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Bach Keyboard Extravaganza
THE FANTASTIC FINALE to the International Piano Series at the College of Charleston is coming next Tuesday night. It features an all Bach program for multiple pianos accompanied by a string ensemble of members from the College of Charleston Chamber Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lorenzo Muti. And all of the... Read »
Enrique Graf at the Piano
THE INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES at the College of Charleston just keeps getting better—largely due to its founder and chief nurturer, Enrique Graf, who will perform next week in the series’ fourth solo concert this year. CharlestonToday sat down recently with Enrique (see the video below) to get more insight into his upcoming concert and... Read »
A Prodigy Among Us
ANY FAN OF THE PERFORMING ARTS is fascinated by a “prodigy”—a word that my dictionary defines as “a person endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities, especially a precocious child.” Close enough, I suppose—but I think the Germans have a better word for it, namely “Wunderkind,” translatable as “wonder-child.” This term implies a miraculous level... Read »
Guest Pianist, Hartmut Sauer
THE STELLAR College of Charleston 2009–2010 International Piano Series begins next week with a performance by Hartmut Sauer. As promised, we will be providing Lindsay Koob’s program notes for each of these concerts in advance as a way of preparing our readers for the best possible listening experience. Hartmut has been featured in concerts... Read »
Mrs. Haines, Where Are You?
MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TEACHER was Mrs. Haines, a dear old granny who made fifth grade bearable. Every Friday afternoon, she dug out an ancient Victrola and gave us our first tantalizing tastes of the great composers. I’ll never forget a life-changing, rainy-day recess doing jumping-jacks in the classroom to the delicious strains of Mozart’s... Read »
Pleading the Fifth
THEY SAY that the greatest art is often the result of its creator’s deepest pain or personal crisis. For Beethoven, it was his encroaching deafness. For Schubert, it was the ravages of the syphilis that killed him outrageously young. For Gustav Mahler, it was his first close brush with death. He was never a... Read »
