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This has to be one of San Antonio’s most distinctive holiday events. It’s one where people come from far and wide to blow their horn. Literally. And you can hear the difference from the very first notes.
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“I think most of us who play the tuba enjoy what we do and are perfectly happy playing a supportive role most of the time.”
Meet Ray Grim, with the Tubameisters. Once a year, Tuba and Euphonium players converge and take over the stage.
“It’s become a community event. We actually have people come in from out of town to attend the concert.”
It’s a combination of a fascinating setting and a unique concert. That fascinating setting is called Villa Finale.
“Villa Finale is the only National Historic Trust Site in Texas.”
Meet Villa Finale’s Sylvia Gonzalez.
“It’s located in the King William National Historic District, and was the last home of Walter Nold Mathis, who is credited with being the catalyst for revitalization of the King William Historic neighborhood.”
You’ve got a really interesting concert coming along on Thursday; tell us about that.
Originally published on Wed December 17, 2014 2:14 pm
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Boston's Handel and Haydn Society is one of the oldest continuously running performing arts organizations in the country. To celebrate its bicentennial this season, the group made a new recording of a holiday perennial, Handel's Messiah, which also happens to be one of the first works it staged nearly 200 years ago. Still, the Handel and Haydn Society is very different from what it was when it started.
A local symphony has set a holiday-themed event for this weekend. They’re Seguin's Mid Texas Symphony.
“This is our thirty-seventh season.”
Artistic Director David Mairs.
“And we play half of our concerts in Jackson Auditorium at Texas Lutheran Auditorium in Seguin, and the other half in the Performing Arts Center at Canyon High School in New Braunfels.”
Now, you’ve got a concert coming up on Sunday, is that right?
Originally published on Thu December 11, 2014 1:26 pm
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Famed soprano Renee Fleming has performed numerous times at the Metropolitan Opera, she sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl and she’s won several Grammy awards for her classical recordings. But until this year, Fleming had not made a holiday album.
Now she’s released “Christmas in New York,” where she collaborates with musicians including Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti and Rufus Wainwright.
More musical holiday cheer is coming your way, and it’s coming by way of the San Antonio Chamber Choir.
“The San Antonio Chamber Choir is a superb group of singers that is joined together by their love and passion for music.”
Rick Bjella knows; he’s their Music Director. This weekend, they have a pair of holiday-themed events.
“On Saturday, Dec. 13, we have a performance at the chapel at Oblate School of Theology, and on Sunday, Dec. 14, our premiere performance at the Alvarez Studio Theater at the Tobin Center.”
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