Hays Street Bridge, San Antonio, 2006
re: culture, ideas & the built environment
Mike Greenberg / San Antonio
NEW: Video
"memento"
of my play, "Three Views
of a Waterfall," in the
Bastrop
Opera House production. The planned video
shoot of the Oct. 29 performance had to be
scrubbed when one of the leads fell ill and was
unable to appear. I assembled the "memento" from
audio and video clips I recorded during the
production process. The clips were intended only
for my reference, not for public consumption,
and I apologize for the technical quality. Soon
I'll post audio of the last 28 minutes of one
performance, to better represent the excellence
of the cast. Dec.
4, 2011
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McNay
Art Museum: George Nelson -- Deeply considered
design for the (two-decade) American Century June 17, 2011 Coconut chairs and ottoman, 1956. Photo: Vitra Design Museum Archive |
SA Symphony's new music director: Sebastian Lang-Lessing seeks a sound,
connects with local tradition Feb. 22, 2010
News flash: How I became a playwright Feb. 17, 2010
Genealogy of a lie: If facts don't fit prejudice, Obama-haters invent Aug. 16, 2009
Teach 'strengths and weaknesses' of evolution? See that bet and raise it June 21, 2008
Those useless humanities Jan. 8, 2008
SA Symphony: Honoring Jacques Barzun with Berlioz May 17, 2012
Olmos Ensemble: A rhapsody for the clarinetist May 9, 2011
San Antonio Symphony, Barry Douglas: Three (plus three) pieces in old style May 5, 2012
San Antonio Symphony: Venturing into the baroque April 14, 2012
Vienna Piano Trio: A walk in the moonlight, with a lighter step April 3, 2012
San Antonio Symphony, Masur, Zhou: Homecoming March 24, 2012
Camerata San Antonio: Invitation to the dance March 20, 2012
Red Priest: An authentically freewheeling blast March 6, 2012
SA Symphony, SLL, Vadim Gluzman: Fire and water March 3, 2012
Beethoven Festival: Swann, Dowling: The last word, and some along the way Feb. 21, 2012
Brent Watkins, pianist: Big sound, big risks, big payoffs Feb. 19, 2012
Beethoven Festival/San Antonio Symphony: We're all brothers, till the music stops Feb. 11, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Ryo Yanagitani, Audrey Andrist: Voluptuary and empath Feb. 9, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Pacifica Quartet, Olmos Ensemble: Concerts rarefied and earthy Jan. 31, 2012
Beethoven Festival/San Antonio Symphony: In an old friend, unexpected charms Jan. 28, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Christopher Guzman: A Beethovenian Jan. 27, 2012
Beethoven Festival/SOLI Chamber Ensemble: Collaborations across two centuries Jan. 24, 2012
Beethoven Festival/SA Symphony: Second, Fourth and ta-ta-ta-DAH Jan. 21, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Spencer Myer: Scenes from near the peak, and the approach Jan. 20, 2012
Beethoven Festival/SA Symphony: You've heard 'Eroica' before? Nope Jan. 14, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Naoko Takao: How much freedom is too much? Jan. 13, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Jeffrey Swann, Camerata: Concerts conversing with one another Jan. 10, 2012
Morgenstern Trio: A young troupe leaps to the top Nov. 23, 2011
SA Symphony, Kolja Blacher: Appeals to the heart, the gut and the mind Nov. 19, 2011
SA Symphony, Sebastian Lang-Lessing: From Brahms, two views of the end Nov. 13, 2011
YOSA Philharmonic, Edgar Meyer: The bass reaches into the brilliant heights Nov. 10, 2011
Olmos Ensemble: A Glazunov Idyll and a magnum of wit Nov. 8, 2011
Austin Lyric Opera: A "Magic Flute" that plays up love and laughs Nov. 8, 2011
SA Symphony, SL-L, Bernd Glemser: Music of, and from, the shadows Oct. 30, 2011
