SAN ANTONIO – Professional and pro-level symphonic orchestras are gaining momentum as they travel to reach audiences beyond traditional music halls.

Five years ago, Ronnie Sanders got the idea of ​​having high-caliber musicians come together to form an orchestra and play for audiences for free.

“Would anybody show up? And they did,” Sanders said to his surprise.

He has about 70 members who audition for the part. They travel to different auditoriums in the city and area as part of the South Texas Symphonic Orchestra.

“Most of our concerts are absolutely free. We want anybody who wants to hear an orchestra to come without any problem with ticket prices,” Sanders said.

The orchestra is on donations and fundraisers for support.

“It’s different when you’re playing with two or three people and then 70 people,” Sanders said.

Vaeda Corso, who plays the cello, said there is an artistic expression she wants

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have changed their European trip itinerary after the Palace announced today that the Queen has been put under medical supervision in Balmoral, Scotland. Harry traveled to join her and family members Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, along with his brother Prince William, who also traveled to Scotland to be with his grandmother. Meghan Markle remains in London, a source told Omid Scobie.

Meghan and Harry’s spokesperson confirmed this morning that the couple was traveling to Scotland to be with the Queen. They were supposed to attend the WellChild Awards today in London but understandably canceled their appearance, Hello! reported.

A source later specified to royal reporter Omid Scobie that only Harry traveled to Balmoral, while Meghan remained in London.

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Last fall Las Vegas (above), New York City and Orlando, Fla., were the top three destinations for travelers,according to TripAdvisor.




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Cities remain a go-to. So do tropical places like the Caribbean and Cancun.

In 2020, travelers avoided urban centers for beach towns and national parks, where it felt like a safer place to go, said Brian Hoyt of TripAdvisor.

But by last fall, Las Vegas, New York City, and Orlando had supplanted places like Key Largo, Key West and Atlantic City, which were the top three destinations for travelers in fall 2020, according to TripAdvisor.

The trend is continuing: Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver, Orlando and New York are the five most booked destinations in the United States for fall, according to Hopper, a travel booking site. For international travelers, cities like San Juan, Puerto

I’m hoping to hit the parkway, lower all the windows and drive to Asbury Park (or another favorite beach town) just as soon as anyone else. And along with my phonea cool pair of sunglasses and my most fantastic swim trunksI’m also packing a tiny but mighty speaker along with me.

The Sony XB13 is our best travel pick for Bluetooth speakers. It excels as an ultra-portable option with a surprisingly long battery life and a keen ability to deliver robust sound. Oh, and it’s just $59.99 — or as little as $48 when it’s on sale, like now — and comes in a slew of fun colors: black, coral pink, light blue, powder blue or taupe. Let’s unpack why it’s the perfect travel stowaway, especially when you’re considering packing for your next vacation.

The perfect vacation companion

This small but mighty Bluetooth speaker is the

Guests with an upcoming trip to Walt Disney World may be eligible for a massive refund from Disney.

With so much to see and do at the Most Magical Place on Earth, it is natural for most Guests to try and plan ahead as much as possible for their trip. This includes, of course, Park tickets and reservations, transport — whether a flight or any other means of transportation — and lodging, what outfits to pack, and even making some purchases in advance.

While being prepared is always allowed when traveling to Walt Disney World Resort, a mistake could cause hundreds of Guests to be eligible for a massive refund if they had an upcoming trip to visit Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, EPCOT, and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) shared more information regarding this massive wave of refunds caused by the incredibly high demand for the

• My sister and I were supposed to sail on the new Disney Wish cruise ship in July.
• But when we got to the port, my sister tested positive for COVID-19 and Disney turned us away.
• We then received a cruise credit to rebook and were sent to the airport via a Disney shuttle.

I’ve been anticipating my first cruise vacation since the start of this year.

In January, I scheduled a three-day trip on Disney’s newest ship, the Disney Wish, for one of its earliest voyages in June. I invited my sister to join, and we started counting down the days until our sailing.

But one month later, Disney announced it was delaying its initial trips because the ship’s construction was not complete. Though we were disappointed, we were able to rebook our standard, inside stateroom for a sailing in July with a 50% off discount,

More than 23 million American households – almost 1 in 5 nationwide – adopted a pet during the pandemic. And now, many of those Americans will try to take their first vacation with a cat, dog, or bird.

Are you ready?

Traveling with pets is one of the most controversial topics I’ve ever covered. From fake emotional support animals to annoying owners, the fur always flies when I write about animals and travel.

But it’s a fair question: What happens when you try to take all those pandemic pets on vacation with you? Should you even bother? And if you do, what should you know?

“Travel with pets has become more difficult after the pandemic,” says Josh Snead, CEO of Rainwalk Pet Insurance.

Are you traveling with dogs or cats this summer? Download these helpful apps

There’s a long list of pet travel challenges, including new fees and

I could probably list every job I had since college if I was pressed to do so, although I mostly remember them in episodic moments, and not especially well at that. There are by now a couple of impacted decades of memories to go through—whole years of variously grim lunches and emptied-out hungover commutes and different rote tasks carried out in windowless rooms on sunny days—broken up periodically by periods of unemployment in which I wrote exceedingly mannered short stories and watched horror movies in the afternoon. I could tell you about many of those lunches and commutes and tasks, but I couldn’t really say—could never, really, have said—how or why I wound up at one job or another. That wasn’t really how my life went, in work or most anywhere else, for most of that time. I floated along until I snagged on to something, and stayed stuck there

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A running list of everwhere I’ve been, week 28: 270. Grand Army 271. Nathan’s (the cart outside Atlantic Terminal) 272. Blueprint Bar 273. Yellow Rose 274. The HiHi Room 275. Brooklyn Pizza Market 276. Kimpanadas 277. Golden Palace 278. Kingston Tropical Bakery 279. Your Jerk Yard 280. Greek Xpress 281. Fort Defiance 282. Shinn East 283. PDT

Nothing is guaranteed in this life, not even a restaurant with an 4.9 average rating on DoorDash. But it was that stellar score on an otherwise nondescript jerk-chicken spot that pulled me out of my Brooklyn neighborhood to what is almost the very top of the subway map, 225th Street in the Bronx.

actually, Your Jerk Yard was going to be my second