Charleston Symphony Orchestra News

 
Community orchestras provide affordable performances, fresh opportunities for ...
Charleston Post Courier
Conductor Todd Jenkins directs a recent Southcoast Symphony Orchestra rehearsal. But there are two things they do share with their larger professional brethren such as the Charleston Symphony Orchestra: the challenge of finding adequate funding in a ...


 
Breaking it down Spoleto style: Your quick-hit guide to Piccolo Spoleto and ...
Charleston Post Courier
The “Sunset Serenade” will open the festivities at sunset Friday with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra performing “Porgy and Bess” on the stairs of the Customhouse. Of course, Marion Square is busy, busy, busy every day with all the artists painting ...

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CSO Gospel Choir pays homage to post-Jim Crow-era migrations
Charleston City Paper
For this year's Piccolo performance, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Gospel Choir plans to pay homage to those 11 million African Americans who truly did take part in what is known as the Great Migration. "If you're black and you're from the South, ...


 
Charleston City Paper
Native Spoletian Laura Magnani pushes to keep the arts alive
Charleston City Paper
Charleston's classical music community had its own brush with death, of course, a couple of years ago when the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) shut down temporarily. We've seen what it looks like when a community forgets to value — or at least, ...


 
Charleston City Paper
Geoff Nuttall leads chamber music fans from the classics to the unusual
Charleston City Paper
She performed for several years in a Piccolo Spoleto Festival chamber series starting a decade ago, was a soloist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, has been part of a touring chamber series that swings through the state, and was soloist with the ...


 
Community Orchestras
Charleston Post Courier
... and fiscal constraints, community orchestras such as the Southcoast Symphony and Summerville Community Orchestra exhibit both advantages and disadvantages compared to their larger, professional brethren, like the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.


 
As the Festivals begin, some of the best art is free
Charleston Post Courier
The maestro for the Friday night concert is Joseph Young, a native South Carolinian, and he will lead the cast of hundreds with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the CSO Spiritual Ensemble and Gospel Choir, plus two international opera stars in ...

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