The evening was a well-appointed bookend. We were gathered in the beautiful modern library of the Tobin Estate, the live oaks spread generously in the spring evening outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. At the front of the room, former Mayor Phil Hardberger, reprising his wife's role of four years ago, when the City's first lady helped kick off the campaign for the 2008 venue-tax extension that is paying in large part for the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts on the banks of the San Antonio River.
This time around, County Judge Nelson Wolff was missing, as were former Mayor Lila Cockrell and District Attorney Susan Reed, but Hardberger was there to raise funds for a key tenant for the Tobin Center – Opera Theater San Antonio, presumed inheritor of the role once promised to the now defunct San Antonio Opera.
The exclusive event kicked off a bellwether week for OTSA, which announced a performance in partnership with the San Antonio Symphony for May 2013. That performance will likely be funded in part with $45,500 from the Office of Cultural Affairs, which has proposed that Council reallocate part of the funding unused by SAO to the new company.
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