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Category Archives: Symphonic Music
PACK THE GAILLARD PROJECT
March 27, 2009 – 6:06 pm
If you’ve been following Eargasms, you know that the Charleston Symphony (players and staff alike) is in pretty bad shape. Scroll down to catch up on their unhappy saga. But the show goes on – at least for now.
What can the average classical music fan do, in these precarious times? It may seem that [...]
Charleston Symphony & Friends Deliver Another Special Evening
March 21, 2009 – 8:53 pm
Musically, last weekend was a very busy one for me (four concerts in as many days) … I’m just now getting caught up with it all in Eargasms. What a joy it is to report on a classical music scene like Charleston’s, offering a level of richness and variety (AND frequency) that makes it impossible [...]
Crunch Time for the CSO—AND its Overworked Staff!
March 14, 2009 – 11:47 pm
Well, folks – they’ve been telling us it would happen. While no announcement was made, I was able to verify at tonight’s Masterworks event the rumor I’d heard the day before: that the Charleston Symphony’s musicians were, in effect, “donating their services” for this concert. Their latest paychecks amounted to just 20% of their normal [...]
CSO Benefit a Delight
March 11, 2009 – 9:46 am
Saturday evening’s second musician-organized benefit concert this season by (and for) the Charleston Symphony Orchestra drew a pretty respectable crowd at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke & St. Paul.
The evening’s theme was “The Musicians of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Salute Charleston,” with the assorted musical offerings interspersed by assorted readings and poetry about [...]
Eargasm (and TUMMYgasm) Alert: Imminent CSO Benefit Events
March 5, 2009 – 10:41 pm
The Charleston Symphony — independent of their management – has scheduled a promising pair of benefit events, beginning this weekend.
First up is a Benefit Concert at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul this Saturday night (March 7), at 8 p.m. The concert theme will be “The Musicians of the Charleston Symphony Salute [...]
CSO and Chorus Tackle Vaughan Williams
February 27, 2009 – 12:13 am
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, led by Dr. Robert Taylor, packed the business end of Citadel Square Baptist Church last Sunday evening. The occasion was a festive and thrilling concert of choral-orchestral gems by 20th-Century English master Ralph Vaughan Williams – the 50th anniversary of whose death we observe this season.
The rest of [...]
Ballet Theatre and CSO Do it Right
February 18, 2009 – 10:33 pm
The Eargasms (and EYEgasms) flowed non-stop at the nearly packed Sottile Theatre Saturday evening, when Charleston’s Ballet Theatre and Symphony Orchestra got together for the first time in years to bring us a sweet and memorable Valentine’s Day treat.
First up was a busy and complex realization of Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. [...]
CSO Musicians Voice their Concerns
February 16, 2009 – 11:42 pm
I had a candid and informative discussion with three Charleston Symphony musicians last week about their artists’ perspective on the CSO’s current funding crisis. I initially expected to voice their concerns in an upcoming print article – but have since been asked to blog about it instead. It’s rather long for a blog post – [...]
View from the Bassoonist’s Chair
February 10, 2009 – 8:48 pm
Time for another post in my “guest blogger” series. When I asked Christopher B Sales, the CSO’s new Principal Bassoon this season, to consider contributing to Eargasms, he asked me what I was looking for. I suggested something about what “makes him tick” as a musician. Knowing that Chris is one smart and articulate dude [...]
SCOOP! CSO Lives to Play Another Season – but Pays a Steep Price
When CSO President Ted Legasy mounted the Gaillard’s stage prior to the Charleston Symphony’s Masterworks concert earlier this evening, you could almost sense the crowd holding its collective breath … he’s been mostly the bearer of bad tidings as of late. But tonight’s announcement was more like a classic “good news/bad news” scenario.
The blessed [...]