- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Music
Update on David Reader
May 15, 2008 – 12:03 pm
The NBC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas, ran this story on David Reader, the 26-year-old principal cellist of the Augusta Symphony Orchestra who was shot to death Sunday. Augusta police arrested Tuesday a 16 year old in connection with his death and are still looking for a second suspect. The TV news station reports that Reader […]
Talented cellist shot to death in Augusta
May 13, 2008 – 3:30 pm
David Reader, the talented 26-year-old principal cellist of the Augusta Symphony Orchestra, was shot to death Sunday. He was found in his car with two gunshots wounds to the chest.
The engine was still running and his cello was in the backseat. Police have since identified a suspect in what they now think was a drug […]
Fuck the Board of Directors
May 12, 2008 – 9:51 am
We don’t know what expletive Junichi Hirokami used to describe his board of directors. But it’s not hard to guess. The New York Times talked to the music director of the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra and got his two cents on the news that the orchestra will shut down June 1.
Increasing financial pressure has frayed […]
Columbus (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra Shutting Down and What That Means for Solving Problems the Arts Face in America (Hint: Not Much)
May 9, 2008 – 10:04 am
Symphony orchestras became institutions in the last century. Now it seems like they’ve been around forever and will be around forever. But that’s not so. Check out the sad news in Columbus, Ohio, one of the largest cities in the Midwest. The head of its orchestra announced yesterday that it was shuttering its summer programming […]
Carolina Chocolate Drops change venues to add more seats
April 25, 2008 – 10:03 am
The 9 p.m. performance by the Carolina Chocolate Drops on June 4-5 will be relocated to the Cistern at the College of Charleston in order to accommodate increased demand to see the popular trio specializing in traditional African-American string music from the Piedmont.
The 6 p.m. performances will still be at the Recital Hall at the […]
Review: CSO presents more gold than korn
March 31, 2008 – 8:59 am
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra presented its concertmaster for the first time Saturday. Lindsay Koob says it was a grand performance. He sent us this review.
Last Saturday’s Visions Cinématiques program at the Gaillard — the latest in the Charleston Symphony’s Masterworks series — offered a feast of incredibly colorful and evocative music, plus the welcome chance […]
Perhaps changes in the music industry aren’t so bad after all
March 27, 2008 – 8:14 am
The whole structure of the music industry is in flux. Old news, right? Once music went digital and once that digital information starting becoming disseminated exponentially via interconnectivity, that was it. No more control and thus no more profit. The gatekeepers were out of work, though they might not know it. There’s got to be […]
Countersuit in legal battle in which record company alleges 7-year-old girl downloaded ‘Shake That Ass Bitch’
March 26, 2008 – 8:32 am
From The Chronicle of Higher Education . . .
A legal battle that began nearly three years ago when the Recording Industry Association of America sued a 7-year-old girl for allegedly downloading pirated music has wound up raising questions about the legality of the industry group’s investigative tactics. Now the case is entering a new chapter […]
Two contemporary music groups — one local, one not — at Redux Contemporary Art tonight
March 21, 2008 – 9:43 am
From a press release — JS
Red Light New Music and the New Music Collective | Friday, March 21 @ 9 p.m.
$10/$5 Students
Redux Contemporary Art Center
136 St. Philip Street, Charleston, SC
www.redlightnewmusic.org
www.newmusiccollective.org
www.reduxstudios.org
In the second concert of our Spring Season at Redux Studios, the NMC is happy to welcome sister organization RED LIGHT NEW MUSIC […]
Losing an orchestra for the right reasons
March 16, 2008 – 11:11 am
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra has gone through some rough patches but seems stable now. Meanwhile, orchestras in Jacksonville, Columbus, Ohio, and Shreveport, La., have gone and are going through crises that should be closely watched by lovers of the CSO. We should watch them not out of fear of losing our orchestra due to historic […]
