SOLI Dance Party

SOLI Chamber Ensemble performs tomorrow night at Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center. The unconventional program is called SOLI Dance Party and includes works by DBR, Piazzolla, Jimi Hendrix, and John Mackey.
Here is last night's performance of Airbag by Radiohead arranged by Christopher O'Riley and DJ Marcus Rubio:

Giving Thanks Key

This Thanksgiving I want to give thanks for the people with whom I make MUSIC. There are many of them: INSPIRED composers that create, MUSICIANS that realize a composer's dream, people who 'ORCHESTRATE' the means by which we make the music, to the receivers of the music -- the AUDIENCE.

This circle is a GIFT. We share something so beautiful, fulfilling, so RECHARGING. We connect in shared desire to reach out, to COMMUNICATE the soul of the music that touches us so deeply.

The music and people with whom I play have made me WHO I AM today.

I love them all. I owe them all. Thank you for YOU -- all of you!

Stephanie Key
Artistic Director & Founder, SOLI
Assistant Principal Clarinetist, San Antonio Symphony

Soley SOLI: Webisode 4

SOLI Chamber Ensemble presents works by John Williams, Kevin Puts, Diego Vega and Robert Xavier Rodriguez next week at Gallery Nord and Trinity University. TPR will feature interviews and music with SOLI, continuing today with this webisode: John Clare speaks with composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez about Musica por un tiempo.


Stay tuned for more interviews, music and be sure to listen to Classical Spotlight, Thursday afternoons at 2pm for more of the music scene in and around San Antonio!

Soley SOLI: Webisode 1

SOLI Chamber Ensemble presents works by John Williams, Kevin Puts, Diego Vega and Robert Xavier Rodriguez next week at Gallery Nord and Trinity University. TPR will feature interviews and music with SOLI, starting today with this webisode of Rodriguez.


Stay tuned for more interviews, music and be sure to listen to Classical Spotlight, Thursday afternoons at 2pm for more of the music scene in and around San Antonio!

Classical Spotlight: Voices

We touch base with lots of voices in the community on today's Classical Spotlight!

First we hear from Stephanie Key and Ertan Torgul from Soli, about a concert tonight at Blue Star Art Center's Main Gallery at 7:30pm.

Then Karem Sezen, conductor with the Vienna Boys Choir talks about their tour and performing at Laurie Auditorium Friday night at 7:30pm.

The Tuesday Music Club presents Opera to Broadway with Alissa Anderson, mezzo soprano; Marianne Cope, soprano; and Christopher DeVage, baritone. The concert is November 18th at Laurel Heights United Methodist Church, 2:00 pm.

Tuesday night at Bjorn’s a cd release party is scheduled for Voci di Sorelle from 7 to 8:30pm. Their second cd is called Magnificat, Early Christmas Music.

Also, violinist Craig Sorgi plays a recital Tuesday night at 7:30 in Ruth Taylor Recital Hall on the Trinity University campus. More info at 999-8406.

Classical Spotlight: Tempting Tempest

This week we have living composers, conductor candidates and piano recitals besides a visiting string quartet and YOSA!
Kimball Gallagher plays a recital tonight at 7pm at Alamo Heights Methodist Church. On the program is Liszt, Chopin and Villa-Lobos. It's free and open to the public.
Tomorrow and Saturday the San Antonio Symphony performs Copland’s Appalachian Spring; Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the "Pastorale". Violinist and conductor Scott Yoo is featured each evening at the Majestic Theater, the concerts are at 8pm and a pre-concert talk starts at 7pm. These concerts are in honor of KPAC's 25th Anniversary and will feature introductory remarks by Texas Public Radio personalities Randy Anderson and John Clare.
Sunday afternoon at 3pm, the Prazak Quartet returns to San Antonio with the Chamber Music Society at Temple Beth El. You can find out more about this San Antonio Chamber Music Society concert on our website, and click on Classical Spotlight.
Also Sunday afternoon at 3pm is pianist Brian Holland, who will present a recital of Ragtime music at Christ Episcopal Church.
YOSA, the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio take the stage Sunday afternoon at 4pm with The Good, the Bad, and the Huapango at Laurie Auditorium. Harpist Rachel Ferris and conductor Marlon Chen collaborate in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, and have Copland's ballet Billy the Kid as well as Moncayo's Huapango on the program. There’s a podcast about Copland here.
Soli begins their 14th season this next week. The program features Joan Tower, Elliott Carter and Paul Moravec on Wednesday November 12th at Trinity University’s Ruth Taylor Recital Hall and Thursday November 13th at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, both at 7:30pm with pre-concert talks at 7:00.