Category Archives: Chamber Music
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 [...]
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) [...]
Viva Vivaldi! The Red Priest Soars In New Trinity Baroque’s Piccolo Debut
A good sized crowd had already gathered outside First (Scots) Presbyterian Church by the time I arrived for the Piccolo Spoleto debut of the New Trinity Baroque…and I was quite early! The doors were not yet open and we were told that NTB were still engaging in a last minute run through. Vivaldi, ever the [...]
Chamber Series off to Smashing Start
Too bad I couldn’t get this post up while you still had time to get to this delightful concert – but successive first-night performances of Amistad and La Cenerentola (with LONG reviews due next morning) got in the way. Just click on the titles to read what I had to say about them.
Well, things [...]
SPOLETO EARGASM ALERT No. 1
Less than two days to go – and the time has come to make good on some of my previous post’s brash promises — like telling you some of what you can expect to hear in Dr. Charles Wadsworth’s second-to-none (and usually top-secret) chamber series.
But first, don’t forget that the Dock Street theatre (the [...]
More Reasons to Read Eargasms
So, who the heck am I, to presume that I can digest the classical courses of America’s biggest and best arts festival for you?
Well, most of Chucktown’s highbrow musicians and fans will attest to my local notoriety as an all-round (though distinctly un-stuffy) classical geek. They all know me: I’ve presided for ten [...]
Charleston Music Fest Does it Again
It seems I can never make it to all of the worthwhile classical music events hereabouts – but I make a special effort to get to as much of the College of Charleston’s fabulous Charleston Music Fest series as I can. The pet project of star musicians and C of C professors Lee-Chin Siow (violin) [...]
Home-Grown Composers (some good ones, too!)
After the final Tender Land curtain call (previous post), I hot-footed it next door to the College of Charleston’s Simmons Center recital hall, where the Spring edition of the annual Young Composers’ Forum was already well under way. C of C professors Edward Hart and Trevor Weston run the school’s well-respected composition program – [...]
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 [...]