Taylor Music Group
An Eclectic Celtic Christmas Concert
SATURDAY NIGHT WAS THREE Christmas concerts in one: a healthy dose of choral music, a little foot-stomping fiddlin’, and an Irish-music ensemble featuring a guitarist, singer, and songwriter—all under the creative hand of Robert Taylor in “Now We Sing of Christmas” at the Cathedral of St. Luke andSt. Paul. As usual with the Dr.... Read »
Refreshing Renditions of Christmas Music
HERE IS NOT just another recording of a Christmas music collection. Local conductor Robert Taylor is one of those gifted musicians whose imagination and musical skills has brought together a talented group of singers and instrumentalists who bring life and joy in a classical and Celtic fashion to this mix of traditional and rarely... Read »
The “Royal” Voices of the Taylor Choir
NO WONDER the Taylor Festival Choir has such a stellar reputation. Their concentration, their precision, their passion, and, above all, their unity of sound are unsurpassed. And then there’s director Robert Taylor’s tasteful flair for the theatrical—this time in the form of the choir’s courtly entrance, striding two-by-two, in measured pace to the music... Read »
The Month of Maying
The Taylor Festival Choir will present a concert of songs about love and Spring on May 15, 2011 at 3 PM at the Cathedral of St. Luke & St. Paul on Coming Street. To learn more about this concert, visit their web page. Below is our interview with the Director, Dr. Robert Taylor, as... Read »
The Joy of Pure Listening
THE CHANCEL at the Cathedral of St. Luke & St. Paul was set up for the choir, but they were nowhere to be seen—which turned out to be a wonderful thing. Dr. Robert Taylor, director of the College of Charleston Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers, chose to start this concert with the choir up... Read »
A Loving Tribute at Memminger
SATURDAY NIGHT at Memminger Auditorium, the Charleston Symphony Chorus presented a beautiful and meaningful performance of Brahms’ “German Requiem” in tribute to the late David Stahl, its former music director and conductor. Dr. Robert Taylor expertly and lovingly conducted the orchestra and a combined chorus of over 200 souls and two soloists. The chorus,... Read »
CofC Opera Delivers Sweet and Saucy Mikado
ALL TOGETHER, NOW: “If you want to know who they were—they were gentlemen (and ladies) of Japan …”—at least the sorts of Japanese characters that W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan saw fit to project onstage during England’s Victorian era. And said characters came to wonderfully absurd and entertaining life in Saturday evening’s sparkling... Read »
Talking About David Stahl
The Charleston Symphony Chorus will perform the Brahms Requiem as a tribute to Maestro David Stahl on April 16, 2011 at Memminger Auditorium. Here’s our interview with Director, Dr. Robert Taylor as he talks about David and the upcoming performance. »
A Holy Night of Singing
IT BEGAN WITH haunting, fugue-like layers of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel pealing from the back of the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul as the chorus—each of them holding a candle—assembled in the outer aisles, surrounding the congregation. Then came a solemn processional up the center aisle as they sang Gustav Holst’s... Read »
Madrigal Magic in Randolph Hall
THIS IS HOW we should dine every evening (well, most evenings): among friends in a sumptuous candle-lit room, with delicious food and plenty of wine, surrounded by a chorus of singers and the tonic sway of their songs. With, of course, a small troupe of actors to entertain us while we indulge our bounty.... Read »
The churches of Charleston
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