Review: San Antonio Symphony
Among the many ways the accelerating final passage of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony can be described, Friday night (Feb. 10) it was like a blast-off into eternal space, rushing “beyond the canopy of...
View ArticleReview: Symphony finds its sea legs
Nothing bridges the sea to human emotions better than music. The San Antonio Symphony emphatically connected the two Friday night (March 2), in a program of four works. Three of the works allude to the...
View ArticleOvernight: SOLI Chamber Ensemble
THE CONCERT: SOLI Chamber Ensemble at Trinity University’s Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. “Flow” will be repeated at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center. AUDIENCE: 80 FIRST TAKE: All...
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San Antonio violinist Nancy Zhou is back, better and wiser than ever. A former Keystone School student and now a Harvard University freshman, Zhou, 19, has softened and warmed her violin’s glassy tone...
View ArticleReview: San Antonio Pops
THE CONCERT: The San Antonio Symphony Pops under the direction of Troy Peters and featuring singer Patsy Torres, Mariachi Campanas de América and the Guadalupe Dance Company. “Fiesta Pops” will repeat...
View ArticleReview: San Antonio Symphony
THE CONCERT: The San Antonio Symphony under the direction of guest conductor/pianist Barry Douglas. “Mozart in Old Style” repeats at 8 tonight p.m. Saturday at the Majestic Theatre downtown. AUDIENCE:...
View ArticleReview: SOLI ensemble closes season
The Concert: SOLI Chamber at Trinity University’s Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. “Freedom” repeats at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the McNay Art Museum’s Leeper Auditorium. A pre-concert presentation begins about...
View ArticleSan Antonio Symphony plays Berlioz, Schumann
One big, dramatic moment followed another in Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique in the San Antonio Symphony’s Friday night concert, the second in the 2012-13 season and the first conducted by Music...
View ArticleReview: A Symphony Pops holiday for children
Friday night’s Holiday Pops concert by the San Antonio Symphony was largely a tribute to children.
View ArticleOvernight: SOLI Chamber Ensemble
THE CONCERT: SOLI Chamber Ensemble with baritone Timothy Jones and flutist Angela Jones-Reus at Trinity University’s Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. “Power of the Story” repeats at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at...
View ArticleReview: San Antonio Symphony
By David Hendricks Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 is a long, scenic row over philosophical deep waters. Orchestras always make it across the 100-minute score, but the goal is to intertwine the gigantic...
View ArticleReview: San Antonio Symphony enchants with Disney in Concert Pops
No one can sell nostalgia like Disney, probably because no one has the material to compare. And the San Antonio Symphony, accompanied by four Broadway-caliber singers, sold memories to the hilt to more...
View ArticleSymphony delves into chamber repertory
It is a tribute to the richness of chamber music repertory when a masterpiece composed for four instruments can be converted to a magical symphony performed by a large orchestra.
View ArticleSan Antonio Symphony sparkles in holiday program
All of the Christmas parties held in town, few can match the festivity when about 2,000 people gather to be entertained by some 200 talented performers. Yet it happens every year when the San Antonio...
View ArticleReview: San Antonio Symphony
Composer Antonín Dvorák wanted to “stir the world” with his Seventh Symphony. Nearly 130 years later, it certainly stirred the Majestic Theatre audience of about 1,600 people attending the third...
View ArticleOpera Piccola reaches new heights
Two separate short-opera tales of jealousy, revenge and loving reconciliations, set more than three centuries apart, showed how romance never changes, in performances Saturday night staged by Opera...
View ArticleS.A. tells stories musically in concert
Friday night (Feb. 21) became storytime at the San Antonio Symphony’s classical subscription concert at the Majestic Theatre. About 1,300 people gathered around to hear the stories, first from Maurice...
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