-
Recent Posts
-
Recent Comments
- ernesto lecuona on Olé! Cuban Pianist Rocks the Sottile
- Olé! Cuban Pianist Rocks the Sottile | Concert Tickets , Sports Tickets , Theatre Tickets on Olé! Cuban Pianist Rocks the Sottile
- Doug Graham on CSO Musicians Voice their Concerns
- Ann Beauchamp on CSO and Chorus Tackle Vaughan Williams
- proper on CSO Musicians Voice their Concerns
City Paper Blogs
The News blog has moved hereThe Arts blog has moved hereThe Calendar blog has moved hereThe Music blog has moved hereby Jack Hunterby columnist Will MoredockLocal fashion deals and tipsOur new flirt/rant boardfrom writer David Lee Nelsonby Greg HambrickClassical music reviews from Lindsay KoobVideos, photos and shows from web editor Joshua Curry
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Farewell, My Friends
June 9, 2007 – 10:37 am
No, not to YOU, my faithful blogophiles; not yet. That’ll come very soon. Kindly read on.
Violinist Megan Julyan-Holland and her husband, cellist James Holland, have held the positions of Principal 2nd Violin and Principal Cello of the Charleston Symphony for quite some time. I’ve known them well ever since I was a member of [...]
Something Different at Dock Street
June 9, 2007 – 10:27 am
Friday’s tenth chamber program was unusual in two respects. First, the same musical team – pianist Stephen Prutsman and the St. Lawrence String Quartet – remained onstage for the entire program – and the final of the two works offered was a rare chance for a multimedia chamber experience – the first I’ve enjoyed in [...]
A Glass of Vintage Cohen
June 8, 2007 – 2:18 pm
Better late than never. We didn’t get to Wednesday’s opening night for Philip Glass’s much-buzzed The Book of Longing, but I was there last night loaded for bear. And I had a great time, despite some general reservations I harbor about this composer. Just click HERE to read more.
A Worth-Weill Experience
June 8, 2007 – 2:03 pm
Here’s the second of guest blogger Sam Sfirri’s posts.
Though the long walk in Charleston’s late spring heat on Wednesday afternoon was quite a sweaty drag, joining a near-packed St. Matthew’s Church filled with smiling faces and open ears made it worth Weill. For there we experienced a most enjoyable program of Kurt Weill’s smaller-scale vocal [...]
Precision and Passion
June 8, 2007 – 12:48 am
Nina Ananiashvili and the State Ballet of Georgia opened this festival’s run of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake to a packed and appreciative house tonight, further cementing Nina’s primacy in the world of ballet. Her Odette tonight was fluid and oh, so precise, and never failed to capture a beautiful sense of doomed longing. Her Odile charmed [...]
Chamber Challenge
June 7, 2007 – 4:56 pm
Wednesday evening’s Piccolo Spotlight concert at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park was one of the best-buzzed of the bunch – and no wonder: Featured were Charleston’s most famous resident violinist and cellist: Lee-Chin Siow and Natalia Khoma, plus their equally renowned piano partner, Volodymyr Vynnytsky. Siow and Khoma teach their instruments at the [...]
Faustus: Sharing the Nightmare
June 7, 2007 – 2:23 pm
Before I experienced Pascal Dusapin’s Faustus, the Last Night in the flesh, I suppose I knew what to expect better than most – as I’d already seen a DVD of the opera (more about that one later). Having found the recording rather disturbing, I approached the real thing with a mixed sense of foreboding and [...]
Opera Overview
June 7, 2007 – 1:55 pm
Well, I managed to get to all the operas this time – and in the first week, too. But other blogging priorities kept me from getting to them here in “Eargasms.” It’s just as well; I’ve had time to stew about them and discuss them with others (not that what anybody told me changed my [...]
Mahler Lite?
June 6, 2007 – 10:19 pm
Well, Mahler may have had his lighter moments, but he’s still Mahler. And that means big, complex, magnificent — and LOUD. Along with some pretty classy Strauss and Dukas, the Spoleto Festival brought Mahler’s “heavenly” Symphony No. 4 to vibrant life last night. To read my full review, just click HERE. I hope you were [...]
Sexy Butterflies Dig Jazz…Music In Time IV
June 5, 2007 – 10:31 pm
Director Kennedy’s first action on stage this evening was to unbutton his shirt, revealing a t-shirt bearing 4′33” in bold black just below John Cage’s name. “I’ve guess we’ve got time for the first…,” he quipped to the appreciative audience, looking at his watch. The crowd laughed, and a light tone was struck that permeated [...]
