- 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
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 […]
Georgia not on his mind
March 2, 2008 – 8:35 am
When I was living in Savannah, I often listened to Terrance McKnight on Georgia Public Broadcasting based in Atlanta. His show was called “Studio GPB” and it featured everything from Atlanta Symphony Orchestra broadcasts to live recordings from the Savannah Music Festival to acoustically perfect recitals at Spivey Hall in suburban ATL.
Far from your basic […]
Jax Symphony’s director axed. Surprised? Nope.
February 15, 2008 – 10:56 am
Is it really any wonder that Alan Hopper, the executive director of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, announced he was leaving?
The news comes a month after his administration led a nine-week lockout of the orchestra’s musicians, a lockout that was clearly intended to force musicians to accept a series of pay cuts over the next five […]
Review: CSO and Dixieland
February 11, 2008 – 4:52 pm
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra performed with the Dukes of Dixieland on Saturday. Our ever-present critic Lindsay Koob, newly freed from his email travails, sent us this review of the performance. —JS
After a steady diet of highbrow music lately from the Charleston Symphony, it seemed a welcome change of pace to catch my first McCrady’s Pops […]
Your Daily Vid: The Jackie Chan of the Piano
February 7, 2008 – 9:51 am
This is Lang Lang, one of the most charismatic pianists performing today. In fact, his charisma, and the over-the-top flamboyance of pianists like him, was the subject of a piece on the New York Times yesterday. Basically, Bernie Holland says the classical music equivalent of shut up and play yer guitar. I think it might […]
Review: CofC’s Chas. Music Fest
February 3, 2008 – 8:07 pm
The College of Charleston presented a series of concerts last week for its annual Music Festival. Lindsay Koob had been looking forward to it all year, but was able to make only one of three concerts on Friday night. He sent us this review. — J.S.
One of Chucktown’s chief musical blessings these days is the […]
Check out NMC’s music
January 29, 2008 – 10:21 am
You can hear an mp3 of the New Music Collective’s new CD here. Just a friendly reminder from your friendly neighborhood fan of new classical music —J.S.
The Lego turns 50
January 28, 2008 – 8:57 am
It’s the 50th anniversary of Lego’s. How many hours have I spent building imaginary creations with this wonderful toy? Countless. Since its invention in Copenhagen on Jan. 28, 1958, the company has made a staggering 400 billion Lego elements, or 62 bricks for every person on the planet. Lego’s influence is so pervasive that even […]
Review: CSO Backstage Pass
January 26, 2008 – 5:42 pm
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra gave another Backstage Pass concert at the Sottile on Friday night. Lindsay Koob was having a bad day before he got there and filed this review. —J.S.
Welcome, Louise
CSO’s new principal cellist struts her stuff
By Lindsay Koob
Friday was an utterly rotten day for me — that is, until I got to the […]
An industry in denial
January 25, 2008 – 9:58 am
That would be the music biz. Ever since the first Napster took stage in the 1990s, the industry hasn’t been able to figure how to make money in the Digital Age. The only thing it’s learned to do well is sue people — lots of people. Meanwhile, CD sales plummeted (no surprise) last year, far […]
