Egad – in less than a week, I’ll be struggling manfully (and happily) to keep up with the heady artistic juggernaut we call Spoleto … just the classical music end of it. But if you’ve partaken of this huge cultural cornucopia before, you know that its classical offerings are the meat and potatoes of the festival’s massive menu. That’s not to detract from Spoleto’s fabulous theater, dance or jazz happenings … but, let’s face it: the great musical classics – and the best new additions to the genre – are what most folks come here for, year after year.
If you followed last year’s festival edition of Eargasms, I think you’ll agree that very few classical stones were left unturned. I certainly had fun keeping you abreast of the goings-on … almost ALL of ‘em. And, if my creaky body and deranged mind hold out, I hope to do the same for you this time ‘round, too. Name your genre: opera, orchestral, choral, chamber, contemporary … I’ll be there for most of it, at the rate of two or three events a day.
And if I can’t make it to some promising event, I’ll just call in my trusty reinforcements – like my good friend and fellow musical omnivore Robert Bondurant, who’ll be covering the best that Piccolo Spoleto has in store. Eargasms regulars will recall his lively and insightful blogging from last year. I’ve also recruited various other musical friends to serve as guest bloggers: folks like Sam Sfirri, a gifted jazz pianist and composition major at the College of Charleston … he shared some personal Eargasm moments with you last year, too.
Between us, we aim to faithfully share our impending festival experiences with you … as an ongoing daily journal of sorts. And it’ll be our very great pleasure to do so – ‘cause few things in life satisfy like a really intense Eargasm. And I have yet to experience a Spoleto that didn’t produce a whole lot of them.
Spoleto Looms – and We’re BAAAACK!
Egad – in less than a week, I’ll be struggling manfully (and happily) to keep up with the heady artistic juggernaut we call Spoleto … just the classical music end of it. But if you’ve partaken of this huge cultural cornucopia before, you know that its classical offerings are the meat and potatoes of the festival’s massive menu. That’s not to detract from Spoleto’s fabulous theater, dance or jazz happenings … but, let’s face it: the great musical classics – and the best new additions to the genre – are what most folks come here for, year after year.
If you followed last year’s festival edition of Eargasms, I think you’ll agree that very few classical stones were left unturned. I certainly had fun keeping you abreast of the goings-on … almost ALL of ‘em. And, if my creaky body and deranged mind hold out, I hope to do the same for you this time ‘round, too. Name your genre: opera, orchestral, choral, chamber, contemporary … I’ll be there for most of it, at the rate of two or three events a day.
And if I can’t make it to some promising event, I’ll just call in my trusty reinforcements – like my good friend and fellow musical omnivore Robert Bondurant, who’ll be covering the best that Piccolo Spoleto has in store. Eargasms regulars will recall his lively and insightful blogging from last year. I’ve also recruited various other musical friends to serve as guest bloggers: folks like Sam Sfirri, a gifted jazz pianist and composition major at the College of Charleston … he shared some personal Eargasm moments with you last year, too.
Between us, we aim to faithfully share our impending festival experiences with you … as an ongoing daily journal of sorts. And it’ll be our very great pleasure to do so – ‘cause few things in life satisfy like a really intense Eargasm. And I have yet to experience a Spoleto that didn’t produce a whole lot of them.