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Eargasm Alert: Taylor music Festival
Well, Spoleto may be history for this year, but the musical action’s not over yet. Esteemed local musicians Rob and Mary Taylor are staging their Taylor Music Festival this week, hard on the heels of Spoleto. This very different and enjoyable event presents the unusual combination of Choral Music and Celtic Music, and offers both […]
Lullabies for Disaster Relief: a Shameless Plug
Yup, you got it. I’m asking for your money. But pour MOI? Perish forbid!
As I write, I’m listening to one of the most gorgeous vocal CD’s I’ve heard lately … and no wonder; it’s done by Courtenay Budd – of the lovely soprano voice that’s graced Charles Wadsworth’s Dock Street Chamber programs off and […]
Intermezzi Farewell
– A final post from guest blogger Sam Sfirri:
As I strolled to St. Matthew’s for the last time this Spoleto season, I noticed Charleston’s streets had become noticeably emptier, with the art vendors gradually leaving Marion Square Park. The recently intensified heat seemed to drain all the excitement and creative energy out of those who […]
More Intermezzi Magic at St. Matt
Three delights for smaller orchestra were bundled into Wednesday’s second Intermezzo program, making for a memorable late-afternoon affair.
It’s hard to go wrong scheduling a Rossini overture for any concert. And the bubbly ones to his comic operas – like L’Italiana in Algieri, heard here – are especially welcome. In the capable hands of the […]
Sneak Peek of the Charleston Virtuosi
I just got in from Amahl and the Night Visitors, my first opera this season. Opera is Piccolo’s theme this year, and the outreach concerts of the Opera is for Everyone Series lives up to its name. I need to get to my review of Amahl, but thought I’d hit the blog and drop an […]
Pictures Of Change…poetry in Dock Street’s courtyard
Poet, Jerri Chaplin
While this festival season offers several tributes to departed members of the Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto communities, one began this evening that touches the core of our dear festivals. Carol Furtwangler and Ellen Dressler Moryl unveiled the Sundown Poetry Series, dedicated to the memory of Alice Cabaniss Banks. Ellen Dressler Moryl read a […]
Antioch Addendum
BTW, there’s a thorny little issue that needs to be cleared up here. Apparently, some fan of the Antioch ensemble (below) took it upon himself to do some unofficial, unwanted P.R. for them by writing rather indignant, sarcastic letters to the local newspapers in recent years, complaining bitterly about the lack of local press coverage […]
Positive Premonitions: Mahagonny and more
Just a quickie to let you know that I sneaked into yesterday’s dress rehearsal of Mahagonny at the Sottile. I had to leave to go back to work after the first act – but what I saw left me hungrier than ever for the whole thing. You’re in for a gripping (and disturbing) musical parable […]
Correction — Mea Culpa
It seems Supergeek lied to you in the CP’s May 23 preview issue. Somehow I didn’t get the word that Westminster’s two mixed-choir concerts (May 31 & June 7) will NOT happen at their usual location at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke & St. Paul. They’ve been moved right around the corner, to St. […]
Menotti Memorialized
No matter what the reasons were for Spoleto USA and Gian Carlo Menotti parting ways back in the early 1990’s, you just can’t get much beyond the fact that without him, the festival simply wouldn’t be here. And for folks (like me) who stick around this town in large part due to Spoleto (and other […]
