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The Arts

The Arts

The Arts, including literature, music, visual arts, poetry, and music.
  • Yuriy Bekker conducts the College of Charleston Orchestra during a rehearsal.
    Bradley Fuller
    “A Charleston Celebration” at the world-renowned venue on Wednesday, February 26th will feature the College of Charleston Orchestra, Charleston Symphony, and Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra performing works showcasing the unique musical legacy of the South Carolina city and its ties to New York.
  • Bridging divides? The Arthur Ravenel Jr., Bridge in Charleston connects the peninsula with Mt. Pleasant. While the Charleston area Republican electorate varies ideologically, in general, from other parts of the state, it nevertheless is part of what makes the state party so representative of the national party.
    David Martin
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    Unsplash
    This week we’ll be talking with former poet laureate of South Carolina, Marjory Wentworth about her new collection of poems entitled One River, One Boat (Evening Post Books, 2024). This collection of occasional poems and essays includes those written about heartbreaking and joyous times in South Carolina’s history and Wentworth’s own life including the deaths of relatives, gubernatorial inaugurations, the Mother Emmanuel AME massacre, Hurricane Hugo, and more.
  • The keyboard instrument’s collaborative side is set to be showcased in a range of performances at this year’s BravoPiano! Festival, presented by the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.
  • The renowned bassist and rising violinist prepare to take the stage at Johnson Hall on Saturday for a performance featuring a duo the father-son team wrote together and other selections of a not-quite-so-classical sort—including fiddle tunes.
  • The original version of Edmund Thornton Jenkins’ Lowcountry-inspired orchestral rhapsody is set to be performed for the first time in the composer’s home state on Saturday, part of a Gaillard Center presentation culminating the Colour of Music Festival's Black History Month Concert Series.
  • Musicians from the University of South Carolina's Wind Ensemble and Experimental Music Workshop are set to sonically transform the museum for the premiere of a "poetic recreation of natural environments" by composer Michael Pisaro-Liu.
  • The 22-year-old pianist and Honens prizewinner is back in South Carolina, excited for the chance to take on two formidable piano concertos in a single program.
  • Like it or not, performers can’t help evaluating performance, especially in the cases of pieces we know or instruments we play.
  • It’s often easier to say what classical music is not, than to say what it is.
  • Most of what brass players do is done with the lips, and it’s invisible to us.
  • In the bad old days of symphony orchestras in this country, music directors were absolute dictators, and orchestra musicians had few protections. If a music director woke up in a bad mood and decided to fire an orchestra musician on the spot, he could… never mind that it might instantly deprive that musician of his livelihood.
  • In the bad old days of symphony orchestras in this country, music directors were absolute dictators, and orchestra musicians had few protections. If a music director woke up in a bad mood and decided to fire an orchestra musician on the spot, he could… never mind that it might instantly deprive that musician of his livelihood.