Q & A with DANIEL ANASTASIO- Agarita Chamber Players How do you go about deciding on the season’s programs, and, specifically, for the 2025-26 season? The process of deciding the season’s programs is multi-step. First, the four members of AGARITA share ideas about artists we feel would be exciting to collaborate with, narrowing it down to those that would also …
NEWS ROUNDUP, August 15, 2025 Let’s start with “Together for Texas,” a benefit concert for the Hill Country Flood Relief. Presented by several arts organizations, including the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, the Kerrville Folk Festival and Arcadia Live Theater, the concert will feature Lyle Lovett, Gabriel“Fluffy” Iglesias, Los Lonely Boys, Reckless Kelly, John Bauman, Bri Bagwell, Dale Watson …
NEWS ROUNDUP. Aug. 8, 2025 It’s summer time and the arts front is not as lively as usual. Let’s start with music. While the other music ensembles go on vacation, for the OLMOS Ensemble summer is the active season.Four concerts are scheduled: Baroque Sonatas (Aug. 10); American Wind Quintets (Aug. 17);A Trio of Trios (Aug. 24) and Anton Nel Returns …
NEWS ROUNDUP. Aug. 8, 2025 It’s summer time and the arts front is not as lively as usual. Let’s start with music. While the other music ensembles go on vacation, for the OLMOS Ensemble summer is the active season.Four concerts are scheduled: Baroque Sonatas (Aug. 10); American Wind Quintets (Aug. 17);A Trio of Trios (Aug. 24) and Anton Nel Returns …
By Jasmina Wellinghoff, editor of Arts Alive San Antonio How did you and your former husband decide to leave Russia and come to the U.S.?We came to the U.S. through an exchange program, AIESEC, in 1989. The Ministry of Culture (in Russia) called my ex-husband (Valery Grokhovski) and asked if he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity. Did that …
The San Antonio Philharmonic is back in action and has just performed a special concert at the Scottish Rite Hall to celebrate the conferral of the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays, upon former San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros by the government of Japan. The evening featured performances highlighting the friendship between Japan and the United States, with …
Reviewed By Steven G. Kellman Dedicated “To all the women who survive,” The Brittle Age portrays survival as an ambiguous proposition. It traces the reverberations from horrific violence in Italy’s mountainous Abruzzo region that was committed against three young women thirty years ago. The novel is narrated by a physiotherapist named Lucia who was nineteen years old at the time …
Let’s start with theater.At the San Pedro Playhouse, you can see the new version of “Hairspray,” the vibrant and energetic musical set in the 1960s, that follows Tracy Turnblad, a plucky teenager with big dreams and even bigger hair. Despite her plus-sized figure, she wins a spot on a popular local TV program, becoming an overnight sensation. The musical deals …
“Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists” by Susan Gubar Reviewed by Steven G. Kellman Some artists – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Emily BrontĂ«, James Dean, Jimi Hendrix, Sylvia Plath, Arthur Rimbaud – flash across the firmament before abruptly flaming out. No less spectacular are those who manage to be productive into their eighties or nineties. Beyond tips about diet, exercise, …
Summer is time for festivals, and the The 29th Cactus Pear Music Festival is about to start, under the name 29 and Counting. “The name is a nod to our longevity and to the milestone just ahead – but also to the heartbeat of camber music itself… “Sustained by years of unforgettable performances, meaningful connections and a community that keeps …
