Sunday, Jul 20, 2025 at 3:00pm
This summer, Cactus Pear Music Festival celebrates its 29th season with a title that says it all: 29 and Counting. It’s a nod to our longevity, and to the milestone just ahead-but also to the heartbeat of chamber music itself. Chamber music lives in the count: the toe-tapping energy, the shared downbeat, the exhilarating interplay of musicians perfectly in sync. Sustained by years of unforgettable performances, meaningful connections, and a community that keeps showing up, we’re not just looking back-we’re still playing, still counting, and after all this time, we haven’t missed a beat. All concerts are FREE but we do request that all those attending REGISTER their attendance
Schedule:
July 20, 2025
3 PM: The Final Countdown
UIW | Diane Bennack Hall, San Antonio
As we approach the final concert of this season’s festival, The Final Countdown draws together a tapestry of musical voices-nostalgic, fiery, sacred, and celebratory. This program moves across eras and continents, opening with refined elegance and closing with the passionate pulse of popular tradition. Strings and winds, piano and bayan intertwine in a genre-crossing journey that bids farewell not with solemnity, but with soul.
Bohuslav Martin? (1890–1959)
Trio
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), arr. Andrei Golsky
Gypsy Invention | Based on Two-Part Inventions
Efrem Podgaits (b. 1949)
Ave Maria, Op. 195
Angél Villoldo (1861–1919)
El Choclo
Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
Ave Maria
Carlos Gardel (1890–1935)
Por una cabeza
Jacob Gade (1879–1963)
Jalousie (“Tango Tzigane”)
Ukrainian Traditional
Rozpryahayte, khloptsi, koni (“Unharness the Horses, Lads”)
