For a lot of urbanites, spring rustles up emotions of FOMO about all of the locations we overlook to go to between all of the work, college, and foodie occasions. Agarita, San Antonio’s eclectic chamber ensemble, is ensuring calendars are crammed with a wealth of free programming from April 13-27.
The chamber group is working exhausting on seven performances throughout that interval, beginning with Casa de España on the UTSA Recital Corridor. This recital, together with some tango works, will make clear Spanish and South American musical traditions. The repertoire consists of works by Astor Piazzolla, Andrea Casarrubios, and Laura Vega.
Subsequent, on April 17, the ensemble welcomes visitors to its house house, the Agarita Loft. This all-purposes house base consists of practices areas, a live performance house, an artwork gallery, and work house. (Even artists must ship emails typically.)
The night’s works are unified as Songs of Love, and span each the artwork and common efficiency spheres. Agarita founder Daniel Anastasio will accompany Chicago-based soprano Kristina Bachrach, performing Duparc and Robert Schumann on the artwork aspect, and George Gershwin and Cole Porter on the musical theater aspect.
A brief Humble Corridor sequence of outside Sunday exhibits brings the group on tour via varied San Antonio districts. (Pop quiz: Have you learnt yours?) Visiting Districts 1 and 5 on April 14 are Aimee Lopez on violin and Jessica Petrasek on flute. Then simply Lopez will proceed on to Districts 6 and seven on April 20. For these exhibits, audiences needn’t concern themselves with fancy garments and live performance halls, as a substitute having fun with the music on picnic blankets or no matter else they convey to take a seat on.
The final efficiency this month, on April 27, brings award-winning Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia to the Carver Neighborhood Cultural Heart. Along with his musical collaboration with Agarita, Cañón-Valencia approaches artwork as a painter and photographer. One in all his work can be on public sale on the efficiency to learn the chamber group.
These performances stay free because of sponsors like H-E-B, the Metropolis of San Antonio, Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts, and the King William Affiliation, in addition to neighborhood advantages just like the portray public sale.
For many who prefer to plan forward, the subsequent present scheduled after April is June 18, in collaboration with the Witte Museum. See the total schedule at agarita.org. Though the Santiago Cañón-Valencia live performance can be free, viewers members might want to snag tickets on-line beginning April 14.
