Category Archives: Random Observations
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
Russian Passion, English Restraint
Kindly pardon my week-long absence – even bloggers appreciate occasional holidays (and many of us have other things to do for a living). But I still feel obliged to tell you about Jan Rautio, the brilliant and versatile young Russian pianist who graced the College of Charleston’s latest International Piano Series recital at the Sottile [...]
OLÉ! Fandangos (and other cool Hispanic stuff)
Last Friday’s Charleston Symphony “Backstage Pass” concert at the Sottile Theatre capped the series’ early emphasis on the huge (and little-known) body of engaging music from south of the border – and by that I mean not only Mexico, but south all the way into South America.
The program’s title came from the first work, [...]
Ancient Music, “Con Brio”
Please pardon my delay of nearly a week before telling you about this truly class act – but I’ve had other fish to fry and some urgent deadlines to meet. SO much music; SOOO little time!
One of the Holy City’s most delightful (and often least heralded) resident musical entities is the College of Charleston’s early [...]
Fine Young Fiddler Alert
It’s only natural that the best music students gravitate to the very finest of performers and teachers. So it should be no surprise that Charleston Symphony Concertmaster Yuriy Bekker has taken on some of the brightest and best of our budding young violininists as his students. Several of them will appear here at 7:30 tonight [...]
Bavarian Philharmonic Energizes Beethoven
Those of you who followed Eargasms during Spoleto know that I was only able to keep up with the best stuff with the help of guest bloggers – mostly fellow musicians and knowledgeable classical fans around town. I’m finding that, even during the regular season, it’s well-nigh impossible to keep up with all the best [...]
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 [...]