Jeffrey Kahane, music director of the San Antonio Philharmonic in Texas.

In Monday’s (5/13) San Antonio magazine (Texas), Deborah Martin writes, “Jeffrey Kahane, a Los Angeles native who has had a long and distinguished career playing and conducting around the world, is a big get [as music director] for the San Antonio Philharmonic. It is midway through its second season, though its roots run deep. The philharmonic sprang from the ashes of the San Antonio Symphony, which folded in 2022. Kahane started coming here to work with the San Antonio Symphony in the early 1990s…. He conducted the opening concert of the philharmonic’s current season; that’s when discussions started about the possibility of him joining the orchestra…. Kahane, [Board President and Acting Principal Bassoon Brian] Petkovich, and Executive Director Roberto Trevino were able to hash out the details of the new post relatively swiftly…. [Kahane] intends to program works drawn from the traditional classical repertoire, as well as new works by a diverse range of composers. Next season will include pieces by such contemporary composers as Gabriela Ortiz, Jeff Scott, Peter Shin and Sarah Kirkland Snider…. Kahane said, ‘My goal is nothing less than to see the San Antonio Philharmonic become a major force in American music.’ ”