San Antonio Mastersingers
and San Antonio Philharmonic
February 23rd & 24th, 2024, 7:30pm
First Baptist Church San Antonio
515 McCullough Ave, San Antonio, TX 78215
From the San Antonio Philharmonic:
This program explores art and poetry through music with conductor Ludwig Carrasco, who was recently appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. Texas State University’s Michael Ippolito’s Nocturne was inspired by Joan Miro’s 1940 painting of the same name. Ippolito studied composition with the next composer, John Corigliano, at The Juilliard School. Corigliano’s Fern Hill, featuring UTSA’s Crystal Jarrell Johnson and the San Antonio Mastersingers, reflects on the eponymous poem by Dylan Thomas. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition famously takes the listener on a sensory tour of ten paintings through an art exhibition.
May 10th & 11th, 2024, 7:30pm
First Baptist Church San Antonio
515 McCullough Ave, San Antonio, TX 78215
From the San Antonio Philharmonic:
Led by Canadian conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni, this program centers around celebrated Romantic composers and friends Brahms and Dvorák. Following Brahms’ powerful and emotional Tragic Overture, the esteemed San Antonio Mastersingers will be featured in the composer’s settings of poetry by Schiller and Hölderlin. Cellist Sterling Elliott, 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition, enthralls with Dvorák’s Cello Concerto, one of the greatest cello concertos of all time.