by Phil Houseal | Mar 12, 2020 | All Articles, Education, Events, History, People of the Hill Country, Venue
Mar 11, 2020–Why have puppets fascinated humanity throughout history? Why do they continue to fascinate us? Because they cut across every culture, era, language, and age, according to Rob D’Arc, who will be building them at his workshop this weekend during the Llano...
by Phil Houseal | Mar 5, 2020 | All Articles, Events, Music, People of the Hill Country, Venue
Mar 4, 2020–For Pat Green, writing songs and sculpting bronzes are not that different. “I’m telling the truth. I just want to tell it in different ways.” The chart-topping American Texas Country artist known for his hit Wave on Wave will reveal another side of his...
by Phil Houseal | Feb 25, 2020 | All Articles, History, Music, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
Feb 26, 2020–Sometimes an idea is so elegant, it is discovered more than once. Such is the case with the “cello podium.” This platform cum amplifier started as a rumor uncovered by Ken Freudigman when he was a cello student at Eastman School of Music back in 1985. The...
by Phil Houseal | Feb 19, 2020 | All Articles, Education, Events, People of the Hill Country
Feb 19, 2020–With less than a week before their first performance, the inaugural class of In The Moment Improv did not even have a name. No one was worried. After all, it is an “improv” group, and stepping on stage immersed in uncertainty is sort of their raison...
by Phil Houseal | Feb 12, 2020 | All Articles, Education, Philosophy
Feb 12, 2020–While serving on yet another committee, I realized how many of my skills were learned in an elementary school classroom. Not as a student, but as the teacher. I consider myself a big picture guy who thinks in generalities. Buckminster Fuller was my muse....
by Phil Houseal | Feb 5, 2020 | All Articles, History, Philosophy
Feb 5, 2020–We gave up conventional and cable TV 25 years ago. But for Christmas I received access to one of the streaming services, so I’ve been revisiting series from the 1980s and 90s, the last time I watched anything. One that popped up was an episode of Star...
by Phil Houseal | Jan 27, 2020 | All Articles, Education, Events, Food, History, Music, People of the Hill Country, Venue
Jan 29, 2020–Musketeer, fire breather, or wizard, it’s always fascinating what motivates a person who leads an otherwise conventional life to don the garb and persona of a character living in the middle ages. To help me understand, Cathryn Harper agreed to talk on...
by Phil Houseal | Jan 27, 2020 | All Articles, Events, Music, People of the Hill Country
Jan 27, 2020–To commemorate Beethoven’s 250th birthday, violinist Matthew Zerweck and pianist Viktor Valkov will team up to perform the composer’s Violin Sonatas in a special recital on Sunday, Feb 16, 2020, 3:00 p.m., at San Antonio’s Luella Bennack Concert Hall,...
by Phil Houseal | Jan 24, 2020 | All Articles, Philosophy
Jan 22, 2020–I’m convinced we are a society stratified not by age, wealth, position, or education, but by our perception of time. There are two tribes: those who are “on time,” and those who view time as a malleable construct. I call them On-timers and Non-timers. If...
by Phil Houseal | Jan 16, 2020 | All Articles, Education, Music, Philosophy
Jan 15, 2020–In order to conquer a challenge, we must stop respecting it so much. In Mike Tyson’s book Undisputed Truth, he tells how famed boxing trainer Cus D’Amato took him on has a teenager and guided him to become heavyweight champion of the world. When D’Amato...
