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Hear Your Favorite Tunes from the Wizard of Oz During This Symphonic Concert on Friday Image
Hear Your Favorite Tunes from the Wizard of Oz...
Eighty years after the debut of The Wizard of Oz on the big screen, experience it like never before with the San Antonio Symphony performing the Academy Award-winning soundtrack live with the film. Be whisked away to the Land of Oz to see old friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly...
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Reconnect to the Animal Inside of You During the Art and Animal Exhibit Image
Reconnect to the Animal Inside of You During...
In 1958, a group of nine artists formed the Society of Animal Artists after receiving an enthusiastic public response to an exhibition titled Animal in the Bronx Zoo. Now, the Briscoe Western Art Museum is pleased to host the 59th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Animal Artists that will...
First Day Of Winter
The first day of Winter or winter solstice occurs at the instant when the Sun's position in the sky is at its greatest angular distance on the other side of the equatorial plane from the observer's hemisphere. The seasonal significance of the winter solstice is in the reversal of the gradually lengthening nights and shortening days. Depending on the shift of the calendar, the winter solstice occurs sometime between December 20 and December 23 each year in the northern hemisphere, and between June 20 and June 23 in the southern hemisphere, during either the shortest day or longest night of...