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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, 2010
SA Symphony,
Sebastian
Lang-Lessing: Romantic start to a new marriage Jan. 9, 2011
Musical Bridges
Around the
World: Sailing the EastWest Passage Dec. 15, 2010
SOLI Chamber
Ensemble:
Small
bites, big flavors Dec.
9, 2010
Conspirare,
with
Patrice Pike: Christmas perfected, and then some Dec. 5, 2010
Imani Winds: A
whole
world of
music Nov. 16, 2010
SA Symphony,
Prieto,
Urioste: When worlds collide, sparks fly Nov. 13, 2010
Austin
Lyric
Opera: Conductor weaves a revelatory "La Traviata" Nov. 12, 2010
YOSA
Philharmonic,
Laredo, Robinson: Tales of love, with tragic coloring Nov. 8, 2010
SA Symphony,
Ryo
Yanagitani: The pianist as raconteur Nov. 6, 2010
Olmos Ensemble: A
glorious night for Strauss, sung and bowed Oct. 27, 2010
San Antonio
Symphony, Ken-David Masur: A young conductor blooms Oct. 23, 2010
Camerata San
Antonio: From German culture to global culture Oct. 18, 2010
Chamber Music
Society
of
Lincoln Center: Music for five, played winningly by six
Oct. 12, 2010
SA Symphony:
Meticulous craftsman meets meticulous craftsman Oct. 9, 2010
SA Symphony:
Lang-Lessing opens tenure with masterful Mahler
First Oct. 3, 2010
Santiago
Rodriguez: A
trenchant 'Carnaval,' both nuts and not Sept. 25, 2010
SA Opera: The
murderous clown and the suicidal nun Sept. 18, 2010
Cactus Pear Music
Festival:
Speed's the thing in new works by Kramer, Sorgi July 18, 2010
Austin Lyric
Opera:
The opera
that mistook a case study for a drama July 13, 2010
SA Opera: A
lavishly cast
"Rigoletto" June
19, 2010
SA Symphony:
On
Scalia,
Souter and Salerno-Sonnenberg June
6, 2010
SA Symphony:
Dawn
Upshaw in
a performance to cherish May 23, 2010
SOLI Chamber
Ensemble:
Revisiting the work of a master craftsman March 18, 2010
Olmos Ensemble
with
Christopher Guzman: Once a Wunderkind, now an artist
May 13, 2010
SA Symphony:
Piazzolla's
"Seasons," fattened up but with pulse, soul and eros
intact May 1, 2010
Lee Trio: From
Golden Gate, a musical bridge between past and present
April 29, 2010
Austin Lyric
Opera
'Hansel and Gretel': Whose house is this? Rhymes with
'rich' April 28,
2010
Camerata San
Antonio: The Schoenberg piece that people like April 14, 2010
SA Symphony,
conductor
Andrew Grams: And the beat goes where? April 4, 2010
SA Symphony
with
Kuerti, Kuster: A luminous intro to Webern, for the wary
March 27, 2010
Olmos Ensemble:
When
one plus one equals one March
18, 2010
Jupiter
String
Quartet: From civilization to Hell, and back again March 16, 2010
San Antonio
Symphony: Fearless Prokofiev, jolly Shostakovich March 13, 2010
SOLI Chamber
Enemble:
An example of recycling at its best March 11, 2010
Camerata San
Antonio: From England between the wars March 8, 2010
UTSA
Lyric
Theatre: Heuser's 'Root Vegetables' -- 24-carrot fun March 7, 2010
SA Symphony,
pianist Benedetto Lupo: In Chopin concerto, a human voice
Feb. 27, 2010
Atos Trio:
Deep
communication in an intriguing program Feb. 16, 2010
SA Symphony:
High
craft on the podium, poetry on the guitar Feb. 14, 2010
Pianist Haochen
Zhang:
Flying fingers, connected to a probing mind Feb. 13, 2010
Camerata San
Antonio: Bohemian music, international standard Feb. 9, 2010
Austin Lyric
Opera:
Madcap
fun, musical charm in Chabrier's "The Star" Feb. 2,
2010
SA Symphony,
pianist Stewart Goodyear: Quicksilver agility, golden
touch in Grieg Jan.
