Category Archives: Chamber Music
More Cutting-Edge Marvels from Music in Time
Tuesday’s second Music in Time installment brought us three very different and appealing creations from cutting-edge composers of right NOW. All three items were scored entirely for strings – save for the winsome addition of a lone clarinet in the second number.
Series host (and justly famed composer) John Kennedy kicked things off with Baghdad […]
Charleston Music Fest Provides Excitement Of Several Sorts
Last minute adjustments to the piano’s tuning were being administered as I entered New Tabernacle Fourth Baptist Church for this evenings offering by local “supergroup,” Charleston Music Fest. With the tuning properly tweaked, all systems looked green and a palpable air of anticipation covered the audience. While Ellen Dressler Moryl gave a few opening remarks […]
Marina Lomazov Update
I spoke with Ellen Dressler Moryl this evening after the Charleston Music Fest’s concert. You’ll have to wait until I’ve had a bite to eat for their review, but I did want to let everyone know that Marina Lomazov’s injury should not threaten her playing in the future. Her collar bone has been broken, so […]
A Sad Note, but the Show goes on!
While listening to Marcus Overton’s Spoleto Today interview with Ellen Dressler Moryl this morning, I learned a bit of sad news. Marina Lomazov has been involved in a freak accident and will be unable to perform. We wish her a speedy recovery and return to performance. But fear not! The program will go on as […]
A Fresh Dose of Chamber Charm
This afternoon’s first go at our cherished chamber series’ third program sported the usual assortment of musical “cherries” – and the usual happy crowd of chamber music nuts was there to pick them. All administrative details have –hallelujah – been attended to: the program board was where everybody could see it, and Dr. Wadsworth was […]
Quickie Eargasm Alert
I almost forgot to tell you about another of the upcoming chamber series works that Dr. Wadsworth leaked to me. Show up for tomorrow afternoon’s program III at 1:00, and you’ll hear (among other things) Franz Schubert’s Auf dem Strom , a lovely song for voice, horn and piano. Tenor Paul Groves will do […]
A Well-Done first Intermezzo
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church was chock-full for Sunday afternoon’s first outing of Spoleto USA’s ever-popular Intermezzi series, offering mostly smaller-scale instrumental classics. Conductor Marc Dana Williams – a well-proven Spoleto veteran – led a gifted gaggle of players from the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in a happy program that included two cherished classics plus a glowing […]
Chamber II Delights On A Beautiful Morning
Dr. Wadsworth greeted us with his customary enthusiasm and hearty humor for the second installment of the Bank Of America Chamber Music series. The small kinks in production mentioned in Lindsay’s blog on Chamber Music I remain, but did nothing to distract our attention from the business at hand. Yes, it would have been nice […]
More from Amistad Composer Anthony Davis
I’m just about brain-dead, after covering successive opening nights for this year’s two big operas. But before I collapse, I’ve just gotta tell you about the kinds of music that Amistad composer Anthony Davis writes when he’s not working on an opera (he’s got five of ‘em under his belt).
I’ve heard (and thoroughly enjoyed) […]
Hear ‘Em While You Can – and a Fresh Eargasm Alert
If you haven’t heard vivacious violist Hsin-yun Huang or super-tenor Paul Groves yet, you’ve got one more chance: tomorrow’s 11:00 p.m. concert will be the last outing for Program IV – the final one featuring these fab festival newcomers. I had the unqualified joy of catching it this morning.
After years of bugging Dr. Wadsworth […]