Watson Fine Arts Center 1801 Martin Luther King Dr

Migrations + Music x Globalism = SA Symphony at SPC

January 28, 2019

ST. PHILIP'S COLLEGE HOSTS SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY'Due south Gratuitous AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY Calendar month CONCERT FEB. 2

San Antonio Symphony and St. Philip'southward College take partnered to begin the metropolis's African-American History Month observances past inviting all to attend the concert with both complimentary admission and parking

All are welcome to attend San Antonio Symphony's family-friendly complimentary African-American History Month Concert at St. Philip's Higher on Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. in the higher'due south 600-seat Watson Fine Arts Center at 1801 Martin Luther King Drive (edifice and surrounding complimentary parking marked as "one" on the interactive campus map).

San Antonio Symphony and St. Philip'due south College have partnered to begin the urban center'due south African-American History Month observances by inviting all to nourish the concert with both complimentary admission and parking. The symphony'south Feb. 2 concert is 1 of three in the African-American Heritage Calendar month project with the college that includes two rapidly-fillingYoung Person'southward Concerts for grades 3-5 on February. 1 at 9:50 and 11:15 a.m. and the same functioning in the symphony'due southConcert(210) series on Feb. 2 at 7 p.one thousand., and all three are led by associate conductor Noam Aviel in her conducting debut at the higher in an African-American History Month partnership that dates to the college's 23-season San Antonio Symphony in Residence project (1988 to 2011). The bevy of public, private and dwelling schools that take reserved seating for the Feb. 1Young Person'south Concerts every bit of Jan. 24 includes Volition Rogers Academy, St. Anthony Catholic, Scobee, Southwest, Heritage, Spicewood, Park and Sarah Rex elementary schools.

The February. ii partnership issue marks the beginning time the symphony has been privileged to boot off the heritage month observance at the nation's only higher with federal Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Establishment designations, and with the college'due south selected theme ofmigrations and globalism, programming for the entire 2019 season project includes works past Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Antonín Leopold Dvořák.

The business concern and social consciousness reaches of England's Coleridge-Taylor were global and both concide with the tenure of Saint and St. Philip's College President Emeritus Artemisia Bowden at the 120-year-old college. In 1899, the yr after Bowden herself migrated west in a steam locomotive to San Antonio in 1898 to become corporate leader of an emerging sewing schoolhouse for the daughters of former slaves who themselves were migrating through Texas, Coleridge-Taylor first heard American spirituals sung by the legendary Fisk Jubilee singers on one of that HBCU's fundraising tours.

Coleridge-Taylor became interested in African-American folk song and began incorporating information technology into his compositions, to the dandy interest of such parties in the United States as an American president. But the composer's interest in America---and his appreciations for migration and globalism---were likely deeper. His medico father was a descendent of African-American slaves who escaped slavery to serve with the British in the Revolutionary War in southern slave states in return for passages to freedom and refuge in such countries as Mexico and Sierra Leone—yet some other migration of global scope.

On their way to the theater in preparation for an evening with the sounds of freedom as interpreted past Coleridge-Taylor, consequence guests volition notice a big imprint discreetly expressing thanks for being valued members of the community when the college earned its fair share of the presidential-level Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2018. This institutional thanks includes the symphony that has had an excellent fellow member or two serving on the kinesthesia at the higher over the years and performed as a team during the Eastside Tricentennial projection at the college in 2018 too.

With all upshot times, dates and appearances subject area to changes that will exist shared online, all are welcome to nourish the following 2019 observance events, and keep an eye out for a web folio for the observance in coming days:

• ***San Antonio Symphony Young Person'southward Concerts for grades iii-5 with Acquaintance Usher Noam Aviel | Feb. 1 | ix:50 and xi:15 a.thousand. performances | Watson Fine Arts Center | Free Admission
• ***San Antonio Symphony Concert(210) with Associate Usher Noam Aviel | February. 2 | 7 p.m. | Watson Fine Arts Middle | Free Admission and Parking
• ***Kimberly Hopkins Art Exhibition | Feb. 7 | 11 a.thousand. | Morgan Gallery | Watson Fine Arts Center | Free Admission and Parking
• SPC San Antonio Youth Air current Ensemble Concert | Feb. 10 | ii p.thousand. | Watson Fine Arts Center | Free Access and Parking
• ***A Walk on the River | Feb. 12 Screening and Discussion | ii p.m. | Turbon Student Heart | Rooms 203 and 204 | Free Access and Parking
• ***Truth & Reconciliation Oral History Project | Feb. 15-16 | 9 a.g.–five p.one thousand. | Turbon Student Center | Free Admission and Parking
• ++SPC Soul Food Gustation | February. 26 | 11:45 a.m. | Heritage Room | Campus Eye building | Paid consequence with Free Parking

*** =SPC Debut

++ =Paid Upshot

All events are open to the public, and parking is gratis for all events. For information, contact observance team pb Dr. Sharon Crockett-Ray at 210-486-2887.

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Source: https://epipd.alamo.edu/spc/news-events/news/2019/january/sa-symphony-concert/