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The acoustics in Mission Concepción are ideal for Austin Baroque Orchestra because it was built in the style early Latin American composers were used to.
Billy Traylor is founder and artistic director of the Austin Baroque Orchestra and Chorus. The group recently held an online concert recorded at Mission Concepción in San Antonio. Traylor says the UNESCO World Heritage Site is an ideal venue because its acoustics are similar to that of the cathedrals in Spain or Latin America – buildings familiar to the composers who wrote the music the group performs. The orchestra plays music written by Spanish composers and priests who traveled to the New World during the time of Spanish imperialism in North and South America.
Best reasons to visit each of the San Antonio Missions
For starters, its free and socially-distant fun
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The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park was designed to protect and preserve four Spanish frontier missions: Mission Concepcion, Mission San Jose, Mission San Juan Capistrano and Mission Espada.
The park, which is open and operating with social distancing measures in place, is free and an official unit of the National Park Service. The outposts of the missions were established by Franciscan friars, in order to spread Christianity knowledge to the region’s Native Americans. When first built, each mission complex featured things like churches, housing establishments, farm fields, granaries, irrigation systems, livestock and workshops for carpentry, masonry, spinning/