San Antonio is sinking

The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of October while mired in disputes, financial and legal.
Here’s the current state of affairs, by Sanford Nowlin:
“The San Antonio Philharmonic has pushed back its Classics III concert series, originally scheduled for Oct. 18-19, until next spring, Executive Director Roberto Treviño confirmed. The postponement of the concerts—which are to feature piano soloist Jon Kimura Parker performing George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F—comes after two key Philharmonic donors sued the orchestra earlier this month to force repayment of what court documents called $180,000 in loans. The legal dispute arose following the exodus of at least a dozen Philharmonic employees, including Chief Financial Officer Sylvia Romo, in recent weeks … Treviño … said the postponement will allow the orchestra to focus on selling tickets to its performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, set for Nov. 16-17 … Said Treviño, a former District 1 councilman tapped to lead the Philharmonic last summer, ‘Rather than stretch out staff so thin by presenting the Classics III concert, then turning around and presenting our biggest concert of the year just a few weeks later, we’re choosing to focus right now on Beethoven 9.’ Musicians in the Philharmonic learned of the change in an Oct. 1 letter signed by Treviño and Music Director Jeffrey Kahane.”