Category: Music

• Music in Time, Spoleto’s Contemporary Classical Music Showcase, a Preview

  2001 Archives My interview with John Kennedy. Every Spoleto, I was most reliably excited by Kennedy’s curated contemporary classical music series. For this year, 2001, we got to hear music by Ruth Crawford Seeger, in honor of her centennial, including Nine Preludes for Piano, Music for Small Orchestra, and Three Songs, as well as some…

  S.E. Barcus

  Music, Piano, Symphony

  John Kennedy, Music in Time, Philip Glass, Sarah Cahill, Seeger, Spoleto

• Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, Spoleto Festival Preview

  

  Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, preview. From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Opera, Theater

  Charleston, Laurie Anderson, Moby Dick, Spoleto Festival

• Age and Sex Trends of Contemporary Classical Music Composers, Using Current Popularity Data

  

  This study determined which contemporary classical music (CCM) composers were more popular amongst avid consumers of CCM, when categorized as either: alive or dead;  young or old; and female or male.

  S.E. Barcus

  Music, Other

  age, classical music, composer, contemporary, popularity, sex