San Antonio Symphony News

 
Review: San Antonio Symphony
San Antonio Express (blog)
Macelaru did not know he was coming to San Antonio this week until he was summoned Monday (May 21) to fill in for the originally scheduled guest conductor Alondra de la Parra of Mexico, who bowed out due to illness. San Antonio doesn't often see the ...

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Blastoff at Symphony Pops
San Antonio Express
THE CONCERT: The San Antonio Symphony Pops under the direction of guest conductor Michael Krajewski. “Star Wars and other Space Odysseys” will repeat today at 8 pm at Trinity University's Laurie Auditorium. FIRST TAKE: The starry realm is still ...


 
Barzun honored with concert of Berlioz faves
San Antonio Express
By David Hendricks Renowned writer Jacques Barzun addresses the audience at a San Antonio Symphony concert held in his honor Tuesday night, May 15, 2012. Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing stands to his left. Renowned writer Jacques Barzun, ...

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Review: San Antonio Symphony
San Antonio Express (blog)
By David Hendricks Douglas conducted the entire San Antonio Symphony concert. He also performed the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20, conducting from the keyboard. And during the first and third movements of the concerto, he played his own stormy cadenzas.

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Ken-David Masur will fill in for Long Yu at Masterworks concerts
U-T San Diego
Masur, the San Diego Symphony's assistant conductor who is stepping in for an “unavailable” Long Yu at this weekend's Masterworks concerts, didn't select the program, which also includes Mozart and the Chinese composer Qigang Chen.


 
What's Up: May 4
San Antonio Express
“Mozart in Old Style”: Pianist Barry Douglas performs and conducts the San Antonio Symphony's program, which also includes music by Rossini, Gorecki and Haydn. 8 pm Friday-Saturday. Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., 210-554-1010. $10-$63.

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KEN-DAVID MASUR WILL FILL IN FOR LONG YU AT MASTERWORKS CONCERTS
U-T San Diego
Masur, the San Diego Symphony's assistant conductor who is stepping in for an unavailable Long Yu at this weekend's Masterworks concerts, didn't select the program. But he's pleased with the inclusion of Tchaikovsky. “I feel that Tchaikovsky in many ...

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