By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor While Musical Bridges Around the World is primarily known as a music organization that brings international musicians to San Antonio, it also has an art gallery that has attracted attention in its own right. Launched in 2013 with an exhibit of artist Rex Hausmann’s work, it has been going strong ever since, though the pandemic imposed …
The symphony may be gone but San Antonio is blessed with a number of classical music nonprofits that keep music alive throughout the year and even in the summer months. One organization that has contributed a great deal to the music scene here is Musical Bridges Around the World (MBAW), which is celebrating its 25th anniversary and announcing its upcoming …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Though we haven’t been hearing much from the Classic Theater lately, the staff and the new producing Artistic Director, J. Robert “Jimmy” Moore, have been busy. Since the Classic vacated its former premises in the Woodlawn Theater Building when the pandemic discouraged gatherings in tight spaces, the first thing on the agenda was to find a …
Festivals, festivals, everywhere! Right now, the San Antonio Film Festival is in full swing at the Radius Center, downtown. And it’s a pretty big thing! Its mission statement says, in part, that the fest’s goal is “to serve as an accessible and inclusive platform for artists in the category of cinema and provide cinematic culture to a diverse audience. The …
The two music festivals we told you about in the last two NEWS ROUNDUPs are resuming this weekend. The Mozart Festival will present its second concert on Sunday, featuring the Artisan Quartet performing works by Mozart, Hugo Wolf, and Tchaikovsky. When we asked festival founder and conductor, Terence Frazor, about the inclusion of Tchaikovsky in a festival devoted to Mozart’s …
By JANIS TURK, Contributing Writer EXPERIENCE THE ORIGINAL IMMERSIVE VAN GOGH EXHIBITION IN SAN ANTONIO Last week, beaten down by the relentless afternoon summer heat, I simply stepped into a cool starry night. Yes, I quite literally, entered Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” painting as part of the origonal Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition, a multi-media art event on view …
Summer is clearly the favorite season for festivals. Following the conclusion of the Cactus Pear Music Festival, here comes another classical music fest, The Mozart Festival Texas, that will present three concerts on three consecutive Sundays. It opens this Sunday at the Bennack Concert Hall on the campus of the University of the Incarnate Word. Created by conductor and music …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy and a musical genius. He started composing at the age of seven and wrote several “baby concertos” before he was nine. But at 19, he wrote his 9th piano concerto. “That one is amazing, a masterpiece,” said Terrence Frazor, a University of the Incarnate Word professor and the founder …
Things are looking up for the San Antonio thespian community and all of us theater fans! The immediate big news is that the Woodlawn Theater Company will be soon leaving its premises at the historic Woodlawn Theater in the Deco District to relocate a few miles north to the Wonderland of the Americas Mall where it will take over the …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The Public Theater of San Antonio has weathered some tough times recently due to COVID cases among cast and crew of “She Loves Me,” the show slated to run from roughly mid-June to mid-July. Sadly, the production ended up having just a few performances near the end of its expected run. But things are looking up. …
