Category: Symphony
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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….”
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Spoleto Festival 2001 Preview
2001 Spoleto Festival Preview. From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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