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Chamber Music Savoir Faire
ONCE AGAIN, a (large) Charleston audience got a taste of the fine caliber of our local musicians—thanks to Sandra Nikolajevs and her efforts to see Chamber Music Charleston not only flourish but become the standard bearer of classical music as a complete cultural experience. “A Celebration of France” was presented as an evening of French... Read »
Celebrating French Music Bistro Style
WANT TO HEAR some of the best French romantic music while sipping wine in a Paris bistro? In this case, the ‘‘bistro’ will be at 56 Beaufain Street on Saturday, February 4, when Chamber Music Charleston presents its second installment of the Kuhn & Kuhn Law Firm Memminger Concert Series. Come early to sip... Read »
Beethoven’s “Women” at the Library Society
FRESH FROM THEIR PERFORMANCE in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, the Actors’ Theatre of South Carolina and Chamber Music Charleston will present “Beethoven: His Women and His Music” at the Charleston Library Society, Thursday November 3 at 7:00 P.M. This innovative musical drama combines the live classical music of Beethoven’s Archduke Piano Trio with... Read »
A Magic Moment of Live Chamber Music
WHY DIDN’T ANYONE think of this before? After all, Charleston is a Southern social town. It only makes sense that one of the best ways to present classical music is in a social context—with bistro tables wrapping around the stage, wine served beforehand, and the crowd mingling in a cheerful, festive ambiance for 45... Read »
The Art of Fine Living “Live’
THE ART OF FINE LIVING doesn’t get much better than when it combines world-class chamber music with fine wine and gourmet food. Which is what’s going to happen Saturday night, October 15 as Chamber Music Charleston presents “A Celebration of Germany,” the first of its distinctive Memminger Concert Series. What makes these concerts unique... Read »
Mozart In The South Sets the Season’s Tone
CAUGHT UP as we are in these frantic, full-bore, financially uncertain times, it is not easy to slip away, find a few minutes of outer—not to mention inner—quiet, and get away from it all. Yes, this is what we try to do on our walks, runs, and bicycle rides, or within the secret seclusion... Read »
A Musical Gallery
IT’S ONE THING to listen to chamber music in a bleak, bare-walled auditorium. It’s quite another to soak in the sounds as you sit inside an art gallery where wine and hors d’ouevres await. That’s at least four things you have to look forward to this weekend when Chamber Music Charleston presents another signature... Read »
Chamber Charm & Excitement at Memminger
THE MUSICIANS of Chamber Music Charleston celebrated their fifth anniversary in front of a happy sellout crowd (including LOTS of young people) Saturday evening at Memminger auditorium. CMC is known primarily for gracing Charleston’s historic private homes and churches with their music, but they’ve expanded their activities to include their Mozart in the South... Read »
No Longer a Secret
AS THE CLASSICAL MUSIC options in Charleston keep growing, there is one chamber music ensemble that, although it has stayed very busy, has remained somewhat of a secret in town—probably because it does so many private-home concerts on Kiawah, Seabrook, and Edisto, as well as downtown, on Daniel Island, and in Summerville. Well, the... Read »
Nurturing the Arts
SHE KEEPS DOING IT. She keeps encouraging kids to enjoy and appreciate classical music. And they love it. They also packed the Dock Street Theatre a few days before Christmas to hear it. Selections, that is, of Christmas favorites performed by the Chamber Music Charleston trio of Nonoko Okada (violin), Regina Helcher Yost (flute),... Read »
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