Sunset Jazz at the Bushnell

Sunset Jazz at the Bushnell

A party to raise funds to bring the Geri Allen Quartet to the stage of Musical Bridges Around the World on February 19, 2012 The Bushnell Apartment Building 240 Bushnell Avenue San Antonio TX 78212 October 9th, 2011, 6pm Hosted by Brad Kayser and Gemma Kennedy, Chuck and Anne Parrish, James Sanders and Sherry and Ed Layman. Barbecue and beverages will be served. Parking available on the street or at nearby Landa Library. If we are so lucky to get rain, the jazz party will be held in the Ballroom of the Bushnell and everyone must dance! Limited available tickets. Please send your check made out to Musical Bridges Around the World –...

About the Performers (2011-2012)

The City of San Antonio boasts an array of Texas’s most diverse artistic sensibilities, religious beliefs, and ethnicities. Anya Grokhovski, our Artistic Director, scours the planet to find musicians whose exceptional talent communicates the uniting spirit of all of our sensibilities, across the expanses of time and world geography. Yes, our concerts present some noted, “world-renowned” artists. But what makes for fame in today’s mass media is not necessarily a skilled performer on an instrument or voice—flash, glitz, even outrage is what attracts attention. The sizzle. So you have probably never heard of many of...

MBAW 2010-11 Reach

Musical Bridges Around the World reaches more than 50,000 people per year, through 4 different concert series. The Kids to Concert series annually reaches 35,000 economically disadvantaged students in San Antonio public schools. Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral welcome and delight our city’s residents, as well as a significant number of tourists, serving nearly 2,500 listeners per year. International Music Festival Music Without Borders average attendance  is about 1000 per concert, composed of families with children, young professionals, senior citizens, and members of a variety of ethnic groups across our diverse city. We...

In Search of Golden Toes

In Search of Golden Toes

I heard about Elena Kunikova many years before we met. Her work is admired in Monaco, Paris, London, Tokyo, and her native Saint Petersburg. The talented missionary of elegant traditions of Russian classical ballet, critics all over the world are raving about her work. Robert Gottlieb of The New York Observer called her “one of our leading authorities on the Russian classical style.” We met in New York City in January 2009, in a corner cafe on 28th and 3rd. She walked in wrapped in a white fur coat, carrying an antique lamp she had just bought for her upper Westside apartment. As soon as we started talking, we felt as if we knew each other...