A busy musical weekend looms, beginning tomorrow evening (8:00 p.m., Friday, Oct 26th) with a gala vocal scholarship benefit concert at the College of Charleston’s Simons Center Recital Hall. The College’s vocal/choral programs have never been better – and your support will help keep their efforts on an upward curve. Featured will be the College’s two top choirs, plus a wealth of both faculty and student talent. Several distinguished vocal graduates will even be on hand to entertain you.
Saturday evening’s Charleston Symphony concert – the season’s second Masterworks event – will show off three of the College’s most distinguished artists in a symphonic setting. Violinist Lee-Chin Siow, cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Enrique Graf will appear in Beethoven’s noble Triple Concerto – and you’ll also hear Debussy’s lush tone-painting, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun plus Bartok’s brainy Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Come experience these fabulous musicians for yourselves — and Check out everything the CSO has to offer this season, right HERE.
The next day, you can take in some superb chamber music, thanks to the first of Chamber Music Charleston’s Holy City Series – in which chamber masterpieces will be presented at a number of historic Charleston Churches. Sunday’s event – 3:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 61 Church St. – will offer works by Mendelssohn, Schmidt and Dvorak. Since their House Concerts are sold out for the year, this series will offer your only opportunities to hear these fine musicians.
Then it’s back to the College early next week for two more School of the Arts events. You’ll get to hear violinist Simon Shiao Monday evening (8:00 p.m. at the Simons Center Recital Hall), and Tuesday’s noontime St Luke’s recital series will feature soprano Suzanne Atwood-Fleming and baritone Scott Atwood. Click HERE to explore these happenings and more.
