This front page story made\u00a0me cringe.<\/p>\n
Gov. Greg Abbott blames parents and Democrats for \u201cchoosing a better option than what their assigned school provides.\u201d<\/p>\n
The real blame falls on the governor\u2019s push to deplete funding for public schools and redirect it to private schools.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Abbott\u2019s recipe for ensuring public schools lack the capability to improve and deliver. It\u2019s one more reason to vote\u00a0Republican leadership out of office.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m pleased to see the start of Harmonium\u2019s first season under the direction of Jeffrey Kahane. He has shown us that the many talents of multiple organizations can be effectively utilized for a splendid performance.<\/p>\n
The rise of the the Orchestra San Antonio at the Tobin Center is also a refreshing scene. From its beginnings as a support orchestra, it has expanded, hopefully, to be a another major player in San Antonio\u2019s classical music genre.<\/p>\n
Then there is the San Antonio Philharmonic. What started out as a rise from the ashes of the San Antonio Symphony and showed great promise in its first three years has now become almost nonexistent.<\/p>\n
Executive Director Roberto Trevi\u00f1o\u00a0has still to produce, as promised, a 2026-27 season and seems to be more concerned with lawsuits against Kahane and the Harmonium.<\/p>\n
As a former donor to the philharmonic, it is unimaginable how quickly the orchestra has gone downhill.<\/p>\n
My sincere wish is that Harmonium and Orchestra San Antonio will succeed. If so, there is no question that San Antonio will be the benefactor.<\/p>\n
Holding names on a coveted donor list doesn\u2019t guarantee donations.<\/p>\n
The San Antonio Philharmonic lost our donation by refusing to sell season tickets for the multiple rows of dedicated disabled seats identified on the Scottish Rite Auditorium floor plan.<\/p>\n
Executive Director Roberto Trevi\u00f1o, not the musicians of the philharmonic, made the decision that ended our support.<\/p>\n
Lawsuits claiming that stolen donor lists are responsible for lost donations have no merit. These lawsuits merely take money from our treasured musicians caught in the crossfire on all sides.<\/p>\n
Trevi\u00f1o needs to stop harming the very people he pledged to support.<\/p>\n
Margo Denke and Jim Griffin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This front page story made\u00a0me cringe. Gov. Greg Abbott blames parents and Democrats for \u201cchoosing a better option…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-458949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}