La Citadelle By Suzanne Morris (Its gray walls, now patched with orange lichen, are as thick as 16 feet and as high as 147 feet. More than 160 cannons point threateningly from its openings and ledges…*) As our nation absorbs the shock ofthe latest school shooting In Uvalde, Texas, legislators have conceded thatany new laws to ensure the safety of …
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 …
Clarinetist, Former SAS MEMBER and Musician with the MOSAS PERFORMANCE FUND By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor How long have you been with the now defunct San Antonio Symphony?Twenty-two years, since 2000. The Symphony has had a number of serious crises before and after 2000, why was the crisis of 2022 the one that led to the permanent closing of SAS?I don’t …
ElementaryBy Chivas Sandage (for Angeli Gomez) Hearing the supersonic crackof each bullet rip through the building,she rescued her two boysafter she didn’t see a single officer insideafter she ran to her sons’ classroomsafter she sprinted to the schoolafter the police chased herafter she climbed a chain link fenceafter she started runningafter she convinced officers to uncuff her after she was …
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 …
Uvalde: Not What Our Forefathers Intended By Lita Marie Bonciolini Unfathomable,inconceivable.unimaginable. Words that completely fail to conveythe horrific actions of a twisted personagainst innocents. No ordinary citizen stands a chance againsta weapon that shoots 60 rounds per minute,A security guard, armed with a revolver,could not have prevailed.How many had already died before the police arrived?How many more while they loiteredin hallways, …
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 …
Aftermath, Uvalde By Sarah Colby The first thing she sees when she stumblesthrough the back door is the refrigerator,the one everyone in the family pitched in to buywhen they learned she was expecting her first baby.Eleven years later it’s still running, plastered with pictures—cousins, friends, Nana and Popi’s 50th anniversary, tubing the Nuecesfor spring break—and a red and pink construction …
