Music
CMC Charms with Austrian Music at Memminger
CHAMBER MUSIC CHARLESTON (CMC) continues to be one of the finest musical experiences in the region, as well as one of the best values for the money. The music and musicians are top rate, and the venues emanate a familial, relaxed ambience—the essence of “chamber” music. This is true not only of the CMC... Read »
CSO and Verdi Make the Rafters Ring
THE VERDI REQUIEM and I go way back. Like all the way back to the first time I heard it performed in Vienna in the 1960s, as a thunderstruck boy of 14. Since coming home to Charleston in the early 1990s, I’ve performed it (as a chorus member) twice with the Charleston Symphony under... Read »
CMC Austrian Evening to Feature Kreisler & Schubert
NEXT SATURDAY, APRIL 20, Chamber Music Charleston (CMC) will bring the spirit of Austria to Memminger Auditorium for the finale of its Kuhn & Kuhn Law Firm Memminger Concert Series. The concert will focus on Austria with special guest pianist Andrew Armstrong joining musicians of Chamber Music Charleston for a program of music by... Read »
Chu-Fang Huang Deeply Satisfying in IPS Finale
One of the first things I learned when I arrived at the Sottile Theatre last Tuesday evening for the final recital of the College’s International Piano Series was that the evening’s distinguished pianist, Chu-Fang Huang, had changed her program completely. So much for my laboriously written program notes! But mild irritation turned to concern... Read »
Charleston Music Fest Offers Varied Program
In Charleston Music Fest’s third concert of the 2012-13 season, a varied program from J.S. Bach’s “Chaconne” to Myroslav Skoryk’s “Karpathian Rhapsody” provided a sure-fire vehicle for the 26 year-old violinist Nazar Pylatyuk, a native of the Ukraine. The recital hall in the Simons Center at the College of Charleston was the venue Friday... Read »
CSO’s “Postcards from Abroad” a Success
THE CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA delivered the fifth and final concert of their Chamber Orchestra series on Tuesday evening, delighting their sold-out Dock Street Theatre audience… despite a few problems. Their program, entitled “Postcards from Abroad,” offered a choice array of musical treasures both old and new from various corners of the globe, though the... Read »
Pianist Chu-Fang Huang at Sottile April 2
CHU-FANG HUANG, who will perform at the Sottile on Tuesday, April 2 as part of the International Piano Series, burst onto the music scene as a brilliant finalist in the Van Cliburn Piano Competition and won First Prize in the Cleveland Piano Competition. Her breathtaking recording of Scarlatti sonatas is available on the Naxos... Read »
Volodymyr Vynnytsky Leads Sottile Powerhouse
WHAT TURNED OUT to be a barn-burner concert of works by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev on Friday night began benignly with Gabriel Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80—a piece (or combination of pieces) with an unusual history of transmutations. Its origins lie in a score that Fauré wrote in 1898 for a play by... Read »
Music Fest Trio “Triumphs” at Simons Center
CHARLESTON MUSIC FEST performed on Friday, February 22 at the Recital Hall of the Simons Art Center at the College of Charleston. Lee-Chin Siow, violin, Natalia Khoma, cello, and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, piano provided sterling readings of two rarely heard works: Mozart’s Piano Trio in C Major, K. 548 and Ernest Chausson’s Piano Trio in... Read »
Pianist Ciro Foderé Triumphs at Sottile
EMERGING URUGUAYAN PIANO VIRTUOSO Ciro Foderé delivered a magnificent recital on Tuesday evening at the Sottile Theatre as part of the College of Charleston’s dependable International Piano Series. Foderé—one of Artist-in-Residence Enrique Graf’s most accomplished and promising protégés—is a familiar figure to Charleston audiences, having given many fine recitals and several noteworthy concerto performances... Read »
