Barry Brake
Host, Classical ConnectionsBarry Brake is a composer, jazz and classical pianist who has been a part of San Antonio's music scene for decades. You can find his musings and musical exploits online here: http://barrybrake.com/
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“People are still writing [classical] music today, and people are performing music by living composers." This Sunday, you'll have the opportunity to hear some right before you in the home of composer Peter Petroff, in Fair Oaks Ranch. -
Project Band will be putting on a showcase of improvised dancing along with live musicians from the ensemble Viatorum this Sunday in San Antonio. -
Jeffrey Kahane, artistic director of the new orchestra Harmonium of Texas, stopped by the KPAC studios to preview their concerts this fall, including an appearance by Yo-Yo Ma. Kahane also treated us to a little piano, which you can hear at the link. -
The concert on Sept. 4 includes a piece that Zachary Ridgway says brings out the "wild side" of Bach. Hear his in-studio performance at the link. -
Members of the Junior Tuesday Musical Club paid a visit to us here at TPR recently, and it stretched out into a nearly-an-hour session, with some stellar performances the students have been working on. Hear their music at the link. -
Guitarist Andrew Blanch and mezzo-soprano Maria Eugenia Nieva are partners both on and off the stage. They dropped by our KPAC 88.3 FM studio to perform live, ahead of their duo concert this Saturday night at 7:00 at Travis Park UMC. -
The long-running San Antonio chamber group, Olmos Ensemble, releases a new album, 'Made in Germany,' this week. -
A WWII-era story with Viennese threads and the world of Japanese Noh performance will take the stage at the Tobin Center's Carlos Alvarez Theater on Friday and Saturday. Preview the unique music at the link, as heard on KPAC 88.3 FM's Classical Connections. -
Hornist Jeff Garza opens the Olmos Ensemble's summer concert series on Sunday afternoon at 3:00, at First Unitarian Universalist Church. The program is free and open to the public. Hear a preview at the link! -
The new album from Consonari is a bewitching collection of nocturnes and tales, often feeling like magic itself being conjured out of the night sky. Hear excerpts, and Barry Brake's interview with the duo, at the link.
