Agarita Chamber Ensemble, poet Jenny Browne to perform at San Antonio Botanical Garden

There’s a storied and beautiful history of classical music intertwining with poetry. Rachmaninoff wrote pieces using Pushkin’s poetry. Schubert did the same with excerpts from Goethe’s Faust.

The lapidary quality of the two forms complement each other, like two jewels in a setting.

This month, the ever-inventive Agarita Chamber Ensemble will collaborate with San Antonio poet Jenny Browne, whose elegant and moving work will undoubtedly mesh with Samantha Bennett on violin, George Nickson on percussion, and the lush setting of the Betty Kelso Center at the San Antonio Botanical Garden.

Browne served as San Antonio’s 2016-2018 poet laureate and curated the recently released poetry collection Texas Being.

Free tickets are available online prior to the show.

Free, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, Betty Kelso Center at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston St., (210) 536-1400, sabot.org.

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