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An Undercurrent of Hope
THAT’S HOW GUEST PIANIST Robert Blocker described the third movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 which he performed last weekend at the Dock Street Theatre as part of a chamber music concert by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. As Dr. Blocker explained, Mozart’s favorite key to compose in was A major, largely due to... Read »
The Depth of the Slavic Soul
The CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ended this season’s Masterworks series last Thursday in Gaillard Auditorium with an energizing and emotionally uplifting “Slavic Soul” concert. Featuring Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 (1895) and Russian Pytor Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (1876-77), the orchestra demonstrated how noble... Read »
Just the Music
CHRISTMAS CAROLS and hymns are so familiar that as soon as you hear the melody, lyrics pop into your head. In this case, however, there were no lyrics. Just strings and brass playing Christmas songs—in refreshingly unfamiliar ways. In a last-minute Charleston Symphony Orchestra production—they just rose from the bureaucratic ashes a week ago—Anne... Read »
Local Youth Take On CSO’s Cause
A group of local music students—many of whom proudly claim CSO members as their teachers—are refusing to stand idly by and watch our cherished orchestra perish without doing something about it. Abby Kent is a home-schooled fifteen-year-old musician who is proficient on several instruments—and also a senior Girl Scout. As her Gold Award project... Read »
