- 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
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 […]
Review: CSO’s Shining Soul
January 20, 2008 – 5:29 pm
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra gave its first Mastersworks concert of the new year last night. Lindsay Koob checked it out and sent us this review. —J.S.
A pretty fair crowd braved Saturday’s wintry blast to attend “Shining Souls,” the Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s first Masterworks concert of the New Year at the Gaillard.
On the menu was a […]
Jax on the mend, now Columbus wobbles
January 18, 2008 – 10:36 am
The day after reports came out that the management of the Jacksonville Symphony had ended its nine-week lock-out of its musicians, a new report came out today about a symphony of comparable size in Ohio proposing cut backs to its orchestral musicians.
The administration of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra unveiled a plan yesterday to downsize the […]
More on the Jax deal
January 17, 2008 – 10:12 am
The Florida Times-Union, the daily newspaper in Jacksonville, also came under fire during the nine-week lockout of the Jacksonville Symphony’s musicians, with charges being made that the publisher has relationships in the business community that discouraged more aggressive coverage. Even so, today’s coverage is pretty solid. It includes this video of the new five-year agreement. […]
Journal: An old interview with Herbie Hancock
January 11, 2008 – 12:27 pm
From an interview I did a while back for the Sacramento News & Review —J.S. |
After nearly 40 years of composing, performing and recording masterpieces of the American music canon, jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock is unquestionably a singular icon, a living legend.
Hancock was a pianist for five years in one of the great jazz ensembles, […]
Your Daily Vid: Gustavo Dudamel
January 8, 2008 – 12:59 pm
He’s 26 years old and he’s the next music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Here, he talks about his experience in Venezuela’s El Sistema, the hugely successful government-sponsored program that serves some 250,000 schoolchildren in that country.
This talk occurred before a concert at the BBC Proms broadcast last year by the Simon Bolivar […]