30, 2010
Olmos Ensemble
with
Linda Poetschke: Gerswhin at the center Jan. 21, 2010
SA Symphony
with
Nancy Zhou:
Promising début in the Sibelius concerto Jan. 16, 2010
Voci di
Sorelle: An
uneven repast, but the sorbet sparkled Dec. 8, 2009
SA Symphony: A
triumphant
return and a first-class début Nov. 21, 2009
Austin Lyric
Opera: In
this 'Bohème,' the stage is all the world Nov. 13, 2009
Shanghai
Quartet: Standing on whole tradition to reach beyond it
Nov. 11, 2009
Olmos Ensemble: A
chemistry
lesson, in French Nov.
5, 2009
Nemanja
Ostojic: In
his guitar, the big box of Crayolas Nov. 3, 2009
Camerata San
Antonio: From
Russia, with goulash Oct. 28,
2009
Soprano Linda
Poetschke:
In 25th anniversary recital, the naked truth Oct. 19,
2009
SA Symphony:
Vigor
on the page , and on the podium Oct. 17, 2009
SA Symphony: A
violinist
true to the many ways of Prokofiev Oct. 10, 2009
Organist Paul
Jacobs:
A gifted orchestrator, fleet of foot and hand Oct. 8, 2009
Lark Chamber
Artists: A
string quartet with a bang-up fifth Oct. 6, 2009
SA Symphony:
From
Weilerstein, extraordinary depth and intensity Sept. 26, 2009
Olmos Ensemble:
Music
of two worlds, off-kilter and on Sept.
24, 2009
San
Antonio
Opera:
A 'Butterfly' with ideas, some of them brilliant Sept. 12, 2009
Cactus Pear
Music
Festival: Beethoven, Clarke, Elgar July 18, 2009
Cactus Pear
Music
Festival: A strangely beautiful Lorca setting July 13, 2009
Cactus Pear
Music
Festival: Listening to a conversation, having a 'Lark'
July 11, 2009
San Antonio
Opera,
'Il
Trovatore': If you've got it, flaunt it June 13, 2009
Round Top
Festival:
The wit was French; the wisdom, too June 9, 2009
SA Symphony,
Elmar
Oliveira: Mendelssohn with machismo May 30, 2009
SOLI, Timothy
Jones:
Music fit for a king, and a world, gone mad May 27, 2009
Olmos Ensemble: An
elegantly
crafted
new Lyric Quintet by Bill Ross May
22, 2009
SA Symphony,
Rossen
Milanov: Russia resists invaders; Brits hail one May 9, 2009
SA Symphony,
Lang-Lessing,
Torgul: Ecstasy, joy and sweet moxie May 2, 2009
Jon
Nakamatsu:
Built for speed, and sometimes more April 30, 2009
Albers Trio:
Three
ways of being Modern, with poise April
22, 2009
Austin
Lyric
Opera: Poulenc's 'Dialogues' speak compellingly April 20, 2009
Composers
Alliance: Blackbirds will sing April
8, 2009
SA Symphony,
Komatsu, Wright: A Dvorak Sixth in high style April 4, 2009
SA Symphony,
Chang,
Grams: Violinist gives old master new energy March 28, 2009
SA Symphony,
Judd,
Wolfram: Epic retold, with compelling authority March 21, 2009
SOLI Chamber
Ensemble:
Master thief does it again March
17, 2009
Olmos Ensemble,
Poetschke, Epperson: A grand night for singing March 11, 2009
"La
Curandera":
Comic
opera finds composer Rodriguez in top form March 4, 2009
SA Symphony:
Harrell serves
Elgar concerto at peak of ripeness Feb. 14, 2009
Sergio and Odair
Assad: New Brouwer sonata wears virtuosity lightly Feb. 10, 2009
SA Symphony:
Assad
concerto is the draw, conductor Vajda the marvel Feb. 7, 2009
SW Guitar
Festival:
Denis Azabagic, A sculptor in sound Feb. 7, 2009
SW Guitar Festival:
Dunne, Gast shine in new Balentine piece Feb. 5, 2009
Austin
Lyric
Opera, "Rigoletto": A radiant Gilda, but where's Dr. Phil?
Feb. 2,
2009
SA Symphony:
In
taut Shostakovich Tenth, the demons wore jackboots Jan. 24, 2009
Fretwork,
Clare
Wilkinson: Music of Purcell, antique and progressive Jan. 20, 2009
Camerata S.A.:
Violinist
Jiang contributes to a gutsy 'Ghost' Jan. 12, 2009
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