Category: Music

• Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Spoleto Review 2001

  

  “For all the kitsch and Brecht, what I would’ve loved to see was a critique of this dopey and insulting take on women….”

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Opera, Symphony, Theater

  2001, Manon Lescaut, Puccini, Spoleto

• Music in Time, Spoleto Review 2001

  

  Conductor John Kennedy and Pianist Sarah Cahill, and others, team up for an amazing Spoleto performance of contemporary classical music. (Photo credit — hinnk — of Ms. Cahill performing at Berkeley Art Museum.)

  S.E. Barcus

  Music, Piano

  Asian piano, Music in Time, review, Ruth Crawford Seegar, Sarah Cahill, Spoleto

• Spoleto Festival 2001 Preview

  

  2001 Spoleto Festival Preview. From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives.

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Opera, Piano, Symphony, Theater

  2001, Charleston, Dido, Joffrey Ballet, Philip Glass, Ping Chong, Royal Shakespeare Company, Spoleto

• Stephen Sondheim’s Company, Piccolo Spoleto Festival Preview

  

  The musical “Company,” by Stephen Sondheim, is being revived by the Footlight Players for Piccolo Spoleto due to its outstanding success in January. “Company” is considered a “concept” musical due to its non-linear form of storytelling. It washes over you with a collage of relationships, giving you a better understanding of what it’s like to…

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Opera, Theater

  Charleston, Company, Footlight Players, Piccolo Spoleto, review, Sondheim

• Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Piccolo Spoleto Festival Review

  

  Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” was made for “firsts”, it seems. The concert at the Angel Oak last weekend marked the first time the 1,400-year-old tree has been used as a venue by Piccolo Spoleto, and the first time the Charleston Ballet Theater has performed their magnum opus to live music.” From the S.E. Barcus Charleston…

  S.E. Barcus

  Dance, Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Symphony

  Charleston Ballet, Charleston Symphony, Piccolo Spoleto, review, Rite of Spring, Stravinsky

• Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, Review

  

  Review of Charleston Stage Company’s 2000 production of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes”. From S.E. Barcus’ Charleston City Paper archives.

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Opera, Theater

  Anything Goes, Charleston, Charleston Stage Company, Cole Porter, Julian Wiles

• Dido and Aeneas, Spoleto Festival Preview

  “This ‘jewel’, as Director Chen Shi-Zheng calls it, is the first important English opera ever written, standing somewhere in time — in 1689 — between the operas of Monteverdi and Gluck.” From S.E. Barcus’ Charleston City Paper archives.

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Opera, Symphony, Theater

  Charleston, Dido, Dido and Aeneas, Spoleto

• Kurt Weill’s Die Bürgschaft, Spoleto Festival Preview

  

  Spoleto presents Kurt Weill’s Die Burgschaft, preview. From the S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Opera, Symphony, Theater

  Burgschaft, Charleston, Opera, Spoleto, Weill

• Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Piccolo Spoleto Festival Preview

  

  Piccolo Spoleto presents Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, preview. From the S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.

  S.E. Barcus

  Dance, Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Symphony

  Chalreston, Charleston Symphony, Piccolo Spoleto, Rite of Spring, Stravinsky

• Music of 1930’s Berlin, Spoleto Festival Preview

  

  “Berlin at the end of the Great War was a city filled with brilliant, young, inflamed, and rebellious minds who wanted the destruction of an invalid past.” From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives.

  S.E. Barcus

  Music, Symphony

  1930s Berlin, Arnold Schoenberg, Charleston, Kurt Weill, Spoleto