For three decades, Cactus Pear Music Festival has brought world-class chamber music to San Antonio, cultivating a deep love for the art form through accessible performances, imaginative programming, and meaningful educational initiatives.
The Infinite Horizon is a season devoted to transformation, renewal, and boundless possibility. Across two weeks, each program explores moments of change: beginnings and endings, tradition and reinvention, loss and transcendence, elegance and exuberance.
Schedule of events
- July 18: Brave New World - Explores transformation as classical composers absorbed the vitality of ragtime and early jazz. Featuring Milhaud’s La création du monde, Op. 81 (1923); Still's Suite for violin and piano (1943); and a second half devoted to ragtime by Joplin and early jazz by Jelly Roll Morton.
- July 19: Riches to Rags - Closes the season by exploring the dialogue between classical elegance and the ragtime revolution. Featuring Stravinsky's Suite from L’histoire du soldat (1919); Ravel’s Violin Sonata in G Major (1927); and a final set of ragtime masterpieces by Joplin, Lamb, James Scott, and Eubie Blake.
For three decades, Cactus Pear Music Festival has brought world-class chamber music to San Antonio, cultivating a deep love for the art form through accessible performances, imaginative programming, and meaningful educational initiatives.
The Infinite Horizon is a season devoted to transformation, renewal, and boundless possibility. Across two weeks, each program explores moments of change: beginnings and endings, tradition and reinvention, loss and transcendence, elegance and exuberance.
Schedule of events
- July 18: Brave New World - Explores transformation as classical composers absorbed the vitality of ragtime and early jazz. Featuring Milhaud’s La création du monde, Op. 81 (1923); Still's Suite for violin and piano (1943); and a second half devoted to ragtime by Joplin and early jazz by Jelly Roll Morton.
- July 19: Riches to Rags - Closes the season by exploring the dialogue between classical elegance and the ragtime revolution. Featuring Stravinsky's Suite from L’histoire du soldat (1919); Ravel’s Violin Sonata in G Major (1927); and a final set of ragtime masterpieces by Joplin, Lamb, James Scott, and Eubie Blake.
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