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DEADLINE - OCTOBER 1, 2024

The South Texas Symphonic Orchestra will perform two magnificent works at 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, May 15, 2022 on the campus of the University of Texas-San Antonio in the Music Building's Recital Hall.

The orchestra will present the world premiere performance of Leon Steward's Symphony Number 15 and Brucker's Romantic 4th Symphony.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Leon Steward (b.May 28, 1959) is originally from Baytown, Texas. A prolific American composer, with over 350 published works for wind band, orchestra, brass ensembles and jazz, his music has been performed across the United States and in Europe.

His career included thirty-eight years of teaching secondary music education, all in Texas. He was awarded the Butler County Symphony composition competition for his music.

He has been awarded the Butler County Symphony composition competition for The Fermi Paradox, was runner up in the Humbolt University Brass competition with The Invasion of America for Brass Sextet. He has also been a finalist in the Association of Texas Small School Bands composition contest three times and been selected as a finalist four times with the Cypresswood Symphonic band.

Mr. Steward is a member of Texas Music Educators Association, The Association of Texas Small School Bands, Texas Bandmasters Association, and Texas Music Adjudicators Association. Mr. Steward received a bachelor’s in music theory/composition from Lamar University in 1981 and a master’s degree in music education in 1988 also from Lamar.

Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) was born in Austria and best known for his symphonies and choral works. The premiere of his 4th Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic proved a major turning point in Bruckner’s career. Though critics remained divided, the audience responded enthusiastically, and the musicians of the Philharmonic realized that Bruckner was one of the major composers of their time.

The genesis of this work—considered by many to be his first symphonic masterpiece—had been difficult for the perfectionist composer. After completing the first draft in 1874, he revised it thoroughly in 1878 which is the version on the program.