published today were inspired by “Landscape of four Seasons” by Unkoku Togan, at the San Antonio Museum of Art. ADULT WINNERS Haiku for Landscape of Four SeasonsBy Veronica Morrison We are waiting outthe unrelenting greynessof a somber year. After Unkoku Togan’s “Landscape of Four Seasons”By Mark Heinlein High above the village …
Fiesta is behind us but National Poetry Month continues and the music scene promises some goodies. For all of you who have been missing the San Antonio Symphony concerts, there’s good news. Though the strike continues and negotiations with management are still apparently ongoing, the musicians have also lined up several concerts that they will perform under the auspices of …
By JANIS TURK, Contributing Writer It’s a bright bluebonnet-filled spring Saturday in the Texas Hill Country, when I stop outside San Marcos Texas to visit Tim de Jung and watch him at work in his Wimberley Glass Works glass-blowing studio. When I arrive, Jung, a fun-loving Canadian-turned-Texan, known for his blown-glass art, says he’s going to be busy for a …
The poems we are publishing today were inspired by the Ruby City installation: “Hub, 3rd Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7ST, UK” by Do Ho Suh ADULT WINNERS Pop-Pop’s HallwayBy Robert J. Cavazos A purple haze outline formsthree access points to memory.Sans the RAM of lived experience,what’s sculpted crumples like fabric. Memory only has some steel to …
Fiesta is still with us and it brings us some good music this weekend. But let’s start with the promisingMusical Bridges Around the World’s Sunday concert “Happy Birthday Schubert.” Poor Schubert lived only for 31 years but he sure left a huge musical legacy, including 600 songs. The San Antonio Cathedral concert will mark the composers 225 birthday in a …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Austrian composer, Franz Schubert died young, at the age of 31, but his music lives on to this day, including his many beautiful songs, that vocalists and audiences have cherished for nearly two centuries. And San Antonians will have the opportunity to hear some of them this coming Sunday – as well as Schubert’s chamber music …
As promised last week, we are publishing today Part 2 of the Ekphrastic Poetry Contest organized in honor of National Poetry Month. The poems included here were inspired by a sculpture on the grounds of the McNay Art Museum, a striking piece of art made out of shoes. Yes, you read that correctly, though you may not spot the actual …
