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Orchestra bends knee to Freemasons

Orchestra bends knee to Freemasons

The desperate San Antonio Philharmonic has signed a deal to perform at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, a Masonic self-designated cathedral.

By way of welcome, music director Jeffrey Kahane and Executive Director Robert Trevino are planning a Freemason-themed concert:

Treviño said he hopes the space will be ready in time for a spring season performance of a specially-themed concert programmed by Kahane to honor Freemasonry, a fraternal organization with roots dating to Medieval times in which the Scottish Rite organization maintains membership.  

Several well-known classic and modern composers were Masons, as members of the organization are known, including Mozart, Jean Sibelius, John Philip Sousa, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, Kahane said, and his program will include their music.

Couldn’t make it up.

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