SA Symphony, SL-L, Alexander Gavrylyuk: Opulence from '1001 Nights' and 88 keys Oct. 17, 2011
Jason Vieaux: A master colorist on the guitar Oct. 14, 2011
SA Opera: In 'R&J,' true love and a real-deal soprano Oct. 3, 2011
Olmos Ensemble: After Victorian clutter, Modern air and light Sept. 22, 2011
Camerata San Antonio: New venue, no traffic noise, but what about that groan? Sept. 13, 2011
Cactus Pear Music Festival: The cat's meow, and other delights July 19, 2011
Cactus Pear Music Festival: Revelations from Prague, and points east July 11, 2011
SA Symphony, Lang-Lessing, Gluzman: Modest Beethoven, immodest Strauss June 4, 2011
Camerata San Antonio: Cello quintets, forwards and backwards May 31, 2011
SA Chamber Choir: Unifying light on divided divinities May 25, 2011
SA Symphony, Alban Gerhardt: Pitching in Lang-Lessing's wheelhouse May 21, 2011
SA Symphony: In Tchaikovsky Sixth, longing for life in presentiment of death May 9, 2011
SA Symphony, Camerata: Tchaikovsky, from communal to personal May 2, 2011
Austin Lyric Opera: A memorable 'Flight,' grounded in life April 12, 2011
SA Symphony, Lang-Lessing, Shterenberg: The oval track and the open road April 9, 2011
Lafayette String Quartet: A compelling conversation, set in motion by Elliott Carter April 6, 2011
SA Symphony, McDuffie: Glass violin concerto nods to the baroque, and contradicts it April 2, 2011
Augusta Read Thomas: Music of rigor, balance and feeling April 1, 2011
Olmos Ensemble: More zest, less filling March 25, 2011
SA Symphony, Dmitry Sitkovetsky: Charms of youth, ruminations of age March 19, 2011
Ysaÿe Quartet: From Fauré, a quartet worthy of limelight March 8, 2011
Camerata San Antonio: A sun and two rediscovered planets Feb. 22, 2011
Olmos Ensemble: Love leads, but laughter trumps Feb. 17, 2011
SA Symphony, Ricardo Cobo: Lang-Lessing's hallmark? Focus Feb. 12, 2011
SA Opera: A 'Figaro' long on beauty, short on bite Feb. 5, 2011
Cypress String Quartet with Amit Peled: Three great near-death experiences Jan. 31, 2011
SA Symphony, Lang-Lessing, Zilberstein: The dark side of 'Power to the people' Jan. 29, 2011
SOLI Chamber Ensemble: East-West conversation goes deep Jan. 27, 2011
Lilya Zilberstein, Israeli Chamber Project: Dangerous Beethoven, and more Jan, 24, 2011
SA Symphony, Lang Lang, Lang-Lessing: An enfant terrible matures nicely Jan. 14, 2011
SA Symphony, Sebastian Lang-Lessing: Romantic start to a new marriage Jan. 9, 2011
Archive: Music reviews from previous years
Placemaking at its
best: Latest San Antonio River Improvements transform
wasteland into civic treasure June 21, 2009Correcting the record on lessons from Santa Barbara: Density is good April 2, 2009
McNay
Art Museum's Stieren Center for Exhibitions: Jean Paul
Viguier's pure Modernist addition is all about the light
June 13, 20081221 Broadway Lofts: Making an introvert gregarious
June 2, 2008
Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts:
Right space, wrong place April 28, 2008
Configured for concerts, Austin's new Dell Hall still sounds like an opera house May 24, 2008
Notes from the Congress for the New Urbanism's conference in Austin April 18, 2008
CNU XVI: New Urbanist guru thrashes Austin six ways from Sunday April 10, 2008
Transportation Choices Forum: Some gaps remain in our "Smart Growth" smarts (March 30, 2008)
Jubilee Outreach/Wigodsky & Assoc.: Designing within the system
Plus: Big Grass Bamboo: Cinderella story (March 2, 2008)
What to expect in performing arts center? The picture is cloudy (Feb. 16, 2008)
Windcrest Village: Duany brings New Urbanism to Old Sprawl (Jan. 30, 2008)
Ten
views of the Tower of the Americas
Shadow
plays 
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